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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01

Detroit, Mich, Jan. 30.-The funeral
Of Senator Russell A. Alger took place
his afternoon from his home on Fort
street west. The service was brief and
as simple as possible, at this request OF
.he family. Interment was in Elm
wood cemetery. There was an impos-
Ing military escort in addition to the
committees from the United States
senate and house of representatives,
the state legislature and state officials.
Governor Warmers staff, judiciary,
city and county federal officials and
commanders and past commanders Of
the G. A.. r.. and the Loyal Legion.
Washington, d. c., Jan. 30.-Follow-
Ing the adjournment of the senate Sat
urday out of respect TO the memory
of senator Russell A. Alger. of Michi-
ran. the members attended the funeral
services in a body.
Thousands passed by the bier of the
ex-war secretary Sunday as the body
lay in state.
Detroit, Mich, Jan. 30.-All of the
Aleer interests are In excellent condi-
ticn. His companies are upon a
profitable basis and his investments
ere rendering a good account. His
business and financial affairs have
disposed so that his death at any time
could work no possible injury to them.
1t Is q long time since he has been
upon the street in the capacity of q
borrower and his financial affairs are
in excellent shape. The final adjust
ment will show General Alger died a
wealthy man in the broadcast sense as
well as a financier whose record will
admirably stand the closest scrutiny.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
WOMAN SURGEON
PLEADS FOR CANTEEN

washington, D. c., Jan. 29.-The ne
essity for the restoration of the can
.een in the American army is strongly
set forth in n letter from DIR. Anita
Newcomb MCGEE to Captain J. Walter
Mitchell. of the Spanish American Wal
Veterans association, DR.. McGee, wh0
was formerly an assistant urgeon in
h army n later organized q corps
of nurses unde the auspices OF the
Red Cross society for work among Jap
anese soldiers in the Russo-Japanese
war, gives her observations as to the
drink habit among the Japanese SOL
diers and tells OF the evil results fol-
lowing the adjustment OF h canteen
In the United States army.
DIR. MCGEE says:
Like everyone who knows something
OF the subject, / am heartily in favor
of giving our American soldiers their
club (called canteen), where they may
Ienjoy themselves harmlessly. AS Q
woman and as q physician, / deplore the
horrible results of making a man seek
his amusementS where he is liable to
fall a prey to the worst temptations.
and so i wish you speedy success in re-
establishing the canteen in the Amer
lean army.
Instead of u liquors, wines. etc..
the Japanese use a beverage they
prepare themselves, called sake, tast-
ing like sherry. served hot, but in
character like the light wines and
beer formerly supplied in our army
canteenS.
II saw this sake in Manchuria, where
1t was furnished as a part of the RAJ
ton when 1t was feasible to provide
1t. though the quantity was exceedingly
small, so that the effect was stimu-
lating not intoxicating. I have heard
that sometimes when the weather was
bitterly cold the daily sake a to be
disposed in the form of a froenz
lump, which was as big as a mans
thumb. In Hiroshima ] met from time
to time certain officers who were on
their way from Toxic to the front with
a quantity Of sake which the emperor
was sending as a gift to the troops In
celebration OF some victory. This drink
was also for sale by the post traders,
and yet the temperance OF the Japan
ese soldier was a wonder to my nurses
and myself. We saw tens Of thousands
OF them. but never did we see a soldier
drunk"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
BURNS CHILDREN WHEN
THEY PLAY WITH DOLLS

New York, Jan. 30.-Two little tots,
Nellie, aged Z years, n Jennie. two
years younger, told Magistrate House
in the Harlem police court how their
stepn.other, Mrs. Kate Cravius, had
branded them with a red hot stove
litter when in play they had made
too much noise.
Twice during the recital, the prisoner,
a woman of intelligent and pleasing
appearance, not more than 20, tainted.
When restored the woman admitted
that she had burned the children, but
said that at the time she vas possessed
by an u~naccountable mania.
The two girls, she said. had been
playing with their dolls until the noise
II confusion robbed her OF her rea-
son and left a resistless impulse TO
punish the little ones.
Selling the stove lid litter she pressed
the glowing end on the back OF the
right hand Of each child, causing scars
that the little ones will carry 20 their
raves.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
CALLS UPON CONGRESS
TO END POLYGAMY
Drastic Resolution introduced
in the Lower House of the
illinois Legislature.

Springfield, H., Jan. 29.--Mr. Gaum-
er, prohibition member from yermillion
county, introduced a joint resolution
~petitioning ongress to call a
ton to propose an anti-polygamy
amendment to the constitution OF the
United States. The resolution fol-
lows:
Whereas. 1t appears from investi-
cations recently made by the senate OF
the United States, and otherwise, that
polygamy still exists in certain places
In the United States, Notwithstanding
p%rohibitory statutes enacted by sew
eral states thereof: and,
Whereas. The practice of polygamy
is generally condemned by the people
of the United States, and there is de-
mand for more effectual prohibition
thereof, by placing the subject under
federal jurisdiction and control, at the
same time reserving to each state the
right to make n enforce it's own laws
relating to marriage and divorce; now,
therefore. be 1T
Call For a Convention.
Resolved, by the house of represent
atives, the n concurring herein.
That application be. and hereby is.
made to congress under provision of
article 6 of the constitution OF the
United States. for the calling of a con-
vention to propose an amendment to
the constitution of the United States.
whereby polygamy and polygamists'
Capitalization shall be prohibited, and
congress shall be given power to en-
force such prohibition by appropriate
legislation.
Resolved, That the legislatures of all
other states o. the United States now
in session, or when next convened, be,
and they hereby are respectfully re-
quested to join in this application by
adoption of this OF an equivalent reso-
luton.
Resolved, further, That the secre-
tary of state be, and he hereby is, au-
thorized to transmit to congress this
application and to the members of said
bodies representing this state therein;
also to transmit copies hereof to all
legislatures OF all other states of the
United States"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
COPPER TRUST CHARGES
MADE TO BONAPARTE

New York. Jan. 30.-President James
Noroton, Of the Northeastern Metal
Dealers association, has made public
q letter, which. on instructions from
the association, he has sent to Attor-.
ney General Bonaparte and which says
in part:
1--WE are prepared to prove:
THAT the copper trust, SO called, han
created an artificial scarcity OF copper
by storing large quantities at Butte,
Mont: Hoboken, N. T.; Perth Amboy,
n. j.; Bayonne, N. j.: Bisbee. Ariz.;
Cananea, Mexico: Houghton, Mich, and
other places known to our association
and refusing to sell 1t except in small
quantities.
I'VE submit that the present danger
to the trade is not so much the high
price OF copper as is the fear that the
price being held at IN artificial height
may be lowered suddenly should the
copper combination succeed IN selling
its stored up produce =. <e present
quotations."
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
POSTAL APPEAL
BOARD FAVORED
Joint Commission Wants Body
to Which Decisions May
Be Referred.

washington. D. c., Jan. 30.-The re-
port of the joint postal commission au-
thorized by the last session of congress
to investigate and report TO that body
it's conclusions on the operation and
effect OF the existing law relative to
second class mail matter and what
changes, If any should be made, has
drafted a Measure embodying such
changes as it thinks necessary. Among
the most important additions to exist
ing laws are:
A newspaper or other periodical may
be in part composed of advertisements
which are permanently inserted in, or
attached to the same, but such adver-
tisements shall not constitute more
than so per centum of the superficial
area of any issue of the publication nor
shall any advertisement be printed on
card, cloth or any substance other than
paper nor upon paper of any greater
weight than the text of such publica-
ton.
An issue of a newspaper or other
periodical may be composed OF parts or
sections, but all such parts or sections
shall be made of the same size, form
II weight OF paper and shall, when
taken together, form one complete and
identifiable whole.
a Three-Man Board.
The appointment of a postal appeals
committee is provided for to consist Of
three members to allow the proprietor
or publisher of any newspaper or per-
io6ical publication, the application for
the admission OF which into the second
class of mail matter has been denied
by the postmaster general, to appeal to
it and which commission shall hear,
consider and determine such appeal
with respect to matters Of facts as we'll
as TO law.
If, in the judgment Of the postmaster
general, the second class privilege of
any publication should be suspended,
revoked or annulled, he must submit
the case by petition or by information
TO the commission.
The construction or application of any
law or statute relating to classical
ton of mai matter made by the COM
mission shall be controlling on the post
office and all its employees unless over
ruled by some competent court of the
United States.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
DIE IN MINE,
EXPLOSION IN PRUSSIA

~Gaabruck, Rhenish Prussia, Jan. 3d.
over 400 coal miners were entonbed to-
day at Redon shaft by the explosion OF
fire damp. One hundred and twenty
FIVE corpses and many injured have
been taken out.
Lens. France, Jan. 2S.-A terrible dis
asier, involving the loss of many lives.
occurred I'm q coal mine at Lievi.:. In
the Courriers district today. The
catastrophe was due to an explosion OF
fire damp in one Of the pits.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
WITNESS AND GROSvENOR
CLASH AT A HEARING

Washington, d. c., Jan. 30.-"You are
The most insulting and contemplate
witness l ever saw before a committee
vas the retort of Representative Gros-
yenor to Professor Henry w. Elliott,
Of Cleveland, at a meeting of the house
ways and means committee today to
consider the Southland measure for
regulation Of sealing in Alaskan wa
ters.
You can't shut me UP. All this evil
1ence Is coming. 1t will go on the floor
Of the house." Elliott shouted in reply.
General Grosvenor will interfere
whenever he wants to. Take it into the
house as soon as you WISH" Grosvenor
yeplied.
The controversy arose through FL
liott's attempt TO read to the commit
tee much testimony concerning the case
Of j. Hamilton Lewis sealing vessel,
which was finally settled before The
Hague tribunal.
Members of the committee attempted
to explain to Elliott that the documents
he was reading were of no value in the
hearing, but he resented their inter-
ruptions n attacked them with
vehemence which afforded much
amusement to the committee and spec
tatOrs.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
RARE BERl-BERi ILL
APPEARS I'm CHEYENNE

Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 29.-The first
case of the rare oriental disease, beri-
treated in Union Pacific hospital. A
Japanese section hand on the Union
Pacific is the victim.
Other japanese are being watched
Tor fear the disease will spread.
Physicians from Denver. Salt Iako
and other western cities are Watching
the progress Of the ert-beri with In
tercst.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
AID DECLINED BY MRS.
STONEWALL JACKSON

Raleigh, n. c., Jan. 29.-The SEN
ate received today a letter from Mrs.
"Stonewalp' Jackson. declining to ac-
cept a pension Of 500 a month
IL appreciate this patriotic tribute to
the name OF my hero husband" she
says. but I do not feel / would be JUS
titled in accepting i. I'm informed
the laws Of North Carolina limit all
pensions TO those who have not $500
In personal property, and as | do not
come under this law. / respectfully re-
quest that the bill be withdrawn"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
BLAMED DOCTOR FOR
WIFE'S DEATh--HELD
IN MURDER CASE
Ex-Street Car Conductor Ar
rested Following Killing Of
c.. w. Townsend.

New York, Jan. 3o.-Suspected OF
knowing something about the death OF
DR.. Charles w Townsend, of Staten
island, mysteriously murdered Friday,
the police have arrested John Bell, a
former street car conductor. 1t is re-
ported Bell blamed Townsend for the
death of his wife a year ago after an
operation attending childbirth.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01

Washington, D. c., Jan. 30.-Charg-
ng that although the land office and IN
ierior department since 1900 have spent
q, ZOO, 900 in following up, ~uncoverlng
md prosecuting frauds against the land
avs, not one-third of l per cent. or
homestead entries has been vacated,
Senator Carte, of Montana, followed
Wy other in the upper house Will to-
morrow launch n campaign against
Secretary Hitchcock. They will take
10 the operation Of the timber and
stone act, under which it has been al
eyed that wholesale frauds have been
committed, and will undertake to show
hat instead of reeking and fostering
with corruption, the operations of that
Jaw have developed q remarkably small
proportion Of fraud and crime.
1t will b. alleged that the adminis-
ration of the homestead laws OF this
country is driving American homeseek-
FRS out of the United States. n that
Canada is getting the very cream or
emigrants from the middle western
states. while the far western states are
getting very few
1t is expected that very little Will be
lone in the senate the coming week
aside from discussion of this subject.
Among senators who VIII talk on the
subject are Carter. of Montana, Clark
of Wyoming, Hepburn. Of Idaho, Flint
and Perkins, of California, Long, Of
Kansas, and probably as many others.
whose states are deeply interested IN
this question.
Senator Carter declares the whole de-
velopment Of the west is at stake and
tina people who would like to locate
In the United States are going by pref
erence to Canada, where instead of five
years of uninterrupted residence, as re-
uuired in this country, there is re-
CURED only three years Of residence.
But this is not all Of the grievance
Of the western states. 1t is charged
further hat the administration OF the
forest reserve law has resulted in Great
ing huge areas of forest reserves which
are withdrawn from settlement and
development, with the result that in eff
feet the available areas of the states
are reduced to this extent. The states
cannot grow when large proportions Of
their lands are being held out from pos
Vibility of development In this fashion.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
WAR ON
HITCHCOCK IN BEHALF
OF PUBLIC DOMAIN
Carter Claims Homestead Sys-
EN- Is Driving Settlers Across
the Canadian Border.
STATES CANNOT GROW
Westerners Claim the Holding Out OF
Huge Forest Reserve Areas
Has a Detrimental
Effect.
STATES CANNOT GROW
NORTH DAKOTA
SO PROSPEROUS 1T
is UNHAPPY.

Washington, d. c., Jan. So.-Rep-
re~sentative Marshall, Of North Da-
kota, declares while there is a
shortage of fuel at some points In
North Dakota and danger of short
g at others, growing primarily out
of the so called a shortage and
later continual snowstorms, North
Dakota is in no need Of financial
assistance. The a shortage be
says, grew largely out of the en-
ormous crops raised throughout the
state, and the consequent expansion
of business far beyond all ordinary
limits, which literally swamped the
railroads. not only with products
going out of the state. but with
merchandise and materials coming
in"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
HUNDREDS DROWNED IN FLOOD

Hong KONG, jan. "a terrific rain
squall broke over Hong Kong this
morning and IN ten minutes sank over
fifty Chinese craft in the harhor.
More than ic0 natives drowned.
There were. 10 casualties among the
wnia. po~-
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
WAS "WILFUL MURDER

london, Jan. yO.-A verdict OF will
full murder was rendered by the cor
oner's jury today against Horace
George Rayner. who shot and killed
William Whiteley. the West Bourne
Grove merchant January "a. Tie mo-
tive for the crime remains q mystery.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-01
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Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-27
THINGS TO BE FOUGHT FOR.

There are many young men and
women who rebel against the con
ditions of life in which they ind
themselves, and delule themselves
with dreams of great things if only
the practical problem of living
from day to day were out Of the
way. Of course tragedies some
times grow out of adverse circumstan-
ces; and genuine gifts, at rare inter
walls possibly even genius, beaten
down by the iron hand of weakness,
isolation or ignorance; but conditions
that cannot be overcome are really
very unusual, and the men and
women of rare gift are very few who
cannot make path to some kind Of
education and some opportunity to
do the work on which they have set
their hearts. The great majority who
cry out against circumstances and
count themselves victims of fate are
deluding themselves; if they had
deep passion for the thing they talk
about they would find way to it, and
in finding way they would learn
how to do the thing they have in
mind. The attempt to get the re-
>sults of schooling without going
through the drudgery of the school
has never succeeded, and never will
succeed. A stern angel, sword in
hand, guards the gates of the finer
kinds of success and suffers no one
to enter who has not waited and en-
dured and worked and overcome.
There are short cuts to fortune but
none to art or beauty or character;
these are things that must be fought
for. The great majority of those
who want to follow the arts instead
of doing equally honorable but more
obscure work, do not attain success
because they are not willing to pay
the price.-Kind Words.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-27
Facts and Fancies for the Fireside

undesirable to the Socialist party
He believes in the cardinal Ameri-
can doctrine that toll is glorious and
entitled to just compensation, while
idieness is not only contemplate,
but calls for elimination.
The most thorough-going Socialist
IN all history was Louis XIV. of
France, who proclaimed the dire doc
trine, "L'etat c'est moi" He was
the state, the whole farm, factory
aud law-making forge. Everything in
France belonged to king, clergy and
nobility. Public ownership with
vengeance! Every toiler labored for
the common good; but the common
good meant according to the only
power authorized to define 1.-THE
benefit of the privileged class only.
The trusts are privileged now.
Theodore Roosevelt would efface
these privileges. The bureaucracies
that Socialism would establish to
run railroads, telegraphs, telephones
and all other public utilities were
trusts just as odious and grinding
as any the woMd ever saw. from Nero
to Napoleon, from Hannibal to Har-
riman Undesirable, indeed, is The
odore Roosevelt to the idle, the out
law and the disturber; but very de-
sirable to those true lovers of Amer
lean institutions, the bread-winners
Of the land.-Louisville Herald.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-27

and that's the best he will do.
About the same time, along comes
the bunco man again.
"Have you heard anything!" he
asks the lawyer.
Yes, got check here for $15O-
he wants to compromise for that fig
ure, the lawyer answers, "and it
seems to me that you will do we'll to
settle on that basis
The bogus farmer or icon" man
reluctantly agrees to the compro-
mise. The check is made payable to
the lawyer.
"Come with me to the bank" says
the legal light, "and we1l get this
check cashed."
The lawyer takes $25 for his fee
and hands $125 to his supposed
client.
That might be the end of the in
cident, BUT TT ISN'T.
A few days later it develops that
the check is a forgery, that the real
farmer whose name had been borrow
ed did not owe anybody's son $3.50
for farm labor, that no horse has
been killed and that the whole trans
action was a slick trick on the law
yer.
How the "con'' man manages to
get hold of the letter the lawyer
sends, how he duplicates the sigma
ture-well, these are tricks of the
bunco trade with which we are not
familiar.
Anyway, the econ" man has some
way of doing it, for, according to
newspaper reports, he has worked
some very good lawyers in Manhat-
tan, Clay Center and several other
Kansas towns.
DO YOU BLAME THE FARMER
FOR LAUGHTNG?-Farmers' Advo-
cate, Topeka.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-27
THE FARMERS TURN TO
LAUGH.

Photographers and cartoonists in
funny papers have long portrayed
the farmer as the easy mark of gold
brick peddlers and confidence men in
general. True enough, the farmer Of
an earlier era may have once In a
while bought gold brick or he may
wagered money on the ancient pad
lock game, but even 50, it is now his
turn to laugh-to laugh at the gull
bility of the astute lawyer!
Think Of it,
Lawyers are supposed to be the
most erudite, the most astute, of any
branch of human endeavor, but
paradoxical as it may seem, several
Kansas lawyers have recently been
"worked" " on a game in which a
bunco man operates under the guise
of a farmer. Newspapers all over
the state and elsewhere have been ex-
plotting the story, and with the pub
icity now prevailing it is hardly
probable that much further work
along that line can be accomplished.
The bunco man, garbed in overalls
and looking in general like a farmer,
calls on lawyer-usually one who is
well known-and explains that he
has a son who desires to collect pay
ment for services rendered to some
wealthy farmer in distant part of
the county. The farmer is amply
able to pay, the bunco man explains,
but there is a dispute over the death
of horse which was driven by the
boy. The amount involved is $3.50.
Will the lawyer undertake to collect
it? OF course. Then he writes a
letter to the farmer who is said to
owe the debt, asking him to settle.
This is a sure-enough farmer-no
myth) In a few days the LAWYER re-
ceives letter in which the farmer
encloses a cehck for $3.50, saying that
he will compromise for that amount