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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-08-15
DAMAGE BY STORM.
Lives Are Lost and Crops in Many
Places Are Ruined


TWENTY-FIVE lives are reDorted to
have been lost and property damaged to
the amount of 100000 in tornado
which swept over the southern part of
Minnesota, northern Iowa, the south
western end Of Wisconsin and a part
of Illinois Dispatches tell of deaths
in almost every point where the tornado
struck
\ farmer. his wife and son We're kill
ed near Mason City, Iowa. their home
being destroyed over their heads while
they were in bed. Two coaches of a
Green Bay. Wis, passenger train were
thrown over IN embankment near Wi
mona, Mimi. and three men were Sc
verely injured The wind reached a
velocity of about ninety miles an hour
and was accompanied byo terrific rain
and lightning The village of Joice,
Iowa, was wyecked by the wind and
one person Killed and many injured.
Twenty or mtre buildings were I'M
rooted. At NarshalltOwn severe
windstorm, accompanied by hail. lev
eled corn, blew down loaded fruit trees
and did much pther damage. Shipping
at Clear Lake and many cottages were
destroyed. \ htlf dozen barns and four
houses near R0 kwell were demolished,
and the roof Was blown from the Cath
Ollie church at Rockwell Many houses
we're destroyedin Winona and the roofs
were torn Off twenty large factory
buildings. The lighting plant was
wrecked, leavitg the town in darkness.
The power htuse of the local street
car company Eas put out of commits
sion. The carl in the streets We're over
turned, and ne of them was carried
against the SHE of a store. Fronts of
the stores wele blown in and the wind
carried all kinds of stock from the
shelves and cSlnters.
A severe hallstorm practically devas-
tated the corr crop in the western
townships of Peoria county, ILL.,, and
the east tier Of townships in Knox
county. IIaihtOneS twelve inches in
circumferencefcut the blades from the
corn as keenlyas if the stalks bad been
trimmed witlia knife. Thirty thousand
acres of cornis completely ruined. The
loss is eStimated at $l,O0O,0OO to corn
alone in Peoria and Knox counties. A
fifty-tive mile an hour wind blew dur
ing the storm. The large hailstoneS
broke hundrpds of windows and the
strong wind uprOOtcd trees and moved
farm hOusesl and barns from their
foundations.
At Havana ILL.,. Miss Margaret Lem
niger 16-yeatOld daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Leininger of Mason City,
is dead, the result of being struck by
lightning during the storm. At Pana,
Ill.,, lightning killed Frank Henderson
and Frank McMulen. Property valued
at $4,000 was destroyed. Corn was
stripped by the heavy hail, barns burn
ed. and hay stacks thrown over the
fields. A terrific electrical storm, ac-
companied by Gclone, passed over
Litchfeld, ILL.,. lprooting trees and
causing much da page to buildings and
crops.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-08-15

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1214-French defeated the Germans at
Bouvines.
12GJ-Simon de Montfort killed at the
battle of Evesham.
1201-Founding of the Swiss Confedera-
ton.
149S-Columbus discovered Trinidad.
1554-Florentines defeated the French
at Marciano.
1G19-IIouse of Burgesses, first popular
legislative assembly in America, met
at jamestown, Va.
lG43-Cromwell victorious at Gains
borough.
1G4HConde victor at Friodburg,
1G67-Endng of the war between France
and Great Britain.
167J-Turenne killed at Sassbach.
1GS5-Marquis de Dononville entered on
his duties of Governor of Canada.
16S9-Battle of Killiecrankie.
1694-Bank of England chartered.
lTJ7-French and Indians besieSed Fort
William Henry, in New York.
1159-Montcalm repulsed Wolfe in the
latter's attack on Quebec.
1772-First partition of Poland.
l775-Contincntal congress adopted ar
ticles of war.
l111-Lafayctte made a major general
in the American army.
f7S0-Maj Gen Benedict Arnold assum-
o1 nd p1
Sumter repulsed by British at Rocky
Mount, S. c.
1194-Fall of Robespierre and end of the
Reign of Terror.
1799-Ferdinand w. of Naples restored.
1SO4-American naval force bombarded
Tripol.
1SO5-Francis l. of Austria declared war
against France.
1SO9-Battle of Talavera.
1S13-Plattsburg n. Y, taken by the
British.
1S16-First State election held in In
diana.
1S1S-Charles, Duke of Richmond, be-
came Governor of Canada.
1S3O-Paris declared in a state of siege.
1S31-London bridge inaugurated by
William w.
1S34-Slavery ceased throughout the
British possessions.
1S47-Telegraph service established be-
tween Toronto, Buffalo and Mon
treal.
1S4S-Woman's rights convention at
Rochester put forward a claim for
suffrage.
1S54-Capt. L. S. Grant resigned his
commission in the army.
1SJS-The Victoria Nyanza discovered
by Capt. Speke.
1SG3-Battle of Winchester, Va.
G4-Chambersburg, Pa. burned by the
Confoderatps. Gen. Sherman began
the siege Of Atlanta. Battle of Mo-
bile Bay.
1SGG-Atlantic telegraph cable COM
pleted.
1S76-CoIorado admitted to the Union.
1SS9-princcsS Louise of Wales married
to the Duke of Fife.
1890 Mississippi constitutional conven-
ton met at Jackson.
1S92-CongrGss appropriated S2,JG0,OOO
to be coined into half dollars as
memorials of the Worlds Columbian
exposition
1S9IWar declared between Japan and
China.
1S0G-Forty-seve persons Killed in rail-
road disaster near Atlantic City,
y. j.
1S97-Tidal wave caused great dcstruc
tion of lives and property in Japan.
19OO-General strike of Paris cab driv-
ers.
19O3-Andrew Carnegie gave S2,J00,0O0
to his native town of Dunfermline,
Scotland.
19O5-The japanese captured the Island
of Saghalin.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-08-15
voLIvA 70 LEAVE ZION.
Says Will Take Big Following and
BuiId New CITY.

Refused the 81 nnting of his petition
that he be appointed by Judge Lands of
the United Statb District Court a CO.
receiver with JON G. IIately, now in
charge of Zion City property, and un
needed in his protests against the sale of
Zion City lace int tustry. Oversoer Wilbur
Glenn Voliva. wh usurped John Alexan-
der Dowie asseNed his defiance of the
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-08-15
orces organi2ed against him and declar.

forces organized against him and declar-
ed he would abandon Zion City and eStab-
lish a colony Of his own elsewhere.
Il shall abandon the old hulk and
she can sink for. all of me-" declared
Voliva as he was leaving the court after
his petition had been denied and the sale
of the lace factory had been ordered.
ut is my purpose now to gather my
followers about me as soon as possible
and leave. When l go l will take a big
following along to establish a new col
onvv
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-08-15
Notes of Current Eyenta.

Women make big hit in Wisconsin as
real hired farm hands"
Secretary Cortelyou is at work pre-
pairing an authorized life of William Nc
kinley.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-24
ANTHRACITE OUTPUT.
Nearly Six Million Tons Less Than in 1906.

December shipments OF anthracite
continue to show a decrease, and
the aggregate for the entire year of
1906, 55,69S, ,5o5, was the smallest
in any year since the strike year of
1902, when the tonnage aggregated
but 81, 800 tons. Compared
with 1905, which was the banner
year in the anthracite coal trade,
with it's aggregate tonnage of 81, :
44o, 2oI tons, there was shrink
age in 1906 of 5,7II,6o6 This
was due in a large measure to a
stoppage Of the mines in parts of
March and April, pending the ad-
justment of the miners grievances,
and later on to the lack of trans
portation facilities. The greatest
decrease in tonnage is shown by
the Lehigh Valley, with a falling
off of 1855, 500 tons, and the Read
ing next, with drcrease of ,324,-
2o7 tons. The Pennsylvania made
the nearest approach to maintain
ing its 1905 tonnage, its aggregate
of 1856, 6,oo4 tons for 1906 being
but 34,63I tons short.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-24

in the path Of the Panama Canal
progress. Considerable ado is be.
ing made over report that there
are no. foundations where the great
Gatun dam will eventually be To-
Gated. Now the Gatun dam will
be the biggest thing of its sort in
the world. 1t is the keystone TO
the whole structure o. a lock canal
across the is,hmus. AT one time
or another covert opponents OF the
Canal scheme have intima.ed that
borings on the south of the propos-
ed dam show no rock foundation,
but only a thin stratum of clay un
deraid by mud. Last week the
Committee on the Canal called for
specific report on this point from
the Isthmian Canal Commission.
The report together with borings
on the spot was transmitted. but
the Commission asked that this in
formation be held as confidential.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-24
ELECTION REFORMS.

Whatever may be the motive for
the movement for an amendment OF
the State Constitution doing away
with the February election, it is one
which will command the approval
Of many citizens regardless of party
affiliations. Too much time and
money are spent in the formalties
attending the choice Of public Off
GERS, and the disturbing effect of
year-lorg electioneering campaigns
is all economic waste that cannot
but be harmful. If all arrangement
could be devised by which munici-
pal. on the one hand, and State and
national elections, on the other,
could be wholly separated, the
chance o. divorcing municipal from
State and national politics would
be greatly increased.
Possibly this can be done, but it
must be obvious that isolated at
tempts to correct defects in our
election machinery are liable to do
more harm than good. A genuine
ballot reform, that will simplify the
duty of the voter at the polls by
eliminating duplication Of names
and abolishing the party square.
is just as vital feature in the pro-
gramme of election legislstion.
Then, too, the operation of the
registration laws, and perhaps af
the uniform primary law, may re-
veal weaknesses and errors hat will
have to be corrected.
A far cetter way of approaching
the problem, and one in accordance
with the new political regime,
would be the appointment Of non
partisan commission to study the
whole question and prepare har-
monious and complete measure for
the consideration of the people. By
this means the suspicion of partisan
advantage that is sure to attach TO
any project fathered by the lead
ers" would be removed, and the
prospect ofreal and lasting reforma.
ton would be immensely greater
than by any tinkering that can be
done by unrelated and inharmoni-
Gus bodies of citizens.
- Phfka. Record.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-24
Other Inaugurations in May.
Henry Houck and Robert X. Young Will Take
Places Then.

The Inauguration of Henry
Houck as secretary OF internal af-
fairs and of Robert K. Young as
auditor general will take place in
May. The time of inauguration
was made different from that of
governor because of desire not to
rave too many changes at once and
because of fiscal arrangements. The
constitution in Article w, Section
2I, prescribed that the secretary
shall serve four years and the au-
ditor general three, the latter, like
the State treasurer, not being eligi-
BILE for reelection. Mr.. Young
will be the thirty second man to be
commissioned auditor general and
the eighteenth to be electe by the
people, as from 1889 to IS45 the
auditors were appointed by the
governor and after 1850 elected.
The constitution created the Office
OF secretary Of internal affairs in
1873 and nine men have been COM
missioned as secretaries, although
the office of surveyor general which
was merged into it, was the oldest
in Pennsylvania being naturally
the most important under the pro
prietary government, formerly es.
tablished under the commonwealth
in 1881 and kept up under the title
until 1875.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-24
Envelopes

$4,000 Envelopes carried in
stock at the COLUMBIAN Office.
The line includes drug envelopes,
pay, coin, baronial, commercial
sizes, number 6, 61z, 6A. 9, 10
and II, catalog, &c. Prices range
from 81. so per 1000 printed, up to
$500. Largest stock in the coun-
ty to select from.
Entrance through Roy's Jewelry
Sore. If
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-24
OPPOSED TO REPEAL OF
VACCINATION LAW.
Or. Dixon Says Legislature Should Let Act
Alone.

Harrisburg, Jan. 23.-When
asked today what he thought of the
agitation to have the Legislature re.
peal the vaccination law, Doctor
Dixon, State Health Commissioner,
said that the records of the past
two weeks in his department should
convince the people of the State
that The only thing they have to do
to have smallpox run riot through
Pennsylvania was to take down the
barriers that are thrown against it
by vaccination.
"A few days ago." said Doctor
Dixon, I'VE received word that
child that had never been vacci.
mated had been brought from Wat
kins, N. Y. to Wells, Bradford
County, and had attended school
in Wells township for three days
and was suffering with smallpox.
"The disease spread rapidly, and
there were striking examples ofthe
penalty for the unvaccinated. In
one household all the members of
the family, except young girl
who had been vaccinated, were
stricken down with smallpox.
There was not much t:ouble when
that outbreak started to get the un-
vaccinated in that community to
submit to vaccination.
Another unvaccinated child was
recently brought into small village
in Cumberland County from Ohio.
and three other cases was the re-
suit. Only the other day we re-
ceived message stating that resi-
dent of Columbia had gone to pay
visit to neighboring State, and
upon his return home went down
with smallpox.
"When we have endeavored 10
have the vaccination law enforce
in the rural communities we have
frequently been met by the state
nent that there had not been case
Of smallpox in the community for
years, and, therefore, the people
saw no necessity of being vacci.
mated. But to quote the strong
argument Of Chief Justice Mitchell,
OF the Supreme Court of Pennsyl
vauia, immunity for forty years in
TIE past affords no guaranty of i'm
munity for even forty days in the
future, if a chance visitor from an
infected locality or borough resi-
dent returning from a visit to such
locality should bring with him the
germs OF Infection
How true was the picture that
Justice Mitchell drew has been !
shown by the imported cases of
small pox. which the State Depart
ment of Health has been called
upon to fight within the past few
days.
Germany and Japan are mall-
ing smallpox in their empires al
most a thing Of the past by vacci-
nation laws far more rigid and far
reaching than the one we have in
Pennsylvania, and which the anti
vaccinationists declare they are
going to use their influence with
the present Legislature to repeal.
If the Legislature takes any
action regarding vaccination I can
only express the hope that it will
be step forward toward making
our law a more effective barrier to
smallpox rather than to move back
ward to such prevalence of small
pox as existed in Germany and ia
pan before those countries began to
fight this horrible disease by COM
pulsory vaccination.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-24

of valuable ground could be reclaim
ed at a comparatively trifling cost
The scheme officials have in mind
is more or less on par with the
irrigation work which the national
government is now carrying out in
the west. The land would be drain
ed at comparatively small cost
and sold to settlers at decidedly in
creased value. The money thus
gained would be used to drain and
reclaim other land which in turn
would be sold. Thus the reclama-
ton work would be an endless
chain till the whole of the six mill
ion acres had been reclaimed. Work
already done by private enterprise
shows that the drained land is
among the best of the agricultural
land in the world and the plan
looks very promising.
XIX
Hope is rising among the fr riends
OF ship subsidy over the prosp ct of
getting such measure to vote
OH the floor of the House at the
present session. A bill providing
for an annual appropriation of not
more than So $50, 900 has be II re-
ported out of the House Committee
and will probably get a hearing in
the House itself within the ext
few weeks. The plan is volumi-
nous in detail and provides for
many South American and trans
Pacific lines employing total of
about forty ships all of which will
have to be built in American ship.
yards owned by American citizens
and repaired in American dry
docks. There is not much question
that if such a measure ever passes
the House it will go through the
Senate with the greatest ease, for
here is the stronghold of ship sub
sidy. But the democratic members
Of the House promise to fight the
bill unconpromisingly and have an
nounced their intention 10 filibuster
against it as long as possible.
Ky
Quite tempest has been raised
in the social tea pot over the an
nouncement that Chile conteIuplat-
es raising the rank Of her legation
here to the dignity OF an embassy.
There is now only one ambassador
from South America, the one from
Brazil. If Chile raised the rank OF
her representative it will of course
necessitate raising the rank of our
present minister to Chile. This
will entail some expense but is a
social luxury which we probably
would be willing to'pay for. How
ever, the pinch comes from the fact
that if Chile does raise the rank OF
her legation here she will undoubt-
edly soon be followed by Argentine
and number of the smaller South
American Republics. This would
give lot Of the little countries re-
presentatives in Washington equal
in rank to those of the great powers
of Europe and this is thing which
the great powers are very loath to
see happen. Consequently there is
much heart breaking and jealousy
under the surface, not owing so
much to the political, as to the
social aspects of the case.
***
More lions have been discovered
-, - - -------------- ----.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-24
THURSDAY, JANUARY "a, 1916
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.

Washington, D. c. Jan. "a, 1907.
As there is not the slightest pros
pect of tariff revision a. the present
session, one ought to be thankful
even for such thing as near re-
vision Secretary Root mas ad-
vanced a proposal for a maximum
and a maximum tariff that ought
to prove something of a palliative
measure while real revision is still
lying dormant. There is a meeting
II Washington this week OF a con-
ntion for the encouragement of
nerican foreign trade. This body
3 meeting simultaneously with the
.,ational Board Of Trade, repre-
lting all the Boards of Trade and
Chambers OF Commerce in the Unit
ed States. Secretary Root deliver
ed an address before this body this
week in which he suggested var
liable tariff as better thing for the
country than reciprocity treaties.
He pointed out that with the pres.
ent high tariff law no foreign coun
try was given any inducement to
treat the United States exports on
preferential basis. Other coun-
tries knew that no matter what they
might concede us they would be
no better off commercially in the
end. He said, OH the other hand,
that if the President were given dis
cretion in scaling down the duties
on certain articles to a maximum
of 20 per cent. of the present rates
he would be in a position to nego
tiate with other countries and offer
them something tangible in return
for preferential treatment at their
hands. This contention was reason
able enough and is quite true so tar
as it goes, lacking a complete re-
vision of the tariff, it is very ex-
cellent plan and one that ought to
be adopted. But both friends and
enemies of the tariff know that re.
vision ultimately will have to come.
That the majority of schedules un-
der the Dingley law are now inor-
dinately high and work hardship
on the entire population when the
need for them in fostering infant
industries has long nee disappear
ed. Anything short of decent
and far reaching revision can be
considered little else than make
shift, though even with a generally
reduced tariff Secretary Roots plan
for maximum and minimum rate
of duty is one that could we'll be
considered.
XXX
Congress contemplates an appro
priation and probably will vote or
it this week which is of interest tc
all southern states having swamI
lands within their borders. There
are 5000, 900 acres of these land.
and most of them are in the south
ern states. The plan contemplated
is to drain them and reclaim then
as agricultural land and the appro
priation will be with a view to as
certain just what this reclamation
scheme would cost and how lane
values would be enhanced under it
Much of the work has been don,
in a tentative way by the Geologi
cal Survey already. Topographi
cal maps which are being made O
the whole United States have beer
extended over these swamp area
and the drainage line indicate yer,
accurately what an immense amour
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-24

GA. . T 60 E7 r "A.
s'a'' ''o .~17'h' Kind You ''a'' sIUa'' Bought
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-10

to submit to further demands upon
them for supplies OF food and clothing.
which were ABSOLUTELY necessary 70
maintain the army in the field. Alter
some general conversation on the sup-
ject in which General Lac participated.
dent by saying that while believed
the people OF Virginia We're prepared
to make still further sacrifices In sup
pbrt OF the cause they held so dear.
preferred that the other Representa-.
tives from Virginia should be con-
suited, and suggested that they should
be invited to the conferslce- 3,
This suggestion was adopted. and HI
the Virginia Represeptatives=-ftft
in numher---by the Invitation OF the
President. met hin, his Gabinet anu
General Lee III the afternoon OF tins
same day, at O'clock.
General Lee at 4he End.
At this meeting there was full ana
free interchange OF opinion, and az
tina Representatives concurred In say
ins, that the people of Virginia would
be found ready and willing to hlsae
any requisitlon that might be n,ads
upon them In the same spirit OF Ivy.
ialty and devotion that had character.
izsd them since the eolnmencsnlons %
the struggle.
i~ssA
explained the situation tul,y front q
military standpoint. Flo ref erred to
the length OF the line No was obliged
to defend to the number Of sffeetlye5
men Under hts command, to the great
saaroits OF food for his soldiers and
forage for his animals, but he did noe
say. nor ala he lntimats, In any nlan-
nor whatever. that the cause WAS lost
and tiat the tine foy surrender had
come. He was n soldier aud douhtless
ifelt that 1t was not his province to
volunteer advice to the POLITICAL :dA.s
partlnent, but to make the -,best eight
ha could with tho means the governs,
n,ent was able to place at his disposal
During the progress OF thu war he pub.
glished battle orders in which lie 9eS.
pressed confiasnee Iii the final result
ana In the correspondence betSesn,
General Grant ana himself, he expressed
the opinion that the emergency \ az
mot arisen to call for the surrender Of
1 his "a rrly. t5 M nv
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-10

.livered touenlng address IN which.
AMONG other thlngs he said:
hope nolia Who Hear mo VIII eoh-
found this expression ef.tnine with the
advocacy OF the right OF a State to
remain III the Union, and to disregard
its con stitutlonal obligations BY the
Snlllifaca ton Of the law, Such Is not
my theory. Nulllficatofi and seees-
sion, 50 often confounded, are, indeed,
antagot1istic pfinciples. ,NulliflcAtloh
Els q stnedy which IL is Sought to ap-
ply within the Union, and AZ ainst the
agent OF the States. II IL only to be
Justified When the agehet has VIC.
lated HIS constitutional obligations,
AHA IN State, Assuming to Judge for
ltself. denies thA rigf,t 81 the agent
Thus 10 adt,s and appeals to the othsFA
States 81 tho Union tor a deoision;
but yahen the States themselves, and
when the people of the states have
10 acted as t6 \ 90 Vince us that they
Will not regard our constitutional
then, for tile first time. arises
the doctrine % accession In its prao,
tieal application. n N
Nnllifleatioa ana setsssi0a.
IA great esnnM, w no II now poess
With his fathers. ana niho has oltsA