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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-01
Notice For Bids.

Notice is hereby given hat bids for the
of a frame school house will
Der End 1907 by the undersigned clerk of the
school board of District No. l23 Day county,
South Dakota. A certified check for S100
must accompany all bids as a guarantee
of good faith. The board reserves the
right to reject any and all bids. Plans
and specifications can be had by consult
ing the UNDERSIGNED.
Dated at Webster, South Dakota. this
first day of August, 1907.
]. g. Johnson.
Clerk of School District No. i23
Day county, South Dakota.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
OKLAHOMA IS DEMOCRATIC
Prohibition Wins by 10000 and
Constitution Three to One.
The Whole State Ticket, Headed by
Charles N. Haskell, of Muskogee,
Was Elected.

Oklahoma City.-Returns from the
larger cities and counties Of Okla
homa and Indian Territory indicate
that the constitution of the proposed
new State has been adopted by 10000
majority; that the prohibition clause
Of the constitution has been ratified
by 10000, and that the Democratic
State ticket, headed by C. N. Haskell
for Governor, has been elected.
The Legislature is Democratic by a
large majority, and will elect as
United States Senators Robert L.
Owen, a Cherokee Indian, and T. P.
Gore, a blind man. They were nom
mated by primaries in June.
In the Congress election the Demo-
Gratis seem to have chosen four Of the
five Representatives. The candidates
probably elected are:
First District-Former Delegate to
Congress Bird S. Mcclure, Repub-
lican. ..
Second District-E. l.. Fulton,
Democrat, defeating ex-Territorial
Governor E. B. Ferguson.
Third District-James Davenport,
Democrat.
Fourth District-C. D. Carter,
Democrat. ..... '...I.,
Fifth District-Scott Ferris, Dem
ocrat.
The new State must await the con-
stitution's Endorsement by President
Roosevelt, who will either approve or
reject it upon his judgment as to
whether it conforms to the enabling
act of Congress and the Constitution
of the United States.
In the enabling act Congress pro-
vided for prohibition in Indian Terri
tory until January /, 1927. The pro-
hibition clause voted on applies the
same provision to the Oklahoma side
of the new State.
If it has carried, as it now seems,
Statewide prohibition will be a part
of the constitution for twenty-one
years, and at the end of that period
will remain in force indefinitely In
less repealed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23

Florida, N. Y.-Farmers in New
York State are receiving from the
New York Department of Health let
tiers setting forth the requirements or
the department necessary to insure a
pure milk supply for the New York
City market. The requirements run
all the way from cleaning the window
panes of the coWpen to cutting the
cows hair.
One farmer who had received a list
of the departments requirements de-
clares that if some of the rules are
carried out there will be a serious
shortage of milk in the market, as to
obey orders would mean a great ex-
pense and require 80 much time at
tending to the animals that very little
profit would result to the owners. The
farmer said:
while the price Of milk for the
coming six months by one big con-
trolling concern has been advanced
sixteen per cent. over last years
price, it must be taken into consider
alton that the price Of the principal
feeds has gone up twenty-five per
cent. -
The same man pointed out that to
meet the requirements more help
would be required and that all this
would eat up the little profit that the
cow raiser now makes. In addition
it Is hard to get competent help.
Too Early For Cleaning.
One requirement to which local
farmers make strenuous objection is
that requiring that the cowshed be
thoroughly cleaned before the COWS
are MIXED. AS the milking Is done
very early each morning, perhaps
long before daylight, it can be seen
that the cleaning process will be al
most an impossibility. The farmer
Is not wealthy, and many OF them
have not the cash to make the re-
quired improvements about their
premises.
Where are our very small present
profits to come in?" said an owner of
several head after reading the de-
partment circular. where is the
money to come from to put in a non
absorbent floor and six-inch cutters
with rounded corners of the non-ab-
sorbent material? Are we required
to put in lights, so that the feeding
troughs be lighted? am unable to
see where it insures pure milk to
have the cow see what she is eating,
or perhaps have the window clean so
that she may gaze pensively over the
barnyard while she chews her cud.
Another requirement is that all
the helm be provided with clean suits
when they go in to make the COW
comfortable or relieve them of their
milk. My wife would object to that.
and farmers wives never have much
to do"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
MARTYR TO SCIENCE DEAD.
Major James Carroll Let Himself Be
Inoculated With Yellow Fever.

Washington, D. C.-Major James
Carroll, surgeon, U. S. A., who was a
member of the commission which was
SEM to Cuba to. study yellow fever
Just after the close Of the Spanish
War, died at his home here. 1t was
his commission that fixed definitely
on the mosquito as the medium OF
transmission in yellow fever. DR..
Carroll allowed himself to be bitten
by a mosquito that had been infect
ed from three distinct yellow fever
cases. He developed the disease four
days after being bitten. His last i'll
ness was the direct result of his
work in the study of tropical diseases
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
FOILS MOB, KILLS HIMSELF.
Crown Had Shot Sweetheart and Her
Mother, and Then Fled.

Altoona, Pa.-After killing the
girl he had been forbidden to court,
John Crown fatally wounded her
mother with a second bullet and then,
having fallen exhausted at the end OF
a two-mile pursuit, shot himself to
cheat a mob of would-be lynchers.
Crown came from England two
months ago and took quarters with
Mrs. Harriet Nevlin and her daugh-
ter Jennie at Sandy Ridge, two miles
from here. For his unwelcome atten-
lions to the girl he was turned out
Of the house.
Crown returned to the cottage aud
called for the girl. She would not
see him, and, forcing his way into
the house, he found her in her bed
room and shot her through the heart.
Mrs. Nevlin grappled with the muir
derer, and he put a second outlet
through her lungs.
Outside, attracted by the shots, a
crowd Of brickmakers had gathered.
Crown dashed through their ranks
and into the woods. When escape
was impossible, he fired the last bull
let through his own heart.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
FOREIGN.

The barns of the new Agricultural
College at St. Anne de Bellevue, at
Montreal, were struck by lightning
and destroyed. The college is being
erected by Sir William Macdonald
at a cost of 100000.
The Japanese Consul-General at
Mukden has been transferred because
of failure to obtain commercial con-
cession- from China.
Russian newspapers severely crit
icise the seamanship of the navy for
letting the Cars yacht run ashore.
Some Moorish tribes are suing for
peace, and General Drude has given
them until this afternoon to accept
his terms.
Count Okuma declared in Toxic,
Japan, the Canadian authorities were
more sincere than those of California.
NJ. ~Gradevsky, a former member
of the Russian Parliament, who con-
lected money in America for Polish
schools, has been banished and the
money confiscated.
Anti-American agitators in Japan
are silent in the face Of the Van
couyer affair.
Nathan Straus, of New York, told
the international Pure Milk Congress
at Brussels of the benefits of the Pas
teurization of milk.
France has decided to settle claims
for damages at C%asablanca through
an international commission, Morocco
being held responsible for losses.
The King OF Sweden has expressed
the desire that the Swedes in the
United States return to their home
land.
Three persons were killed and fifty
injured by dispatch bearers using
automobiles in the recent German
army mane@yres.
A soldier named Tcharn!tsky was
hanged at Moscow, Russia, for per-
hitting six political prisoners to es-
cape while he was on guard over
them.
About 100 of the leading Chinese
mercantile establishments at Canton
were destroyed by fire.
According to a dispatch from San
Sebastian, Spain, King Alfonso under
went an operation for the removal CT
nasal polypi.
The total numbar of riot victims in
Russia has been estimated by q noted
statistician as 47,020, while assas-
sinations by reyolutionists numbered
1921.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
EXPLOSION ON 4 WARsH|P
Many Japanese Meet Death on
the Kashima.
Blast Took Place Inside Shield OF
Starboard 1O-Inch Gun, Badly
Damaging Ship.

Tokio.-An explosion aboard the
japanese warship Kashima killed five
officers and twenty-five men and six
teen others are seriously wounded.
The catastrophe occurred after target
| practice near Kure, at four o'clock
in the afternoon.
The cause of the explosion is un-
der investigation. # occurred inside
of the shield Of the starboard after
ten-inch gun. 1t was not the shell
which exploded, but powder, which
evidently caught fire from the gas
emitted from the breech when opened
for the purpose Of reloading the gun.
The hull Of the Kashima is not
damaged.
The Kashima, in command of Cap
tain Kolzumi, reached Kure two
hours later, where the wounded were
| placed In the hospital.
The Kashima is a battle ship OF
16,400 tons, built in England and
completed in 1906. She is 425 feet
long, heavily armored, mounts four
t~welve-inch guns, four ten-inch and
twelve six-inch and a number OF
smaller rapid-ire guns, and carries a
| crew of $50 officers and men. Her
| speed is estimated at more than nine
teen knots. She is a sister ship OF
| the Gatori, also built in England.
Outside of the disasters to Japan
csc wal vessels during the war with
Russia, the sinking of Admiral Togo's
| flagship, the Mikasa, this is the most
serious disaster which has befallen
the navy of Japan. The Mikasa sank
September II, 1905, at Sasebo, after
a mysterious explosion had occurred
on board of her, the general opinion
being that it was the result Of spon-
taneous combustion, due to the de-
composition of explosives in the mag
azine. Two hundred and ffty-six
we're killed or missing and 343 in
jured. Admiral Togo was not on
board at the time.
The explosion on board the IA
shima recalls the disaster of July Is
last on board the United States battle
ship Georgia, off Provincetown, Mass,
when nine men, including Lieutenant
Caspar Goodrich and Midshipman
Faulkner Goldthwaite, were killed,
and thirteen were injured by an ex-
plosion in the after turret Of that
vessel.
The French Navy has been particu-
larly unfortunate during the last year
or so, it's list of accidents exceeding
that of the navy Of any other country.
The British navy has not been with
out its disasters Of recent years.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
FARMFRSREBELA TPURE MILKRULE
Health Department Says Hair on Cows Tail
and Flank Must Be Cut and Lights Put in
Troughs--CIean Suits For Mixers

! AS a general thing the farmers dc
not believe that epidemic of disease
has been caused by the condition OF
the milk they have sent to the mar.
ket, and they considert that the Health
Departments demands are beyond
reason. Already some are deter
mined not to send their milk to New
York City, and are arranging to send
it elsewhere or dispose of it locally.
Health Departments Requirements,
Some of the requirements of the
New York Department Of Health fol-
low:
That the floors be constructed OF
! concrete or some non-absorbent mate
rial.
That the floors be made water tight
and properly graded.
That the drops or cutters be con-
structed of concrete, stone, or some
non-absorbent material. That they
be at least six inches in depth, with
all corners founded.
That the feeding troughs, plat.
forms and cribs be well lighted and
kept clean at all times.
That additional windows be in.
| stalled in the COW barn to provide
| sufficient light. 1.-TWO square feet oil
window space for each cow to be the
minimum).
That the window panes be washed
and kept clean at all times.
That the walls and lodges be thor
oughly swept down and kept free
from dust, dirt or cobwebs at all
times.
! That an inspection of the herd by
a veterinarian be made and a copy OF
his report forwarded to this depart
ment.
That the long hairs on the TANKS
and tail be clipped and kept short al
all times.
That clean, special suits be pro.
! vided for all the attendants engaged
in the production and handling OF
milk.
That the milk at all times be
| strained at the milk house, and IN ar
atmosphere free from dust or odors.
That the milk pals used be of the
| small-mouthed design, so constructed
that they can be readily and thor
oughly cleaned, and top opening not
to exceed eight inches in diameter.
That racks be provided in some
suitable place so as to expose the milk
pals to the sun or to live steam.
That a milk house be built and To-
Gated on elevated ground, with no
hog pen within 100 feet.
The New York Health Depart.
ment's instructions tell the farmer In
conclusion that no milk on his prem.
Uses will be permitted to be brought
into the city of New York unless con
ditions are remedied within a certain
time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
BITS u NEWS
WASHINGTON.

The Navy Department asked pro-
posals for 253,000 tons Of coal, to
be used by the battleship heet on its
voyage to the Pacific.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf re-
turned to Washington from his ten
weeks visit to California, and will
discuss details Of the forthcoming
transfer Of the Atlantic fleet with
President Roosevelt.
Luke E. Wright, retiring Ambas-
sador to Japan, said the responsible
classes in Japan were not anti-Amer-
lean.
Authoritative announcement was
made at Washington that the st.
Gaudens designs for the new SO and
$40 gold pieces have been accepted.
! The annual report of the National
Bureau of Labor shows an increase
of AS per cent. in wages in manufac-
turing and mechanical industries, and
an advance Of 20 per cent. il the
price of food.
1t has cost the United States az
proximately s400,000,000 to acquire
and hold the Philippine Islands.
The b%attleship Kansas, supposed to
be an eighteen-knot ship, made but
1881 knots on the best run Of her
final acceptance trial. =.
Colonel J. G. Galbraith, Acting In
spector-General of the Army, in his
annual report, urged that the army
enlistment conditions be made more
attractive for the private soldier.
Representative Loud, of Michigan,
member of the House Committee, in
speeding the naval stations along the
Atlantic seaboard, said it was the
plan to place a drydock in every navy
yard in the country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
FOR CAPITOL FRAUDS.
Warrants For Fourteen Men Involved
in Harrisburg Scandal.

Warrants For Fourteen Men Involved
in Harrisburg Scandal.
Harrisburg, Pa.-The long expect
ed arrests of those held to be respon-
sible for the frauds committed in
furnishing and decorating Pennsyl-
vania's s13,000,000 Capitolhave been
made, the Acknowledgement causing
warrants to be issued for fourteen
of the eighteen persons and firms
named by the Capitol Investigation
Commission as being involved in the
scandal.
Those for whom warrants were is
sued are: Joseph NJ. Huston, archi-
tect, and his active assistant, Stan
ford B. Lewis, both of Philadelphia;
John H. Sanderson,/ Philadelphia,
chief contractor for furnishings; Con-
gresham H. Burd Cassel, Marietta,
Treasurer and Executive Officer Of
the Pennsylvania Construction Com
pany, contractors for steel filing
cases; James H. Shumaker, Johns
town, former Superintendent Of Pub
lie Grounds and Buildings, who re-
ceipted for the furnishings; George
H. Payne and his partner, Charles G..
Wetter, both of Philadelphia, builders
of the Capitol and contractors for the
$30S,0O0 attic; William P. Snyder,
Spring City, former Auditor-General
who approved the warrants Of the
contractors; William l.. Mathues,
Media, former State Treasurer, who
paid the bills of the contractors;
Charles F. Kinsman, Wallis Boileau,
John G.. Neiderer and George c.
Storm, all of Philadelphia, stock
holders in the Pennsylvania Bronze
Company, organized by Sanderson for
the manufacture Of the 100000
lighting fixtures; Frank Irvine, Audi
tor in the Auditor Generals office,
who audited the accounts Of the con
tractors.
The principal defendants were held
in 100000 bail, which was furnished
in every instance by surety COM
panieS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
DOMESTIC.

D. Willis James, senior member OF
the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., and
we'll known as a philanthropist and
publicist, died at Breton Woods, N.
H., where he had been spending the
summer with Mrs. James.
Last year 1858 persons were
killed on the railroads Of the United
States, The Interstate Commerce Com
mission reports.
Dispatches from Chicago sail E. H.
Hartman would spend $75,000,000
in double tracking his railway sys-
TENS west of Chicago.
Burton Plummer, nineteen years
old, has confessed that he set fire to
the Normandie Hotel, at Columbus,
Ohio, which was destroyed with a loss
of 100000.
, Nineteen British financial editors
arrived on the Lusitania, on their
way to Canada as guests Of the Gov
ernmenG of Ontario.
Congressman Nicholas Longworth
and Mrs. Longworth arrived at San
Francisco on the steamer Sierra from
Honolulu.
The Lusitania, the Cunard lines
new turbine steamship, was warmly
welcomed to New York at the close OF
her maiden trip across the Atlantic,
when she reduced the record between
Queenstown and New York by six
hours and Twenty-Five minutes.
A suit against the Standard Oil
Company was postponed at Boston
because of the illness Of H. H. Rogers.
Congressman Weeks (Rep.), of
Massachusetts, denounced the pro-
posed Pacific cruise of the ~battleship
fleet as IAN unwise expense and in
judicious."
Archibald Henry Blount, of Orle-
ton, Hertfordshire, England, has be-
queathed 100000 to Yale Univer-
sity.
Chester B. Runyan, who stole $780,
600 from the Windsor Trust Com
pany, was sentenced in New York
City to seven years in prison.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
JERSEY DEMOCRATS NOMINATE.
Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr., is Named
For Governor in Trenton.

Frank S. KatZenbach, DR., is Named
For Governor in Trenton.
Trenton, N. J.-Former Mayor
Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr., of Tren-
ton, was nominated for Governor by
the Democratic State Convention on
the first ballot. Beforethe announce
ment of the result Of the vote all can
didates with complimentary votes
were withdrawn and their votes
changed to Katzenbach, making shis
nomination unanimous.
Former State Chairman William 5.
Gourley, of Passaic, was permanent
chairman.
The convention was entirely har-
monious, and the platform, as pre-
pared by the State Committee, was
adopted with slight changes. The
principal features Of the platform are
! declaration for a general house
cleaning in State departments. for
the taxation locally of main stem rail-
road property, and the franchises OF
public utilities companies. The plat
form was entirely silent on the excise
question.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
The World of Sport.

There are at least $1,000 American
yachts which cruise yearly in foreign
waters.
The Spokane T., an American SON.
ierklaSse yacht, won. two special
aces at Bilboa for cups offered by
King Alfonso.
The team of the Sixth Massachu-
sets Regiment, with a score Of 1855,
0 the interstate regimental match
IT Sea Girt, N. j.
Members of the rifle team which
won the Palma trophy at Ottawa.
Canada, were presented to President
Roosevelt at Sycamore Hill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
Women in the Days News.

Women's shoes this fall, says an
authority, are to be more pointed
Tattouing has become ~fashionaple
among the women of the smart set
in London.
The Empress of China is collecting
grizzly bears and wildcats LOT her
~menagerie.
An Oregon girl travelled 40Oo miles
behind an OK team for the purpose OF
marrying a minister. -
There are in London seamstresses
who receive only thirty-one cents d
dozen for making shirts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
NeWsy GieaningS.

There are 1857 deaf people in
Maine.
Brazil is spending $15,000,OOo on
tattleships.
Russia and Japan have agreed to
protect China.
A huge meteor dropped into the
sea near Amagansett, L. /.
indianapolis has Alt private
svyitohes within it's city limits.
Owing to the protests from Boston,
the plan to move the frigate Constitu-
ton from that city has been aban-
Annad~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
COST OF DYING INCREASED.
Athol, Mass.-The cost of dying as

Athol, Mass.-The cost of dying as
we'll as of living is fast becoming pro-
hibitiye in Athol. simultaneously
with the increase in the price of milk.
meat and eggs, there has been an ad-
vance of twenty-five per cent. in the
price of funeral carriages. Baskets
are higher, gravestones cost twice as
much as formerly, while the price OF
cemetery lots has passed beyond the
means of many residents.
Some citizens are talking of adopt
ing the method in vogue in France,
where the cost of funerals is regulat-
cd according to the family income. :
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
A TOLL OF L
Eighty Persons Killed, Twenty-Five
Hurt, in Summer Season.

Berne, Switzerland.-The toll OF
summer victims Of Alpine accidents Is
the heaviest ever recorded. Eighty
persons were killed and twenty-five
Injured in ninety accidents this year,
as against the previous record OF
seventy-six fatalities in 1906 in sew.
enty-one accidents. Thirty-eight OF
the persons killed were guides, thirty.
n were persons spending Vacations
in the Alps and the remainder were
native flower gatherers, etc. Three.
quarters of the fatalities were caused
by falls over precipices. The others
we're due to avalanches, snowstorms
and lightning.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
JEKYLL-HYDE IN REAL LIFE.

Dublin, Ind.-After witnessing a
production of Or. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde" some time ago, Albert Deaver,
Of Newcastle, attempted to initiate
the rawlings of Mr.. Hyde. He became
so adept that his representation
amazed his friends, and in a few
weeks he began to experience the
same difficulty that DR.. Jekyll did in
returning to his normal self. A few
days ago he seemed to lapse involun-
tarily into the character of Mr.. Hyde,
which now apparently has complete
control of him. He was taken to the
INSANE hnsnjtal
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Trade between Singapore and the
Southern Philippines is constantly
growing. .
The United States army transport
Thomas is on the way to Honolulu,
Guam and Manila, with nine troops
Of the Sixth Cavalry and a detach-
ment Of field artillery for the Philip
pines, in addition to a large number
of cabin passengers.
A. J. Campbell, Treasurer OF Ha-
wall, is on his way to New York to
float an issue Of S30S,500 Territorial!
bonds.
Dinners and receptions as we'll as a
number Of automobile trips about
Hawaii were given to the Long
worths.
The Pope called the first Plenary
Council ever held in the Philippines.