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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
NEW SETTLERS
FOR HYDE co.
Our Western Neighbors Also OBJ
tanning New People

Highmore Herald: Over rs cars
of immigrants have arrived since
Jan. lst. Not since the days of 1888
and has Hyde county seen such an
influx of people. Then it was class
of people who were attracted by the
inducement of free homes General
ly this class of people were unac-
quainted with the conditions existing
at that time and the result was that
in few years all had left who could
get away and South Dakota received
a black eye. There were those how
ever who stayed and have built up
comfortable homes whice are monu-
ments to the prosperity of the coun-
try. This existing condition has at
tracted thousands of land seekers
from the east. These people see
demonstrated in forceful way the
possibilities and are embracing
the opportunities to better their con-
ditions by buying land and establish
ing new homes. They are the class
that's coming to South Dakota.
They are class better fixed financi-
ally, than the pioneers. The one
class was attracted by free lands
which were untried and undevelop-
ed. The other, by lands which could
be purchased much below those of
the eastern states, and which have
been demonstrated just as fertile.
Today we see scores of new houses
where year or two ago nothing was
visible excep. the home OF the sturdy
pioneer who would not down. With
the experience of the early day set
tiers as a guide the new ones may
forge ahead and reap prosperity ac-
cording to their ability and economy
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
FOR LAFOLLETTE
OR ROOSEVELT
Republican Factions Locating
Each Other

Sometime ago Senator LaFollette
spoke at Miller. He was introduce
by the the private secretary of Gov
ernor Crawford as the the next pres
ident of the United States. Is it
likely that Governor Crawford's pri-
vate secretary would have gone so
far without consulting his chief
Sioux Falls Argus.
Pierre, S. ID. 1t was not at Miller
but here in Pierre where | had the
honor and pleasure of introducing
Senator LaFollett to the audience
when he was here and delivered his
lecture on Representative Govern
ment" to the people of this city and
vicinity.
What | said on that occasion, anent
the matter referred to in an editorial
was the following: II have two
times voted for him for governor of
Wisconsin, and if his only peer
among American statesmen, our
illustrious chief executive at Wash
ington, should persist in his refusal
to serve the American people in his
present capacity, after the expira-
ton of his present term, should be
delighted to cast my vote for him
once more John l.. Erickson.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
FARMER WILSON
ON THE CROPS
Secretary Wilson Thinks all Will
be Well

Chicago, Ill, May Z. The reports
of damage to crops which have been
so numerous of late owing to the
unreasonable weather and the raw
ages of bugs have been greatly ex-
agerated according to James Wilson
secretary of agriculture, who was in
Chicago last night. When asked
last night for his opinion on the COM
ing crop of grain Mr. Wilson said:
Spring seeding is little back
ward on account of the cold weather
There is plenty of time between now
and the last of September to grow
crops of all kinds of grain. In the
states of Minnesota and the Dakotas
where we get much of our spring
wheat, seeding has been delayed for
about two weeks but with few
days of warm sunshine, planting will
be in full progress. While the
weather has been unSeaSonably cold
in some districts, still it has not been
severe enough to retard blowing and
my advices are that the ground in
these states has been nearly all made
ready to receive the seed. We will
have warm weather in few days
now and | don't see what is to pre-
vent a normal crop of spring wheat
in these states. AS regards the
Canadian northwest, the claims
being made that this years harvest
will be seriously diminished may
have some foundation. According
to what | consider authentic adj
vices from that section Of the coun-
try, the weather has been so cold
that blowing has been almost inpos-
Sible -
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
SUMMER SHOWS
FREAK WEATHER
All Records Broken by Eccentric
Weather

The study of weather records has
been topic of interest for the past
few weeks all over the country. and
taxes the genius of old timers to pro-
duce an equal of the recent freakish
weather.
All through April, rain, snow, and
cold waves were reported through
out the country, injuring fruit and
delaying farm work.
The first week of May brought no
change, and reports of snow are
common. On May 4th newspapers
announce heavy blanket of snow
over northern Ohio.
Locally the SHOWS Of May have few
if and equal in the memory of the
oldest inhabitant. On May 4th some
five or six inches of snow fell in Cen
trial South Dakota, all disappearing
by night.
Again or May 7th, Tuesday of this
week, something like five or six
inches again came down. 1t was
warm and wet and soon went into
the ground.
So far very little damage is re-
ported in Hand county, because
nearly all early small grain had been
sown during April, but in Minnesota
North Dakota and Wisconsin, a
great deal of the crop is not yet in.
These late SHOWS have also extend
ed further south to Iowa and Nebras-
ka.
As stated last week the nearest
record to this spring was that of
1888, twenty four years ago, when
rain, snow and cold weather continu-
ed into May. There may be some
consolation in remembering the
gre at crops of that year.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
EAST SIDE
,From Washington Times

Mr.. Shinkle who at one time lived
near Burdette, was recently killed
by being kicked by horse.
1t is reported that number of ar,
tesian wells have been contracted for
in the vicinity of Sand Creek.
Mr. and Mrs o. T. Fuller of Madi.
son S. d. have been visiting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs Andrew
Thompson north of town. Mrs Full
Ter is sister of Mrs Thompson.
The saddest event last week was
the death of Lillian Margaret Geiv-
err, aged eleven months and one day.
The child suffered for some time,
death relieving the little one last
Saturday evening April q 1907.
Several head of cattle have died
with black leg, and it is though il
will be necessary to use vaccination
points.
Mr. Cramer of Burdette arrived
from the east recently with his new
ly wed wife. Mr.. Cramer will build
a dwelling near Burdette.
Miss Jennie Jones who has been
sick for some time has improved suf.
ficiently to resume her duties as a
school teacher and will finish the
term.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
ROAD MAKING
NOW POPULAR

Iroquois Chief: The new grader
for the town arrived Friday and was
at once set up and given trial under
the direction of man sent out by
the firm that makes the machine.
1t worked smoothly and accomplish
ed all that was claimed to do and the
board accepted it. With this ma
chine the streets of the town can be
put in passable and presentable shape
and kept in that econdition. The
first work was done on the north
side, where a new road was made
from the virgin soil forty feet wide
and a block and a half long, the
work being accomplished In three
hours,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
NEW r. R. SHOPS
BEGIN AT HURON

Huronite: Building material for
the new shops, roundhouse and
other improvements to be made at
the North western yards is arriving
by the car load. There were fifteen
cars Of the material to be unloaded
in the yards Thursday night. II
will not be long until the new inn
provements will begin 70 assume de-
finate shape. When visitors come
to Huron in the hereafter we can
take them to the orth-Western
shops here and show then something
worth seeing.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
PIERRE TO RAPID
ON JULY 4TH

Pierre, May A Papers published
along the line of the grade between
here and Rapid City, say different
grading outfits are closing up their
work and getting ready to pull out
to other lines where they have con.
tracts; and that the work of grading
will all be complete by the first of
June. This will leave only the bridge
work to delay the the track laying
from that on, and it is possible that
trains will be running from Fort
Pierre to Rapid City by the 4th OF
July.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
MANY NEW
SCHOOL MARMS

Over half a hundred youngsters
of the county took the 9Th grade
examination last week, which, under
present regulations would produce
many new teachers. The new school
law, however, which goes into effect
July LIST, requires that ali teachers
be at least Is years of age, and many
of The 9Th graders will have to wait
some time before they can qualify.
The teachers of the county will
meet Saturday in the court house
for an indoor picnic.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
Marvin Boy Found

Mondays papers contain the an
nouncement that the body of Horace
Marvin was found lying in swamp
near his home in Delaware. This is
the young son of DR.. Marvin thought
to have been stolen some time ago.
1t was not certain whether the boy
wandered there, or had been muir
dered.
DR.. Marvin. until recently owned
farm near Blunt. and was vel
known to E. F. Waite, Of the Hand
County State Bank.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Salaries, except police S So 90
HOllce ........ ........ 2Uo w
| WaterwOrks. ........... 500 q
Streets. .1SOt 30
Printing and Advertising 30 80
Lights. .............. 3d. 81
SundrleS $500. ...... 40 90
Interest go. ............. 405 A
Total ..,..............36 1888 81
Thus leaving a balance of the
September app ropri a t o n
amounting TO $4,000 to carry
on the administration of the city
for the present 8 month term
ending September 1st., 1907.
STREETS
There is still considerable ce-
ment work connected by board
crossings, but most Of these
crossings are at present in good
repair.
A large part of the board
walk thruout the city is in need
of repair and unless the Council
deem it best to order cement
walks, | would recommend that
the street commissioner repair
the present board walks.
Notwithstanding great care
was taken last year to have the
cement work well, done, the COM
ing of spring shows quite Il per-
centage of it to be faulty. This
will no doubt be made good by
the parties who constructed it:
but when one sees what appears
at first to be good walks turn
out faulty after a few months
exposure and wear. one is con
strained to ask, is there no way
of getting all our walks con-
structed as good as the best we
have: Can we not get all of
them hard and stone. like?
Where shall we place the fault?
TO the want of skill in work
manship or to the quality of ma
terial used? The same material
used apparently under the same
conditions has made good walk
in, one place and poor in another.
The same workmen who have
made some of the poorest walk
have also made some of our
best.
Last summer the city put in
two crossings, one from the
Miller to the Lewis corner and
one from the Lewis to the Butts
corner. Considerable more &C.
ment was used in the one from
the Butts to the Lewis corner
than in the other. but it is diff
cult to say which is the better
crossing; both are excellent, Il
should say perfect. IL is true
these crossings cost more than
those put in by contract but on.
ly very little.
| would recommend that the
city offer to put in all cement
sidewalks charging enough to
pay actual cost and enough
more to create fund to make a
five or ten year guarantee Of rea-
sonably good walks. And in
case the city should decide to
sublet any contracts it may have
for putting in walks, it shall re-
quire the party to whom such
contracts are sublet to pay the
city one cent per square foot for
such contracts and to wait one
CONTINUED on page AZ
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Bandits attempted to hold up the
Northern Pacific coast limited train
near Butte Tuesday. The engineer
was shot and killed. The robbers
got no money, but escaped. They
are being tracked with blood hounds.
SECRETARY Taft has accepted Sena-
tor Kittredge's invitation to visit
Sioux Falls June 18th.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
Presbyterian Church

Rev. G. Howard CRUDE, Pastor.
Preaching service every Sunday
morning at IL and next Sunday in
ST. Lawrence at 500 P. M,
Sunday Bible School at l1:30 in st
Lawrence and at IL m. in Miller.
Church prayer meeting every
Thursday evening at Miller at 500
Christian Endeavor each place
every Sunday evening at 100.
All are cordially invited to attend
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
Late News Briefs

Eight men were shot in a street
car strike riot at San Francisco Tues
day.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

As Shown by the Auditors report
the following expenditures were
made during the LIST 6 months of the
official year ending March LIST, 1907.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Services at the Christian church
next Sunday, morning and evening
by the pastor Rev. Swartwood.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

September app 70 pr a I o n
amounting to $4,000 to carry
on the administration of the city
for the present & month term
ending September lst., 1907.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
John Marshall HarLan
 Thirty Years on the Bench
By AVOYARD

tslls volumes for the character and the learning and the purity of the men who have been elevated to that bench. and has entered Into the selection of more than three score Juuges who. have worn that ermine. Nay. Marshall himself, tn 6 politics snd sd;uasss s' the sagtutss os free people, got his place on the bench for his politics. Gen. Grant made two men judges of that court to get de- tender under tho Constitution.
 John Randolph of Ronoke was as brilliant a man as ever sat in political Livy and Tacitus wrote and are lost: the circumstances that Macaulay, Thack- cray. and Dickens fell in their prime. ana these ere we're ealamitiss sre to istssrs ancient and modern. But there was a man named Niles, who reported the American Congressional debates some 100 years ago. and he took it on himself to exersise a censorship on American forensic eIoquence and refused to re- port so1ne of Randolph's greatest sense sr so1 af ne sions of that wonderfully scintillating and luminous mind. John Stuart Mill's maid aaasS e Tss Gnlvas tss French Revolution" .puppy--or was 1t a kitten ?--destroyed an immense labor of Issac Newton. Such was Niles. of the Register.
 When Jefferson got to be President, Randolph was his most trusted counse. Tor, and of all men Jefferson most dis trusted Marshall. and 1t is a curious fact of family tree that these three came from a common ancestor. a Randolph, not three generations remote. Robert E. Lee traced his line to the same source. When Jefferson was inaugural ed there was not a State that did not hold that its legislature was the judge of q controversy between the Sfate and the Union, and that idea was especially rampant in Massachusetts. As late as 1874 1t possessed New England. as is observed in the proceedings of the Hartford convention.
 Not so was Marshan's view. He held
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
HARTMAN TACTICS.
Seeks to Escape Prosecution by Pro. posing to Gle up Control of Seuth.
 ern Pacific.

Seeks to Escape Prosecution by Pro.
 posing to Gle up Control of Seuth.
 ern Pacific.
 washington Special to Chicago Trib.
 une.
 Negotiations are under way betweer the Attorney General and F. H. Harri. man looking to an agreement by which the union Pacific will abandon all ftI direct control of the Southern PacifiS m return for which the government VIII agree not to prosecute B. H. liar. Tlman Tor violation of the -trus, law and of the competitie clauses in iaW and Of the competitive law. The ne- gotiations have not actually been con cluded, but they have reached d sfage be entered into. VI
 The Southern Pacific Is to be or- ganlzed as separate corporation ana the union Pacific either will take over the old Central Pacific line from Oe. den to San, Francisco, or else v,SiI operate 1t as a through line as nar- mitted to do so by law
 rhe holding company organizad tv MT. Harrfnlan and his friends to faka over the stock of the Santa Fe ana S.n Pacific probably will continue out the direct community of interest between the Union Pacific and It's com peLIng lines will be stopped.
 whether this agreement not to pros. ecute MT Hartman and MT. Harri- man agreement to keep up at least a semblance of open competition hs. tween the ans-contfnentaI iinas h. controls will result in any bensft 1o fhe public is doubtful, but technicsliS cured. AS @e
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15

In round numbers. without exact com. putatfon of months and days, six tn- dividuals have served on the United ty wears each. Bushrod Washington. of Virginia. appointesi by John Adams m 179s. was on the bench thirty one years John Marshall. of vir rsinia. Hs alsS appoint51 appoint thirty-four years. Joseph Storey. of Massachusetts. appointed by James Madison in 1S11. remained in that sta appointed by John Quincy Adams in 1928, was on the bench as long after. ward as 1861. James N. Wayne, of oeorgia. appointed by Andrsw An ,Ss Jack, Jack. until 1887. stephen J. Field, of califor- mia, appointed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, did not retire until 1897. His was shall's by few weeks. Marshairs ex- sssdias wa stSSreys soSnsyon sz of soutS appointed by Thomas Jefferson in 1894.
 John Marshall Harien. of Kentucky. was appointed by R. B. Hayes in 1877. and is yet on the bench, after more hanhood man % at sevsnty-four. and with . splendid mental virility. not yet out of it's prime. And 1t is not hazardous vigorous in mind and strong in body. will be dispensing justice from that tribunal. which he has so lopg graced. ten years hence.
 Though the bar of Kentucky. for the first 100 years of the republic. ranked with the bar of any other state in character and learning, but three Kentuckians have been appointed to the Supreme ,bencb-Todd in 1907 and Trimble in 1926, preceding Harlan. On the other hand, Ohio, @ younger State. has supplied the Supreme bench with six members. two of thsm Chies Justices.
 Constitution confers on the Supreme Court "the judicial power" The Judic- iary of no other people allow 1t to the ii is A vast and 6 dangerous power. and the wonder is that 1t has not wrecked this country. That it is not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
SHAKING OFF OPIUM.

Shanghai, China. Dec. il.-strikins evidence that modern enlightened Chi. na is really throwing off the trarnmeIs Of the opium curse has been given at Hangchow. where delighted crowds watched the blazing of the two hure bonfires built of opium-smoking i'm. plements.
 When the decree ordering the clos. ing of every opium den had been en- forced all the pipes and trays used in the dens Were collected in the chtef square of the city. and piled up in two huge pyramids. Ten thousand pipes composed one pyramid, seven feet hffrh. and the pyramid of trays was ttree times that size. The piles were satu- rated with petroleum, and surrounded by dry straw. and-they were kuarded by soldiers.
 A mandarin. with due ceremouy ap- piled torch to the piles and the flames were greeted with cheers by the thou- sands of citizens who crowded the square. Even the opium smokers themselves were largely represented in the crowd which witnessed the crema- tlon of the Poppy Demon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15

= It is pleasing. to note that after
 Harlan got on the supreme bench ne was instrumental in having. the dis onsrss. of for smns nis the Southern side of the war.
 And now, came troublous times. and troublous in MIssatp Kentucky nan Iata as midsummer 1881. nen--honest, sincere. patriotic. noble. willing to fight and to die for belief--changea in poll, revolution. John M Harlan became Union soldier. colonel of the Tenth Hsnson HKsnsSSky vent anIany South % eoionsi of ne Second Kentucky Infantry, though ne was a bitter and an eloquent UnIon man a very little time rnara earlier: natriotic @ than Hanson? The bigot and the fooi:
 KAntucky's heart was southern; ner head was Union. It vas father a agahinss hnss opposed one another on many strick- CT, field Al Murfreesboro the/twenty- first Kentucky Federal Regiment met and grappled with tn the ,s S'xsa sa hSdS hsondy z battle as the war afforded. ana Kinoreo
 In 1868 Harlan. after gallant service. hisiasa his father.sO ~ estsse, who had just died. and was that year elected attorney zen. eral of the Commonwealth. station that his father had died years carrier. In ls67s political Kentucky was again in a state of chaos. The State nad welcomed the returned confederates with opened arms and killed~the fatteo calf. Now they did more---the state nominated them for of1ce, and elected them. loo. yrxentuclxy was the "Confed- crit Cross-roads" :" and as rebeiHous as d condition short of war could De.
 There were three parties-the Democ- racy, the Republicans, and third class. very select sand very exclusive. Tnese were eco loyal to be Democrats and too respectable to be. Republicans. They nominated Sa ticket. George P; .a .Pren- tice said they were the "calico" party. Old Frank Wolford called them the 'cow -colored" party. Harlan Joined IT, as did Bramlette; but the next year. 1868, Harlan became Republican anu Bramlette a Democrat.
 Harlan went to Louisville and was one of the first lawyers at the bar. In political campaigns he went on the stump and was pretty nearly unrivaleo in that capacity. In 1871 he was nom mated for governor, and the things ne did to old man Leslie the Democratic were cruelty and torture. Four years later he was the opposing candidate to McCreary, who: ey sneer pluck, stood up to him, discomnting him at Munfordville.
 And yet do believe the John M.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15

Not so was Marshan's view. He held