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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
Discrimination in Rates.
PLOT TO WRECK JAIL Fo,LED.
Can of NitrogIycerin Found in the Gel
of a Murderer.


Chicago, May 21.-Decisive action
trated a Jail delivery plot that might
have resulted in many deaths by the
blowing up the wall of the Cook
county Jail.
Jailer Whitman recently became
aware that a plot was being perfected
and a close watch was kept. Develop
ments showed that the ringleader in
the scheme vas Charles Hansen, I'M
der sentence for life for the murder of
Luke Fitzpatrick, a policeman.
Several notes referring gGardedly to
the scheme had been intercepted and
yesterday when Jailer Whitman was
certain that certain prisoners contem-
plated blowing a hole in the wall of
the Jail Hansen was brought into
court without warning and ordered
sent Immediately to the p~enitentiary
at Joliet. He was not allowed to re-
turn to his cell.
Finding he could not return to his
cage, Hansen said to the guard de-
s%pondently: We'll, you'd better look
in there and be mighty careful.
lHeies d can ol nllfoSlycefln III
there"
An investigation was made and the
explosive discovered. The nitroglyc-
erin was concealed in a fruit cam, a
number of which, to lull suspicion, had
been delivered to Hansen.
h plot. according to a confession
made by Hansen later, contemplated
blowing out the wall of the old mart
of the Jail. According to Jailer Whit
man there We're about sixteen men in
the plot.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
BIG HARVEST FOR BROKERS.
Past Week Was Historic One in An
nails Of CHICAGO Board.

Chicago, May 81. = The past week.
With it's dollar wheat" has been a
historic one in the annals of the Chi
cago board Of trade. While statistics
on the quantity of wheat that changed
hands are not obtainable, the asser-
tlons of veteran traders that the vol
M of business was of. unDrece-
dented proportions ma be safely &C.
cepted. There have been wild sessions
in the wheat pit before, notably when
corners were being run, when prices
f~uctuated more violently. when small
cliques made or lost-mostly lost-im-
posing fortunes, but never before has
there been a broader or better sustain
ed general market. Never before have
grain brokers lone a larger business.
Crop reports, private and public, the
solemn verdicts of %"experts,' statis-
tics, official and unofficial, crop esti-
mates and the enticing literature OF
the commission houses, which are
growing rich on commissions alone,
vary noticeably in detail, but they are
practically united in the statement
that h world cannot grow this year
all the wheat it needs to consume.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
ALfONSO'S HEIR CHRIS7FNFD
TINY MITE OF ROYALTY HAS
LONG STRING OF NAMES
CONFERRED ON 1T,

Madrid, May 21.-With even more
pomp and ceremony than attended his
i1rst presentation May 10 to the off.
Gals on the day of his birth. Alfonso
prince of the Asturias, was baptized
at noon Saturday in the private chanel
OF the royal palace in the presence OF
the royal family, the state officials and
court, OF the representatives of for.
eisn powers and a host of %grandees
holders of the various Spanish orders
and other important personages.
The names given the tiny mite of
royalty are: Alfonso Pho Cristino Ed.
nardo Francisco Guellermo Carlos En-.
Iique Fernando Antonio.
The pope was represented by Car.
dlnal Rinaldini, the papal nuncio.
King Edward by Prince Arthur of
Connaught. Emperor William hv
Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern. EN-
peror Francis Joseph by Archduke Eu-
gene of Austria and King Charles OF
Portugal by the duke of Oporto.
The ceremony of giving the names
of the royal child was only of short du-
ration.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
PANIC CAUSED BY INDICTMENTS
TIMBER WOLVES OF NORTHERN
IDAHO ALARMED BY LAND
INVESTIGATIONS.

Boise, Idaho, May 19. - The North
Idaho timber wolves who are indicted
for conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment of timber lands valued at 81 ,0o0.-
600 are in a panic. The federal grand
jury. which recently conducted inve0
LEGATIONS here under the direction of
Attorney Ruick, returned seven indict-
ments against the leading business
men in and around Lewiston. They
We're made public yesterday and are
the second batch leveled at these same
leading citizens.
Men Are Prominent.
The mel named in new indictments
are:
W. f. ~kettenbach, banker; George
II. Hester, banker; j. B. West, lawyer
and politician. |. n. Smith, one of the
best known lawyers in the state; Will
liam Doller, banker at Occur d'Alene
City; Clarence Robnett and William
Dwyer, timber dealer.
Would Avoid Trial.
Trials on the first indictments were
now in session in Moscow. The de-
Tense is making every effort to evade
trial. Dwyer and Robnett, who were
tried for subornation of perjury at the
last session, are under conviction.
Senator Borah, who was counsel for
all the defendants, has withdrawn on
the ground that he was misled by his
clients. They told him, he says, that
the government had no evidence
against them.
Want Rounds Dismissed.
The bankers are accused OF putting
up the money for DUMMIES" who
filed on timber lands and then turned
the claims yer to the Weyerhaeuser
syndicate. The lawyers who repre-
sented the bankers and the syndicate
are indicted for conspiracy. The de-
Tense is making desperate efforts to
have United States Marshal Rounds
removed because he gave out the
story of how the fraud was worked.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
More Disclosures by Ruef.


San Francisco, May 19.-Abraham
Ruef yesterday. in his second appear
ance before tie grand jury, testified
regarding the Parkside Traction COM
pany deal, by which, according to the
line of attack laid down by the prose-
cution, the directorate of the Parkside
corporation paid to Ruef the sum of
100000 to secure a franchise to en-
nance enormously the value of the
lots comprising the Parkside real es-
tate tract. The information in the
possession of the prosecution is that
of this sum $1,000 was to be paid to
each of the eighteen supervisors for
voting the franchise and that the re-
naming $4,000 was to be shared
evenly by Ruef and Schmitz.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24

Grant Mcleod and Walter Ietchell
convicted on the charge Of stealing
cattle. given stiff sentences by
Judge Stewart at Helena. the former
drawing ten years and the latter two
years.
Anisia Louise de Massey, popularity
! known as the Baroness de Massey
recently convicted of having killed
Gustav Simon in New York, was sen.
fenced to seven years and five months
in prison.
Following a quarrel, Christian Mil
Ter, a butcher of ST. Louis, shot at his
wife and missed her. AS a policeman
entered the room Miller committed
suicide. apparently having believed
that he had killed her.
Because he whipped his twelve-year-
old SON for playing baseball on Sunday
J. HI. Arnold, a travelling revivalist,
was sentenced to six months on the
rockpile at Athens, Ca. Physicians
testified that the boy might not re-
cover
Alex McCanna committed suicide at
lshpeming, Mich, by taking strych-
nine in whisky, McCanna was blown
up by dynamite while assisting in
breaking a log jam a few years ago
and his mind had been affected ever
since.
His mind unbalanced, the result of
%brooding over the loss OF a hand
crushed in machinery a year ago,
Charles Larson, pumpman in the m
ploy Of the Newport Mining company
at Marquette. Mich, put an end to his
life by shooting himself in the temple.
In a strike riot at the railroad yards
In Gibson. Ind, twenty-five laborers,
mostly Hungarians, We're injured.
Some OF the injured are not expected
to live. Hammond police were called
and succeeded in arresting three OF
ne ringleaders. Bricks, clubs and
knives were used in the riot.
Thomas Brady, a miner OF Butte, is
suffering from a fractured skull, which
may cause his death. Brady, it is al
legged, while under the influence OF
liquor abused his wife. He then taunt-
ed his fifteen-year-old stepson for not
protecting his mother. The hoy there
upon struck the man on the head with
an ak, fracturing his skull. The boy
was arrested.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
ACCUSES BRIBER PRosERs.
Sch.nitz Makes Sensational Charges
Against Spreckels and Associates.

sch'nitz Makes Sensational Charge.
Against Spreckels and Associates.
San Francisco, May 81. - District
Attorney Langdon was served by May
or Schmitz's attorneys with notices of
a motion for substitution of trial judge
on The ground that Judge Frank H.
Dunno is disqualified by bias and pref
udice.
Accompanying his motion is a
lengthy affidavit by Schmitz, in which
charges of an extremely sensational
nature are made against Rudolph
~Spreckels. his associates in the brib-
cry graft prosecution and Judge
Dunno himself.
The Allegations.
Among SchmitZ's allegations are the
following:
That Mr.. Spreckels and those who
are with him, the financial ~guarantors
of the bribery graft investigation and
prosecution, long since exhausted the
original fund of 100000 pledged by
Spreckels n have expended nearly
81, 900, 600 in a municipal reform cam
paign.
That the expenditure of this vast
sum of money is by way of an invest
ment from which actual moneyed re-
turns are expected.
That Spreckels and his prosecuting
associates plan to overthrow the
present administration in order thai
they themselves may assume the reins
OF government and secure for them
selves street railway and water fran
chises that will net them millions of
dollars of the public money.
Says Judge Knows 1t.
That Judge Dunno is aware of this
intent and purpose, and is Herewith
in accord.
That the conviction of Schmitz is
desired as a means to these ends, and
that it is the wish of Judge Dunno
that a biased and %preiudiced jury be
selected to secure such conviction.
That for that and various reasons
set forth recently by Abraham Ruef in
his application for a substitute for
trial judge, 1t is impossible for
Schmitz to have a fair and impartial
trial at the hands of Judge Dunno.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
Domestic.

Mrs. Archie Campbell of Waterloo,
Iowa, gave birth to a child which
weighed just one pound and eight
ounces. The child was perfectly form
ed and well developed.
Sixty thousand dollars is the sum
collected by the woman's board of for
eign missions Of the Reformed Church
of America, as announced at. the thir-
ty-third annual meeting in New York.
For over two weeks Andrew H.
Simpson has been in a cataleptic state
at Worcester, Mass, and doctors fear
he will die without regaining con
seriousness. For years Simpson has
been IN ardent student of hypnotism.
He hypnotized himself and all efforts
to bring him to consciousness have
failed.
Mrs. S. S. Miles of Des Moines has
received from visby. Sweden, $100
which was taken from her by pick.
pockets in Bridgeport, Conn, two
years ago. Who the thief was she has
no idea.
The identity Of a woman Of twenty.
nine years, who has been in the city
hospital at st. Louis for several
weeks registered as a pauper. has
been established, and it is found that
she is Mrs. Rose Sheridan Of Mont
real, Can, and instead Of being desti
tute 10 heir to 4 n ssstats Of $4,000, OoC
In England.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
Accidental Happeninas.

Fire at Webster City, Iowa, destroy
ed the plant of the Webster City Steel
Radiator company. Loss, $50, 900.
The large -four mills at Chihuahua.
Mex, owned by Ambassador Creel,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,000 900.
The Union Abattoir company's plant
at Montreal, the largest abattoir in
the city, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$50, 900.
Six persons were injured, a num-
Der OF frame buildings we're unroofed
and many windows were broken by a
storm in Kansas City, Kan.
A fourstory building in Chicago
occupied by the Chicago Feather
Buster company was destroyed by
fire, causing a loss of 800, 900.
AS II. A. Scott stepped from a pas
senger train at Mason City, Iowa, he
was struck by a switch engine. Both
legs were severed and he died three
hours later.
Erwin Graham, sixteen years of
age, was run down by a hose cart 60
ing to a fire at Fairfield, Iowa, and
his skull was crushed. He died soon
afterward.
The schooner Nsagamore, with a car
go of coal aboard for Boston, was
sunk in collision with an unknown
Norwegian steamer near Bedford.
Mass. The latter is also supposed to
have gone down with all her crew.
Its kerosene-bathed wings ahame
from coming in contact with a burning
cigar dropped to the floor by it's sleep
Ing owner, a pet canary bird flew into
the kitchen at the home of Patrick
Dooley Ut Cleveland and caused an ex-
plosion that wrecked the interior of
the structure.
William Kenney, an employee Of a
distillery at Walkerville, Ont, was
drowned in a vat or whisky mash. In
some unknown manner Kennedy fell
into the %fermenting vat and his body
was discovered there at midnight. He
had entered the employ Of the dis
tillery only last Friday.
Running fifty miles an hour, a pas
senger train collided with a string Of
twelve runaway freight cars and was
wrecked nea Ell Paso, Tex. Engineer
Neal B. McGinnis was caught under
the tender and crushed to death. Fire
man Pat Sullivan is still living, but
is so badly scalded that he cannot sur
vive.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
1000 SWEAR THEY'RE ILL.
Make Affidavit and Get Liquor at Drug
Stores,


Bismarck, N. D., May 19.-Temper-
ance Commissioner Murray says that
in the month of April there were 1000
aftidavits made at drug stores in this
state in order to secure pints (the
maximum to be had in any one day
under the law of whisky for the cure
of the disease of cold" and disease
Of stomach"
The commissioner has been looking
over the affidavit books in the county
court and feels constrained to remark
thai he does not propose to shut up
the blind pigs and then allow the drug
stores to sell the goods under cover
of aftidavits. He is working out a plan
to catch the druggists. Before the
pigs were closed the sales by all the
drug stores showed but 200 or 800 aft
daVitS per month.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
EUROPEAN WAR is EVENTUAL.
Franco-Jap Entente to Contain Clause
Regarding Such Emergency.

st. Petersburg, May 19.-The Paris
correspondent Of the Russ, in a dis
patch published yesterday, announced
that he had obtained information from
authentic sources to the effect that the
Franco-Japanese agreement, now in
course of negotiation. will contain Sc
cret conditions applying to the even
tuality of a European war and binding
Japan to place at the disposal of
France 100000 men. while the British
will land a contingent of 100. 900 to
10000 men. Great Britain and France,
it is added. not only guarantee the in
volatility of Japanese territory, but
also engage to float several loans. The
statements made are received with in
credulity in diplomatic circles here.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
Sheriff DESTROYS LIQUOR.

Independence. Kan. May II. The
sheriff of this county here yesterday
destroyed $1,000 worth Of liquor in the
street. The liquor was seized some
time ago from saloons in the county
The destruction was witnessed by an
immense crowd Of people.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
PLOT TO KILL KAISER.

Shot Is Fired at Automobile Preceding
Emperor's Car.
Berlin, May 10. According to the
Mittag .Zeitung, what may have been
an attempt to shoot the kaiser occur
red in the neighborhood of Wiesbaden.
An automobile was running between
two villages when a revolver was fired
at it. The bullet passed harmlessly
over the heads of the occupants. Ten
minutes later the kaiser's car passed.
1t is assumed hat the person who
fired the shot mistook the first car for
that Of his majesty.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
SAVES FAMILY IN FIRE.
Man Fights Way Through Flames to
Wife and Babv.

sault Ste. Marie, Mich. May I'll
Returning home at an early hour yes
terday morning. John Erickson found
his dwelling in flames. He fought his
way through the flames to a bed room
where his wife and baby girl were
asleep. Wrapping them in blankets
he again broke through the fiery wall
and saved their lives. All sustained
severe burns.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
AMERICANS IN TROUBLE.
Charged With subjecting Mexican
Poems to Cruelties.

Vera Cruz, Mex, May 19.-Charged
with subjecting poems in his employ
to such crnelties that some of them
died from the effects, H. Miller, a mil
lionaire American has been arrested
in the town of Acayucan, in this state,
and is being held in Jail pending an in
v~estigation.
Miller is general manager of the
Miller Plantation company and the
San Juan Sugar company, in both of
which he is deeply interested. He
threatens to make an international
question of the matter.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
Free Mai, for watonwan.

Washington. May 21.-Complete ru-
raj delivery service has been ordered
established in Watonwan county, Min.
nesota, effective July 16, with nineteen
routes. of which one. at Louisville.
will be new.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
Criminal.

Galsumino Yacovini, an Italian, shot
and killed himself accidentally while
hunting in the country north of Glen
dive, Mont
After being wheeled into a hair
dresser's to get his hair combed,
Charles Murray. a paralytic of Sioux
City, drew a revolver and sem a bull
let crashing through his brain.
William G. Robinson was arrested
IN New York charged with passing a
worthless check for $55. Robinson is
credited with having spent $25, 900 in
= brief areer
Because he stole 1850 from his
landlady to go to his mothers funeral
1T Iron Mountain, Mich, James Gun
dy was bound over t. the grand 1ur,
1T Rock Island, Ill.
John g. Sterling, convicted of house
breaking on twenty-one charges. q,
Winnipeg, vas sentenced to twenty
four years in the Stony Mountain pen
itentiary.
Details Of q confession made b,
william o. Douglass. former loar
clerk Of the Trust Company Of Ameri
q, made public in New York, are I,
the effect that, acting on the advice o
8 lawyer, he planned to steal $1,000,
600 Of securities in order to compe
The trust company to overlook hi
ninor thefts. Douglas has alread,
pleadsd guilty to larceny and IL await
1Ag sentence.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
President Goes to Country,

Charlottesville, Va, May 19.-Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt and their son
Archie are at Pine Knot. Mrs. Roose-
velt's country home in the southern
part of Albemarle county, where they
will remain until the middle of next
week.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
Two Children suffocated.

Greensboro, May 21.-Two children
of John Goodlin were s%uffocated at
Scott Haven, near here. A lamp left
in the room where the children were
sleeping had exploded, setting fire to
the furnishings.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
HAS MONOPOLY OF
OIL INDUSTRY
STANDARD OIL METHODS Elk
POSED BY COMMISSIONER
OF CORPORATIONS.
TRUST IS R0UNDlY SCORED
DESTROYS COMPETITION BY ITS
ABUSE OF TRANSPORTATION
FACILITIES.

Washington, May 21.-That the his
tory n present operation of the
Standard Oil interests shows
throughout the past tlirty-tive years
d substantial monopolization of the pc
troleum industry of h country, a de
llberate destruction of competition
and a consequent control of that in
dustry by less than a dozen men,
who have reaped enormous prof
its therefrom," largely through abuse
of transportation facilities, is charged
in a report just submitted to President
Roosevelt by Commissioner of Corpo-
rations Herbert Knox Smith.
Some Facts Withheld.
Certain information acquired is
withheld for the present, in accord
ance with instructions OF the presi-
dent. who feels that its publication
might interfere With The prosecution
of the governments suits against the
Standard Oil company and it's subsidi-
airy companies.
The report contains the net results
of a study OF the petroleum business
during the year 1904.
1t is the first official statement of
the operations and methods of the
Standard Oil company. by which, the
report states, through "scandalous
railway determinations and other
unlawful devices, it has secured and
maintained an %"eXclusive domination
of the petroleum industry"
Has Monopoly in Oil.
1t is stated that in 1904 the Stand
ard and affiliated concerns refined
over "a per per cent of the crude Oil
run through retineries; produced
more thar Sc per cent of the country's
total output of Illuminating oil: main
tanned a similar proportion of the eX-
port trade in Illuminating oil and
transported through pipe lines nearly
nine-tenths of the rud oil of the old
err fields and 9S per cent Of the crude
oil of the midcontinent fields"
The report says that the monopoly
enjoyed by the company does not rest
on the ownership of the source of the
oil supply, which mounts to about
only one-siXth of the total, but that
its growth and present power rest pri-
marily on the control Of the transport
tation facilities.'
Discrimination in Rates.
After the railroad rebate was aban-
doned. the report continues, the COM
pany was able to establish a system
of secret or open discrimination of
rates in its favor throughout practi-
cally the entire country. Having es-
,ablished its monopoly of the pipe line
business, the company substantially
refuses to act as a common carrier"
The report adds that the Standard
controls not only the wholesale but
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
Ruef Tells About Bribery.

San Francisco, May 1S. - Abraham
Ruef yesterday made good his declara-
ration of Wednesday hat he would,
following his change of plea to guilty
in the extortion case against him, turn
states evidence and assist the bribery
graft prosecution in it's campaign
against municipal corruption. Ruef,
obeying a subpoena, went to the grand
jury chamber, where he submitted to
an examination that lasted from 800
O'Clock until after 5 p. m. When the
ordeal was over he said that he had
promised the grand jury to divulge
nothing.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
ashinQton

Commissioner Ballinger of the gen
raj land office, has designated July l
next as the date for the opening OF
the Chippewa Indian reservation in
Minnesota. There are 229. 297 acres of
the land. The reservation will be
opened under the homestead laws.
The cruiser Baltimore. lying at the
navy yard at Brooklyn. has been taken
out OF commission. 1t is said that the
Baltimore will be converted into a
mine-laying vessel. The Baltimore was
n Of Dewey's tleet at the battle of
Manila.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
Standard Cuts Dividend.

New York, May 1.-THE directors
of the Standard Oil company declared
a quarterly dividend of 50 per share.
This compares with a dividend of SIS
declared three months ago.