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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26
BRIDGE GONE, FARMER
DRIVES INTO RIVER
BED AND IS KILLED

Yankton, S. D.. Sept. 1s.-while 60.
Ing across country Saturday night. Tom
Sharkey. a well-to-do farmer OF this
place. drove over Il twenty-foot m
bankment and was crushed to death
on the rocks below in IA creek bed. The
bridge had been washed out.
Early Sunday morning his BODY was
found. The team and buggy were tiRh-
ly wedged in the debris of the bridge.
One horse was dead. He leaves a wife
and one child.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26
BANDITS BLOW SAFE
AT LEELA, S. D., AND
SECURE OVER $1,000

aberdeen s. D.. Sept; le.-Three BAN
early this morning at Leela, wrecked,
the safe and escaped with over 81, 200.
The robbers were seen by the watch
man, but 10 accurate description AN.
be given.
They went through from Wetonka in
q boxcar. 1t Is believed. and made their
escape on a hand car, coming in the
direction of Aberdeen.
h police here are on the watch and
arrests are expected to be made in a
few hours. The entire country has been
.otiied and 1t is almost impossible for
the bandits to escape. The office and
bank building were badly wrecked.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

The new Venezuelan national leper
hospital OF the seashore near La
Guaira has been completed and is now,
ready for occupancy. The old hospital
In Caracas has been abandoned ana
the 10 leper patients have been trans
ferred to the new hospital. The new
hospital IL a large and commodious
building and Is in an isolated spot on
h seashore between Cape Blanco and
MaiQuetia,
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

The Iadian government Is. it is said,
considering the d~esirability Of using
motor transport wagons for freight in:
moving produce of out Of the way
districts to market. This is quite prac-
ticable.. considering the good roads OF
the plains In India. and 1t would solve
a problem that has perplexed the koy-
eminent.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

Two German bacteriologists claim to
have discovered an effective serum
against typhus-fever. 1t Is obtained
from horses. and, as the result OF many
tests carried out Independently in Ber-,
lin. Vienna and Prague. 1t has been
shown to assuage the fever, regularize
h pulse and arrest d%iarrohea. The
names of the bacteriologists are Meyer
ard Bergell,
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

Louis Brennan. inventor of the mon
orail train, IL an Irish ustralian. who
had already acquired fame and for
tune from the torpedo which he elab-
GRATED during years OF patient study
and experiment In AN unpretentioua
back street OF Melbourne. He Is u
native of Castlebar. in the west OF Ire
land, and as u boy OF II arrived In
Melbourne with hts emigrating parents
In 1853. Apprenticed To a civil en-
gineer he displayed unusual aptitude
in the mastery OF details. He WAS only
% when the first idea of his torpedo
occurred to him and from that time un-,
til he was 35. when the invention was
purchased by the British war office for
$3.50. 600. he was working night and day
to bring 1t to perfection and interest
naval and military authorities IN its
powers and pOtentialities.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26
GREGORY TO HAVE
WATERWoRKs SYsrEM

Gregory. 6. D.. Sept. 16.-The latter
part OF this week the city council OF
ms place will ope bids for the con-
stfuction Of a municipal system OF wa.
eesworks here. II the bids are found
70 be satisfactory the contract for tho
construction Of the system will Do
at once. SO the work OF con-
SSrucSon can commence this fall.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26
Ex GOVERNOR Ice
MAY RUN For AENAre

vermillion. 8. D.. Sept. lit IA
rumored throughout south Dakets
that Ex-Governor Andrew e Lee. Of
this place. will be the democrstic can.
didate for United States senator next
year. 1t g said that many repubii.
rams would vastly prefer Lee to III.
trsdSe II 1t came to q choice.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

Lord Kelvin. who has the distinction
of having occupied q chair in a univer-
sity longer than n professor living
and who won great fame before being
elevated to the peerage US Sir William
Thompson. has had innumerable honors
conferred on him in England, France.
Germany. Belgium and the United
States. He IL now in his S3d year.
but shows no signs OF diminishing ac-
tivity or lack of Intellectual owe
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

Ona Danish gardener has succeeded
In growing edelweiss. the Alpine flower,
peculiar to the dizziest heights Of the
Swiss Alps. The gardener il export
Swiss hotels, where they are sold to
tourists.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

In Melbourne. a movement has been
started to erect a statue of John Bat
man. the founder OF that city. Seventy
W years have passed since Batinan.
after tying his boat close to II tree
where The Melbourne custom house
now stands, wrote in his diary: This
Will be he place for II village" The
village is now a city with u population
OF more than 500. 900. Batman did not
live to see more than the small be-
gtnnings of the city he founded.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

The noble families of Prussian, Po-
land. nave become so numerous as al
most to swamp the common people Of
the province. The priest Of the village
of Konitz replied to q circular issued,
by the government that every one Of
the 400 families in his congregation
vas OF noble birth.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26
WEALTHY pEADWoop
MAN PREFERS BASEBALL
TO BUSINESS CAREER.

Deadwood. s. d., Sept. 1s.-Al-
though he has received word that
he is the sole heir to an estate of
10000 left him by a brother who
Charles Swing. a well known local
baseball player, has announced his
intention Of remaining a member Of
the Deadwood Hose company team.
on which he has won honurs.
Swing has received part Of the es.
tate Of his only brother but il so
much OF a baseball crank that he
refuses to give up that ~profession
for a good opportunity offered him
In business In the east.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26
PARKER EDITOR ON
BOARD OF CHARITIES

Parker, S. D.. Sept. 1S.-w. H. King.
editor of the Parker Press. Leader. has
been appointed as secretary of the state
board OF charities and corrections, sue
ceeding w. f. Upton. OF Mitchell. re-
signed.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

At the tobacco exhibition In London
some rome made cigerets At the rate
81 40 IN thirty minutes.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

France has no old age Insurance
~ spent in relief to aged natives.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

The gold production Of the world In
1909 put the total at &405. 900, 900, an in
crease OF nearly 100. 000. 900 over 1905. In
Africa alone he increase was t2l, 900.
The United States with q total Of S9S,-
100000. made an increase Of 100000.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

There are tobacco lands In thi,
country which are bringing their own
ers q yearly pront OF 5000 an acre.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

The town Of orsen. Sweden. 10 with
out tpxes. The necessary revenues are
derived frem : forest reservation.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

At the University OF Kansas a ply
sician has been appointed to look after
sick students away from home: to con-
suit with students In all matters re-
lating to health, and to prevent. when
possible. trivial matters from becoming
serious: to provide necessary medical
services gratuitously to those who are
making their way through the univer-
sity: to work with the university health
committee in seeking out and eliminat-
ing special sources of infection, and in
preventing the spread OF infectious and
contagious diseases among the students
Of the university.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

It Is announced from HaXeltOn. Pa,
that the Lehigh Valley Coal company
has opened at Lattimer what is be
lieved to be the largest stripping in the
world-a solid bed Of anthracite H.
300 feet wide and thirty feet In thick =
ness. extending from Lattimcr to Drift
ton. a distance OF at least six miles.
1t is estimated that with an output
OF 500 ton IL day 1t would require
steady operation for two hundred and
fifty years to exhaust the newly dis
covered deposit.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-09-26

Bread is not the only product OF the
breadfruit tree. From it cement. cloth.
finder and lumber are also obtained. A
glutinous. milky Juice Oozes from the
trunk Of the tree. which make an
excellent cement when boiled with CO.
cOanut oil. From the fibrous inner
bark n kind OF coarse cloth Is made,
and the big leaves make good towels.
The lumber Is used for building houses
and many other purposes. Besides all
this the dried blossoms are used as
inder when fires are kiudled.
The oasis., 1907-07-27
MINING NEWS.

Prescott Courier; At the Scopel Hotel can be seen very handsome specimen of ore from the claims which Geo. P. Harrington and Otto Libardon are developing in the Bradshaw mountains. This ore, 1t sstated carries values of S200 a ton.
 Yuma Enterprise: Mir. Van Wagenen, superintendent of the D'Luce mines at Castle Dome, reports that he has sunk 300 feet and is now drifting to the vein. A strong stringer of lead and silver was recently encountered which indicates that the vein Is near and rich.
 Yuma Sentinel: The Badger Hall prospect in the Paradise dis trict bids fair to become a promi- neEt mine. B. J. Ames of Bristol, Conn, is president of the company and says that they intend to push things to the front this summer as rapidly as possible. A lot of devel- opment work is being done on two tunnels they are driving.
 Yuma Enterprise: Pomona, Riverside and Yuma owners of the American Flag mine are getting ready to operate it. They have a seven-stamp mill on the property and are waiting to lay 23-inch water pipe 34 miles from the mine to a we'll in the river bottom. The mine is 74 miles northwest of Palo Verde. The Hodges boys of Yuma are interested in 1t.
 Prescott Courier: President and Superintendent A. J. Carroll, of the Carroll Gold and Copper Com pany, has the new hoist on the conpany's property in operation and expects to be shipping ore by
The oasis., 1907-07-27

the middle of next month. The
 stock in this company is now sells
 Ing for 25 cents, but will probably
 be withdrawn from Che market or
 advanced as soon az orc shipments
 commence.
 Yuma Enterprise; ton
 Evans, general manager of the Sig
 nal Copper Company, owning the Copper Prince group of mines in the Bill Williams Fork section, has gone to New York, where he ex- poets to complete the deal for the sale of the property to eastern cop per interests. The mines are among the best of the copper prop critics of the northern Yuma county copper belt.
 Prescott Journal Today S2S,- GOO will be paid over to the former owners of the Monica group of mines, in the Kirkland district, by the Monica Mines Syndicate, as an installment on the purchase price, which makes $73000 in all paid to date. The amount reached one of the local banks here yesterday from Morgan Tillinghast of Phila- Pa, and the money will be paid over today by Attorney General E. $. Clark, leading attor- ney of the concern.
 Stafford Journal: Claim holders, representing about twenty-seven acres of Navajo county coal lands, held an important in this city Monday night and action was taken looking toward the development of this property. A commit tee, consisting of Peter Anderson, Thomas Cunningham and a Mir. Gray was appointed to visit the and give them thorough | examination. If found satisfactory extensive development work will be commenced immediately, the expense to be met by pro rata assessment, and all claim holders to share equally in the profits no matter from whose claim the fuel is being taken.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03
How PoelI Lost Leg and Won a Medal

above the ankle was literally torn of. His
right arm was broken. 1t was upon this
side that he had been dragged over the
and bruised. He was taken on to st.
Joseph and there taken to hospital. The
attending physicians tried to save as much
OF the leg as possible and amputated half
way between the ankle and knee. But the
ligaments were so badly torn that II was
later necessary to amputate once more and
this time just below the knee. The frac-
ture Of his arm was reduced. but later
second operation for this member was also
necessary, this being performed after his
return some months later to Grand Island
Poell gradually recovered and late In
the summer of 1906 was able by the use
OF crutches occasionally to come down.
town. The democrats placed him in nom
nation for county clerk. and, though he ran
against an excellent candidate on the re-
publican ticket, a man with an unlmpeach-
able record in every respect, who had been
nominated several weeks previous. he was
elected and has been since conducting the
Office. He has secured an artificial leg
and walks without the use OF cane or
crutch. though defect In the walk Is
noticeable. He received much aid from
the father OF the child he saved, a station
agent at Powell who did all he possibly
could by the sale of the pictures of poell
and the boy and a picture showing the
position the fireman was in when he hurled
the LITTLE one from the track.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03

times ill-treated by the other races and
are still compelled to do certain mental
things. When they first came they we're
required to wear black clothes and shoes
and they had to go on foot as they passed
through the cities. Today they wear black
skull caps, black slippers, and long black
coats, belted In at the waist. In the Ber-
Der districts the Jews have curls hanging
down In front of their ears, but otherwise
thy dress like the Berbers
About the only women's faces one secs in
this country are those of the Jewesses. The
Moors and the Berbers hide their beauty
behind the cotton sheets or wooden blank
cts which they drape about their heads
when they go out. The younger Jewesses
are often good looking. They have fine
dark eyes and ivory white skins, with
cheeks tnged with the hue of a dark moss
rose The older women run to much flesh
and seem coarse
The dress of the Jewish women is much
like that worn by the sex IN our country.
save that the richer ones use gold en-
broidery for trimming. They wear silk
handkerchlefs tied about the head, half con-
cealing the forehead and covering most OF
the hair. These Jews marry young. Girls
are often betrothed at or years, are
sometimes married at 10 and have children
at ID The marriage tie is not strong and
divorces are common.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03

blonde ouTls. 10 use his own language at
the time, "he could see bobbing up and
down" A thought came to him, and there
was no time for a second thought He
jumped out on the running board alongside
pilot. He had grabbed the drawbar with
one hand and was resting on one foot,
when tho locomotive was upon the child.
Grabbing the little one neroely with the
other he swept It on the track II rolled
to the SIDE where II was later picked up
by a trainman and restored to the arms
OF its frantic but grateful mother.
But Poell had not had time to secure a
good footing. The impetus given him when
he threw the child from the track caused
him to lose his footing, he believes. At all
events he no sooner saw the child leave
the track when-and It was almost in the
same instant-his foot was caught in some
thing. His hold with the other arm was
wrenched loose His body partially fell,
but instead of falling to the ground part
Of his clothing was caught in a steam cock
underneath the cylinder and close to the
rails and he was dragged alongside the
engine On over the rough ties he was
bumped and dragged. A bridge was ahead
or rather . trestle over this, too, the
body was dragged II finally fell to the
ground. A moment later the train came
to stop and the fellow members of his
crew Immediately went to his rescue and
that OF the child.
1t was in q pitiful condition that PoeIl
was tSunA His left feet from . httIs
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03

Of the United States having no direct
steamship connection with this part of the
continent We have several vessels a
week which call at Gibraltar, over the
way, but none of these stop at Tangier.
We are buying a large amount of goat
skins OF Morocco, but about the only thing
which It is using directly from US is coal
OIL Its people dress largely in cottons,
and their goods are made of our raw ma
terials, which are shipped in the bale to
England and there manufactured for this
trade.
During some years we pay as much as
100000 to Morocco In 1906 we bought from
It $4,000 worth of goat skins, and we take
some Of its wool and fruits. which go via
England.
'Srhe total trade of Morocco" says our
consul general, now amounts to something
like S20,C00,O00 a year. and of this England
gets more than half. France comes next
and then Spain and Germany. The German
trade is still small, but it is rapidly gain
ing"
made a hunt through the bazars here
today for American goods, and amongst
other places visited the largest fancy gro
Gerry store in Tangier. told the Jew clerk
to show me samples of all the American
articles he had, and he brought out coal
oil, corned beef cornmeal and cocktails.
The bottles of cocktails came from New
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03
FRANK @. CARPENTER.

He has always been interested In medical
society work and for twenty years has
been a member of the State Medical assoc
citation, OF which organization he is at this
time president.
Dr. Long is essentially a self made man.
"a plodding country Doctor as he calls
himself who by patience and perseverance
has attained a prominent place in the pro.
fesston, az evidenced by tho official position
he now holds. and has accumulated con-
Siderable property In his home county con-
sistinS valuable farm lands. bank stockH
and a nice home. DR.. Long was married
to Miss Maggie Miller at West Peint, Neb.,
and the family consists Of three interestina
daughters. Frances Louise. soienoe teacher
In the high school Of North Platte, Harriet,
a Junior at the University Of Nebraska ana
Margaret At hounA.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03

quarters are known as mellahs, and they
are among the most squalid parts OF every
city. Their streets are narrow and dirty.
The front doors are little more than holes
In the walls, and most of the houses con-
tain many small rooms, in which the PEG.
pie are herded. The homes OF the rich are
much better.
The mellahs are governed by the Jewa
themselves. They elect a council and q
Judiciary. and they have the right OF appeal
from the latter to the Moorish governor.
The rabbis are about the most influential Of
the Jews. The people are religious ana
attend their synagosues regularly. They
do no business on Saturday. which is the
Jewish Sabbath. and on that day many OF
them will not even open business letter.
l attended one of their synagogues here. 10
was a dark little room, surrounded bY
dwellings
The Jews now have their own schools in
Morocco and a great deal of work has been
done among them lately by the Universal
Jewish alliance. This alliance is now car
rying on schools ut Tnnger. Tetuan Mo-
gador. Marrakech and Fee, in which thera
are more than $500 children They are Civ
ing the young Jews a sort of modern edu-
cation, although much of the time is de.
voted to teaching of Hebrew ana Spanish.
They also teach French and English, geog-
raphy and other studies In the reorgani-
cation OF Morocco. which is bound to come
about sooner or later these children, with
their knowledge of the modern languages
and Of Arabic, as well, may form an inn
portant factor.
FRANK q. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03

OF DR.. Francis A. Long. president of the
State Medical association. who delivered
the address Of the evening.
DR.. Long was born near Rreidersville
Northampton county, Pennsylvania, B,eb-
ruary 16, 1853, and came to Iowa with his
parents In early manhood, where he
finished the first two years of a high school
course. He then engaged In teaching and
by the means obtained from this source
worked his way through a medical course,
graduating from the medical department
Of the Iowa State University in 1882 He
located in Madison, Neb., the same year.
being then q years Of age, and has con.
tinued in practice at that place ever sinoa
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03

FAINT child of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Ussary Of
Powell. Neb., but lost g leg and barely
escaped death. For this act Of heroism he
has since been awarded a medal OF honor
from congress, under the act OF February
of that year, and has just received formal
notice from the Carnegie Hero commission
of an award of a medal and of $3.50 in cash
20 pay Off the remaining mortgage on his
modest little cottage home In Grand Is
land.
1t was bright day in JunA Poall was
nring for a freight train that was pulling
for Hanover from Grand Island. 1t was
nearing midday when the train approached
Powell, near the Kansas Nebraska line.
The train was heavier than usual that
morning. The engine was just rounding
curve and had struck a down grade when
the fireman saw soma distance ahead. q
child on the track. The whistle was
blown. The child's attention was at
tracted. But. In It's innocence. It merely
looked and then. as II somewhat alarmed.
yet not knowing which way TO turn. Il
began running down the track away from
the engine. The freight train was In full
speed. Poell realised At once that. though
the brakes were at onos applied. the long
string OF cars could by no manner Of
means be brought to stop before the loco
motive overlook The little child. Whose
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03

He is supposed to be a secret agent OF the
British government and TO keep the Eng
lish posted as 10 trade and diplomatic af-
fairs
As to the Germans, they are gathering
trade information in all sorts Of ways. I
met here a white-faced. blond-bearded
man. dressed in full Moorish costume. who
was talking Arabic and who I found could
recite the Koran from beginning to end.
He turned out to be a German In the en-
ploy Of the ksisers commercial organiza-
lions, and his business is to gather data
for the pushing OF German goods. He has
Travelled as Moor through all the coast
towns, and has gone inland from Mogador
TO Morocco City and from there to Fee.
He has full information about the patterns
of the cottons and other goods most de-
sired here. and the Germans will be soon
making haicks, burnouses, djellabas and
the other dresses of these outlandish peo-
pie. s-. -..-.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03
SforoOoo's BiE Possibilities.

As soon as the powers determine TO take
hold of the country every nation will be
sending its trade representatives here.
The Germans and. French have already
done 20. and the English have a man at
court In the person of Kaid Mclean, who
was brought in to reorgainze the sultan's
army, and who has grown fat off the job.