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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-10-19

these statesmen are actEated
by their desire to see the
great northwest continue on
it's present wave of prosper
ity. The people of South
Dakota have cause to thank
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr..
Crawford for their position
on this great question.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-10-19
South Hand Items.

I Mrs. Knox took dinner
at L. j. Robison's Tues
day.
John Robson has been
helping O. G. Knox for a
few days.
Thursa Robson has gone
to Madison to attend Nor
NAL school.
Tom and DeMoss Robi-
son are harvesting a fine
crop of potatoes.
L. j. Robson has so far
recovered that Mrs. Robson
has returned home.
David Robson is in
Madison for a couple of
days this week, Just for
fun"
Mr.. L. j. Robson is en-
tertaining her cousin, Miss
Lizzie Barber, from Wis
consin, at Beuna Vista farm
this week.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-10-19

One of the first benefits
to come to Miller from the
new railroad connection
with the Black Hills, will
be the opportunity to Sc
cure the New York Grand
Concert Company for
Nov. 2.
The Redpath Bure au,
anxious to atone for their
inability to produce the
Mcdonald Concert Com
pany, offer this splendid
attraction as a substitute.
But for this fact the
price for these people
would be prohibitive for
Miller.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-10-19
1st pub Oct 19-t4
Notice of Hearing.
State of South Dakota, County of
Hand, IS.
In County Court.

In County Court.
In the matter of the Estate of Edward
Cakes, nonresident, deceased.
Notice of time Appointed for Pro-
bate of Nom Resident Estate on
Foreign Court Proceedings.
The State of South Dakota sends
greeting to the creditors and all per-
sons interested in the estate of Ed
ward Cakes. late of Stony Brook,
county of Suffolk, state of New York,
deceased.
Pursuant to an order of said court,
made on the 18th day of October, A. d.
1907, notice is hereby given that Mon
day, the 18th day of November, A. d.
1907, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of
said day, at the court room of said
court, at the court house in the city
of Millerin said county of Hand, have
been appointed as the time and place
for hearing the petition of Lucy j.
Darling, praying for the probate and
dblli iooiOi w UliC lCSOidS vi Sdid COuIJ
as a probate of said estate, certain
papers purporting to be duly certified
and authenticated copies of the pro-
ceedings of foreign court, in the
matter of the probate and final dis
tribution of the said estate, when and
where any creditor of said deceased
may appear and show cause why the
prayer of the said petition should not
be granted.
Witness the Hon. G. M. Carroll,
judge of the county court and the
seal Of said court, this 18th day of
October, A. d. 1907, at his Office in the
city Of Miller. county Of Hand. state
of South Dakota.
(seal] John Costigan,
Clerk of said County Court.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-10-19
Locals.


John Bartlett near Bur-
dette is building a new
barn.
Carl Frahm arrived home
from Nebraska to remain
a month.
+. r. Ross and family
will move to Washing
ton to live.
S. S. Roberts is building
a new barn 44x6O on his
farm northeast of st. Law
renee.
Chas. johnson and wife
returned east after a pleas
ant visit at the home Of j.
b. Morrow.
Peter Weir returned from
Minnesota with his wife and
FIVE children and they are
settled in the Dowler
cottage.
Attorney J. H. Cole ex-
poets to go to Desmet the
first of the week, where he
is interested in s or 8 i'm
'portant civil cases.
Frank Bowles from Neb-
raska drew No. SO in the
land drawing contest west
of Pierre. Others who
were lucky were j. l.. Hen
bricks 5, Geo Glidden 10,
j. l.. Jones, st Lawrence
80 and w. E. Reeve, Mil Ter
$50.
L ae Christian Scientists
have opened a reading room
in the Whitcomb block,
where Christian Ccience
Literature may be read or
purchased if desired. The
room will be open to the
public Wednesdays and
Saturdays from 3 to 5.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-10-19
Locals.

Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Hall
were III from near Orient.
Mrs. Fales is about, after
her serious illness and looks
frstrate.
w II Waters and family
have moved into their large
new house.
Gordon Rudd was in the
north part of the county
several days.
j. G. Lounsbery and wife
have moved to rooms over
Sutphen's store.
S. L. Wilkins departed
for a visit to his old home
inlNew York state.
David Hofer, of the Elm
Greek Society, recently visi-
ted Midtown on business.
Albert Sieman arrived
from Minnesota to visit his
brother Fred, southwest of
here.
Jacob Fischer, a promi-
nent farmer southeast OF
here, was in town this week
on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Hand
kins have a little baby girl
at their home since Thurs
day.
E. S. Ross bought the
Charley Justice farm in
Holden township of Lewis
Shuster for $25 an acre.
Otto Fitzgerald departed
for the Drew pharmacy
college at Minneapolis to-
complete the course. He is
a good druggist now and
will certainly be well
equipped for the business
with a further course in
college.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kennedy
and son George will return
to Illinois Monday. They
bought a quarter of land a
mile and a half north of
town and will return in
February and make their
home on it after putting up.
buildings.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-10-19
Locals.

w. B. Mcdonald and
family expect to move to
Enid, Oklahoma, shortly.
r. II. Andrews expects
his mother here from Iowa
in a short time for a visit.
Mrs. J. H. Snoddy is
seriously i'll at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Healey.
Mr.. Chas. Sheppard is
moving into St. Lawrence
and building a house
29x28.
Mrs. w. @. Larson and
baby of Laurens, Iowa, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. M.
Wilxox.
James Warke added a
new porch to his house and
also painted it. The place
looks nice.
Miss Fac Cowen is steno-
grapher and typewriter at
the Red Elevator office for
Chas. Thomson.
Mrs. Sarah Demming,
departed for Iowa after a
pleasant visit at the home
of her son, f. f. Demming.
Orr Foster, from Mar
shall, Mimi, is clerking in
the Henshaw hotel. He
expects to bring his family
here later.
w. B. Scharff, who
bought the Elder Bates
farm east OF town, expects
to improve the place con-
siderably next spring.
Mrs. John Dennis has
arrived to visit at the home
of her aunt, Mrs. John
Bowles, and with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. 1'rot-
man.
+. HI. Benton, whose
headquarters are at Miller
has delivered $4,000 gallons
of oil the last month. This
is more than from any other
station in South Dakota.
Basket social Oct. 25.
Program IAN October
party, given by the school
at the Sheldon schoolhouse
5 miles east and a half mile
north of st. Lawrence.
j. q. Lounsbery fell from
a ladder in the Red Eieva-
tor Wednesday, and in
jused his back and one
wrist quite severely. He
is now about again. 1t
was a narrow escape.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-10-19

We now have a Sunday
mail and passenger train
that arrives here at 1870
a m continuing on to the
Black Hills
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-10-19
Crawford's Speech.
Sioux Falls Press.


Crawford at the Deep
Waterway Convention at
Memphis feel a thrill of
pride at the wonderful re-
cord of their state along all
lines of it's development
and of thankfulness over
the governors keen and
trenchant diagnosis of her
greatest need today. \
The message of Governor
Crawford before the con-
vention was a glorious one.
1t showed that South Dako-
ia, although a comparative
ly young member in the
household of states, is one
of the wealthiest and most
prosperous. 1t showed
that its soil yielded in 1906
the enormous sum Of
$146, 100000 and more than
that it showed that the
state is but at the beginning
of its career. The annual
output is increasing each
year. At present there are
but six people to the square
mile. With the tide of
immmigratio constantly in
creasing the development of
the state will become great
er and greater, the value of
her products will constant
ly grow. For all this there
is plenty of room. What
her output a few years
hence will be is only a mat
ter of conjecture.
With such a record and
with such an outlook Gov
ernor Crawford showed
that the state is lacking in
but ore thing, and that is
it's transportation means.
The governor showed that
the Missouri river is at the
present time an artery Of
commerce, which though
practically unused now, is
full of great possibilities.
With proper improvements
the river would be in a po-
sition to afford healthy
rivalry for the railroads in
the transportation of
freight. Under such a
competition transportation
rates would decrease, and
the farmers would be great
ly identified. The governor
showed that already in one
instance the MISSOURI river
had caused a drop in rail-
road tariffs between Pierre
and New York. 1t would
cause other drops to the in
creased prosperity of the
farmers.
It is worthy of note that
Governor Crawford and
President Roosevelt stand
on common ground on this
great question that is of SO
much consequence to the
great northwest. Both of
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-10-19
Quarterly Statement Of Superintendent
OF Hospital for the Insane

To the County Auditor Of Hand County
S. d. Herewith hand You statement OF
account OF Hand County with the Hospit-
at for Insane. for the quarter ending
Sent 20 1907 aN-ts~A-reeAs
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10

sioner of New York city who is being
sued for $4,000 for two kisses i'm
planted upon the lips of Mrs. Laura
White, of Fishkill Landing.
Seven thousand five hundred dollars
is much money to spend for a single
osculatory salutation, but the price has
been high through all history. Some
times, as with Marc Antony, it's charms
have cost an empire and altered the
map of the worlds history. Usually it
imposes upon the mar who yields to its
sudden intoxication the penalty of mar
riage and alters the map of his indi-
vidual history.
No one would wish to undervalue the
sacredness of this most intimate of
caresses. No one would wish to deny
the proclamation of the kiss bestowed
against the will of its recipient. No one
would wish to see the guilty mar I'M
punished. What one could wish is that
its punishment might take a course less
sordid thar that adopted by Mrs. Laura
White, of Fishkill Landing. But, alas!
this is not an age Of poetry. The dollar
mark Is over all and the cold CONNER
cialization of the kiss is n of the
signs of the times.
AS a method of making money easily
tha vuonan who G n cares IN eoarsen her
womanhood has a good thing in the
man of amorous inclinations. All she
has to do is to provide the opportunity.
The jury will do the rest.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
KEEP SIDEWALKS CLEAN.

Thus far this season. except in we'll
shaded streets, the sun has performed
the duty of the householder in melting
off the light snowfalls thai have Wis
tied Newark, so that there was, very
little Inconvenience or danger to pedes-
TRANS. But this service cannot be re-
lied on. There will be more and heavier
SHOWS during the coming winter
months. and 1t is up to the owner or
occupant of premises to clear off his
sidewalk promptly as a matter of duty
to the walking public that must not be
compelled to wade through snow and
slush 1t the risk Of health or slip over
ice at the risk of broken bones.
There is also a legal obligation. ordi-
nances properly provide that sidewalks
must be kept clear of snow and ice and
fix a penalty for di~sobedience. The
police should start right in at the be-
ginning of the winter and enforce the
law rigidly.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Judge. John W. McKim, now retired
from the bench of the Massachusetts, Pro-
bate Court, over which he presided for
many years, passed his eighty-hfth birth
day last Monday. Judge McKim Is a native
of Charlestown, where he was born in 1922.
He has been a resident of jamaica Plain
for forty-two years, and was the first
judge of the West Roxbury Municipal
Court. resigning to accept the appointment
of Judge of the Suffolk Probate Court in
p1S77.
The German Emperor sent a special
courier from England with a message of
congratulation for DR.. Adalbert Tobold on
the occasion of the e~ightieth birthday of
the venerable laryngologist. The message
also conveyed the information that a
hereditary title had been conferred on DR..
Tobold. The Empress sent an autograph
cong~ratulation, and similar Fluctuations
were received from hundreds of notable
men, and from nearly all the medical and
scientific organizations in Berlin.
Senator Charles A. cuIberson, of Texas,
who has been selected by the Senate
Democratic caucus rs leader of the
minority in the upper House, was born in
Dadeville. Ala, June 10, 1865. He is the
son of the late David b.. Culberson, Con-
gresham for twenty-five years from
Texas. He was graduated from the Nir-
ginia Military Institute in 1874, and studied
law at the University of Virginia. He
settled in Texas, and was A-ttorney-Gen-
eral of that State from 1890 to 1894. He
was Governor of Texas from 1894 to 1888,
and during that time he called a special
session of the Legislature in order to get
a law passed prohibiting prize fighting.
This law stopped the proposed battle be-
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons.
In the Duke Of Argyll's Messages from
the PAST the author presents this picture
of Tennyson declaiming his verses: He
would take us into the very centre of a
large field at ~Freshwater, in the Isle of
Wight, to be sure that he could not be
overheard by anyone lurking in the hedges,
before he would stand and declaim, in n
deep. running bass voice, any piece on
which he was at work at the time. or one
that had been specially asked for. l re-
membe his thus declaiming the whole OF
his poem of "Boadicea'e with hardly a
pause for breath.
The oldest Of the Scottish peers is the
Earl of Wemyss, who lis now in his
e~ighty-ninth year and who has lived ~
the reigns. of five sovereigns. He is still
a very active man and very fond of shoot.
ing. fishing and motoring. He makes fire.
quent speeches in the House of Lords.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
THE COST OF E

1t is not necessary to believe that
when the large estimates were made up
for army and navy expenditures the
government conceived itself confronted
to account for their size. The esti-
mates are large, but in the pursuance
of the plans for providing proper de-
lenses for our great coast line and our
insular possessions they are necessary.
For the War Department $21S, III, SIG. A
is asked, of which Sill, 623, 924.96 is for
the construction Of public works, much
Of it for fortiications and other de-
lenses. The a asks for $110, 4S3, or 80.
1t does not need even umo of war
to show that these estimates are based
on what the experts regard as of press
ing necessity for the country's defense.
To wait until some enemy is at our
doors before getting ready would be
the act of a fool. The work under way
and projected must be completed as an
insurance against war as well as a
preparation for 1t. The country can
well afford the expense, and it cannot
afford to be any longer without the
Notifications and guns and ships than
it will take to build them. Congress
would do an unpatriotlc act to go to
cheese-paring on the appropriations.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10

SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 10.-With
fiercely with a black bear in the wilds
along the upper Peace River, in Can
ada, Countess Mehrenc de st. Pierre.
of st. Brieuc. Brittany, France, lay
concealed behind a wlndfall less than
two hundred feet away and watched
the strange struggle for nearly a quar-
ter of an hour. This occurred several
weeks ago while the titled woman from
across the Atlantic was making a trip
through the ~unexplored region north
of Edmonton. with only Indian guides
for her companions. Countess de st.
Pierre, who is in Seattle at present, in
speaking of the struggle. said;
For a time the honors were about
even. and so intent were the partici-
pants upon the fight that they did not
notice the approach of the Indian guide
and myself. We had been breaking
trail through a heavily wooded forest.
the Indian making his "a through the
timber and underbrush without any
more noise than the occasional cracking
of a twig beneath his moccasins. Fol-
lowing his instructions / placed my feet
in the tracks left by his moccasins,
and in this way we were able to adj
vance quietly.
MY first impulse when l came upon
the four wolves fighting desperately
with the bear was to shoot. l raised
my rifle, but suddenly the spirit of the
struggle seemed to take possession of
me, and | motioned to the guide to drop
behind a fallen tree. From the con-
cealment thus afforded we watched the
battle for several minutes.
1.-The timber wolves assailed the bear
on all sides, swapping viciously at his
heels and sprlnging away before the
slow moving bruin could turn. AS the
bear wheeled to meet an assailant an
other would spring at him from behind.
and thus the combat continued The
zeal was losing ground under the vi
.cious attacks, and 1t seemed but a mat
ter of minutes until 1t would be COM
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
L R TAX APPEALS.

Appeals by the railroad companies
against the tax assessments in this
State are chronic. Assessed and taxed
for many years at about o~ne-fourth the
rate of assessment of private property,
tho railroad companies were never sat
isfled, but sought, by every means, to
evade their axes With a State Board
of Assessors pliable to their interests.
this could be done. Since the enactment
Of the Perkins railroad tax act of 1905,
the railroads have paid only at the rate
Under the law as 1t previously existed,
and paid none of The increase on first
class property under the new>law.
In Jersey City. where the most valua-
BILE railroad property is located, the de-
mands of the railroads are excessive.
Their local assessment on second class
property last year was reduced from
$50, 100000 to $40, 900. 900 " the State
Board of Equalization. The local as
SCISSORS this year nave again put up the
assessment to something like 1914, 900, 900,
and the companies demand a reduction
to less than $40, 900, 900.
The local assessment of property in
Jersey City has been increased this
year from s24o. 900, 900 to 1857, 900, 900, and
therefore railroad property is advanced
only on a par with other property. Will
the State Board of Equalization, in the
face of this general increase, comply
with the demands of the railroad COM
panies? Is there no basis of fairness
that the foreign wner of property in
New Jersey will agree to?
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
rHE F1EEr IN HAMrroN ROADS.

A magnificent marine spectacle is
being made in Hampton Roads, where
the splendid armada that is to sail for
the Pacific next Sunday is assembling
to prepare for the great journey that
will transfx the attention of the world.
Tomorrow all the vessels that are to
take part in the voyage will be at
anchor in the Roads, and thousands Of
people from all parts Of the country
will hasten to witness a sight that
was never before presented to Amer
lean eyes and to say bon voyage to
the sturdy officers and crews who are
to navigate the armada fourteen thou
sand miles in two ceans
The insensate criticisms that assailed
the government after the fact was
made known that the Atlantic battle
| ship fleet was to be sent to the Pacific
have fairly been silenced. Little Amer
icanism is compelled to accept the in
evitable. All the difficulties conjured
up for the voyage have evaporated.
The ships nave been prepared in good
time, coal has been provided, there are
full crews, and Japan has nc. resent
fully declared war. In fact, there is
an invitation to the fleet to visit Japan
and accept Japanese courtesies, and it
is not improbable thai it will be favor
ably acted upon.
The truth is that the American peo-
pie, while jealous of a large army. in
stinctively want a powerful W. and
entirely approve of the administration
program of maintaining a navy second
only to that of Great Britain. More
over, they fully recognize the para
mount Importance to u nation of its
primacy in the Pacific and they APP
prove a step that is calculated to make
American naval power there strong
enough for all Corners, whether from
he Orient or Occident.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
FRENCH COUNTESS WATCHES
WILD BEASTS IN BATTLE

pletely exhausted. The timber wolves
kept up a continual din of sharp yelps,
interspersed with bowls of anger, while
the bear would occasionally emit a roar
of rage and painafter n of the wolves
had made an unusually successful at
tack.
"Bruin had all but given up the fight
when a realization of the UNEQUAL con-
test dawned upon me. could stand 1t
no longer, and bringing my 5000 into
play l felied one of the wolves. The
other three scurried away. while the
bear. after taking a look at the new ar
rivals, trotted off in a sort of half
satisfied fashion. apparently undecided
whether to be pleased with the out
come of the encounter or not.
1.-The first time | ever saw a timber
WOLF continued Countess de st. Pierre,
Il thought it was a dog. and did not
shoot. The animal loped away with
the pee liar swinging gait that Is char
acteristic of the wolf, and l returned
to camp. When l informed my guides
that / came neal shooting a dog they
laughed. and after exchanging several
comments in their native tongue ex-
planned that l had met a wolf
In discussing nature taking, Countess
de st. Pierre said: II doubt IL a tim
Der wolf could ever kill an elk or a
moose. although such claims have been
made by writer's. A timber wolf, so my
guides informed me, never travels
alone. The Indians say that a wolf,
unaccompanied, would hesitate to, at
tack anything more dangerous than a
rabbit but three or four timber wolves
will give battle to any animal that
roams the woods. And in most cases
they are successful. We found a num-
Der of zeal carcasses, and the guides
explained that the monsters lac fallen
victims to the attacks of wolves. |
am informed that wolves are subject
to hydrophobia. When in this condi-
ton a timber wolf will fling itself upon
anything from a man to a
lion. But such cases are rare.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
THE POPULAR FAT MAN.

Was there ever a fat man who wasn't
popular with his fellows? Of course
there have been some, but they are the
exceptions. Let me have men about
me that are fat says Shakespeare's
Caesar, and the remark consists with
that sure judgment of men that consti-
tuted a chief element in Caesars great
ness. For steady reliability and inabil-
ity to see or act crookedly your aver
age fat man is distinguished. He is the
embodiment Of good nature. Even when
he has the moral %looseness of a
Falstaff, he is a lovable rascal. Some
times he is sluggish of intellect, but he
is usually firm of character and with a
heart as big as his body. Remember
the boy they used to call Fatty" at
school and you'll bring to mind a boy
that everybody liked. look at the fat
men around you and you'll usually find
a sturdy influence for good in the COM
munity. You are sure to find the sunny
temper, the ever-present smile, the con-
stant j~oviality that seem almost neces-
sarily to accompany the accumulation
Of avoirdupois.
Not the least element in the popu-
larity Of Secretary Taft is the fact that
he is a ia. man. Somehow or other Il
seems to bring him more humanity near
to us. The pert paragraphers'' in the
newspapers viii joke at his dimensions
round about. and the people will laugh.
But they will laugh in a spirit of real
affection and honest admiration. For
the genial Secretary of Wa is as big
OF brain as he is of body and heart
There is nothing sluggish in his make
Up. The Taft smile and the twinkle in
the Taft eye make friends for him on
sight. whether with Mikado or Gear
or the very least OF his fellow country
MIN it is all the same. His very size
inspires confidence, and the qualities Of
A-xaaraeter hat ha a-assazsez ia eornnaon