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Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
VESSELS OF PACIFIC
FLEET WIN TROPHIES
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, May 18.-The vessels of
the Pacific fleet have won every trophy
for every class except battleships for
the whole navy.
1t became known yesterday that the
Preble had beaten the worlds record
for torpedo and in striking moving tar
gets. The Boston broke the worlds
record with her six-inch and eight
inch guns
The Charleston made fine records
with six-inch gun and several smaller
guns. The naval trophy for best shoot
ing of the cruiser class was won by
the Boston.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
KANSAS CITY Police
WILL NOW BE GIVEN A
COMPLETE OVERHAULING
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
4 KANSAS CITY, Mo-. May 49, +
4 There will be a complete reorgani- !
!. zation of the Kansas City police i
i department as a result of the in i
!. vestigation that is to be begun !
i here next Tuesday by the local +
!. board of police commissioners. i
+ The shakeup will include sew i
i eral of those higher up. This state !
!. ment was made late today by an !
+ official high in authority, and !
j. coming on top Of a two days per- i
j. sonal investigation of the situa- i
!. tion by Governor Folk, is taken to i
J. mean that sensational results may !
i be expected to follow closely after /
i the meeting of the board next /
!. week. i
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
BANKS AND EXPRESS
COMPANIES MAY CLASH
By Associated Press.


CHICAGO, May 1S.-Rapid growth of
the banking business done by certain
express companies, to the detriment Of
the business OF nearly every chartered
bank in the United States, has resulted
in drastic action on the political COM
mittee appointed some time ago to iu-
vestigate the matter for the American
Bankers association.
The committee yesterday made public
it's report, in which the statement is
made that evidence has been secured
that certain express companies are
carrying on such banking businesses
while chartered as common carriers, a
violation of the interstate commerce
regulations.
All evidence thus far and hereafter
secured by the committee will be placed
in the hands of the committee for the
purpose of prosecuting the express COM
panies and stopping what the bankers
call 'illegitimate competition"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
CLAIMS PRICE OF
LIGHT WAS FIXED
Suit Started at st. Louis by Circuit
Attorney Against Public Utility
Company-Anti-Tru
Laws Violated
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, May 1S.-A suit institut-
ing quo warranto proceedings on behalf
of the state of Missouri was filed in the
circuit court today by Circuit Attorney
A. N. Sager against tie Union Electric
Light and Power company, charging it
with having entered into combination
to control and regulate the price of
electric light and power in violation of
the antitrust laws of the state.
Mr.. Sager stated that he would i'm
mediately follow the suit with similar
proceedings against another public util-
ity company.
1t is considered probable that spe-
cial commissioner will be appointed to
hear the evidence in the case.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
CRUISER CHICAGO
REACHES SAN DIEGO
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, May 1s.-The cruiser
Chicago, formerly a flagship of the
Pacific squadron, arrived this morning
from the south, and it is understood
that she will remain here several
weeks.
She did not get chance to come
north last winter, as she was turned
back when on her way here by wire
less message to go to Central America,
where trouble was brewing.
Her crew is glad to see the Stars
and Stripes on land once more. The
Boston will sail this afternoon for
Mare Island, where she will go out of
commission, her place being taken by
the Albany.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
READING TO PAY
TRIBUTE TO DEAD
Bodies of Seventeen Shriners Who
Met Death at Honda to Be
Laid to Rest in One
City
By Associated Press.

BY ASSoclated PreSS.
READING, Pa. May 1S.-Reading
organizations have been elaborately
preparing to pay tribute to those killed
in the Shriners wreck in California.
Eight of the twenty-nine bodies upon
the funeral train are to be delivered in
New York state and Ohio.
The remaining twenty-one are re-
mains of persons who belonged to Rajah
temple, and of these seventeen lived in
Reading.
AT 2 p. m. Monda7- the fire alarm
system will be tolled seventeen times.
The funerals will take place on Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday. All
business will be suspended next riday
from noon until p. nj. A joint me-
mortal parade under the auspices of
Rajah temple will be held.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
BALLOTS FOUND
TO Be FRAUDS
Recount of Votes Cast in Mayoralty
Election at Butte, Montana, Re-
~
suits in a Remarkable
Discovery
Rv A ssnciated Press.

BY Associated Press.
BUTTE, Mont, May 1S.-Counsel Tor
Jerry Mahoney, Democratic candidate
for mayor at the last municipal election
who contested the election of Mayor
Joseph Corby, this morning acknowl-
edged defeat.
Fifty-one ballots marked for Mahoney
were such palpable frauds that Ma
honey himself denounced them. When
the ballot sacks were taken from the
vaults of the city hall last Wednesday
the seals of several of them were
broken.
In two cases the ballots were patiently
erased and mutilated, and the contestor,
Mahoney, himself held them unfit for
evidence.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
FOUR MEN ARE BADLY
SCALDED BY STEAM

PITTSBURG, May 1S-Locked in the
steam room of the Washington park
natatorium last night, four men were
badly scalded by a sudden pressure of
steam. Three of the victims were Wis
itors and the fourth was an attendant.
The latter was so badly scalded that
his recovery is doubtful All were
taken to a hospital
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
MANY END LIVES
IN THE WINDY CITY
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 1S.-Five suicides
and two Attempts at self-destruction
were reported to the Chicago police
yesterday.
In three instances carbolic acid was
used, in two cases gas was inhaled,
one man tried to drown himself and
another hung himself to a bedpost in
hospital Ill health and dependency
was the cause in each case.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
GRAVES TO BE MARKED
BY Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, May 1S-The war
department will soon award the con-
tract for 10000 white marble stones to
mark the graves of Confederate SOL
d.ers and sailors who died in federal
prisons and hospitals in the north dur
ing the Civil war, and who were buried
near the place of their confinement.
This will be the first step toward ac-
tion by the government to mark these
graves.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
LOCAL.

Pasadena postoffice is robbed of $4,000
in stamps.
Formber Chinese Minister z. H. Conger
dies.
Petitions, containing 1000 signatures. de-
manding highway commission, will be
filed with supervisors Monday.
Judges of superior court will make Wig
orous investigation of the methods OF
some divorce lawyers.
Yachts at San Pedro ready for big re-
gatta today.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
WRITE FAREWELL MESSAGE
BEFORE MEETING FATE
By Associated Press.

BY ASSUCIdItU I eSS'
VICTORIA, B. c., May 1S.-C. Harri-
son of Massett, Queen Charlotte island,
reports finding bottle in which mes
sage was placed signed by several ladies'
who were victims of the Valencia dis
aster off the Vancouver island coast.
The message read:
I'VE are sinking off Vancouver
coast"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
THE DAYS NEWS
FORECAST

For Southern California: Fair
Sunday; light west wind. Maximum
temperature in Los Angeles yester-
day. rs degrees; minimum, So de-
grees.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
EASTERN

Fresbyterians. assembled at Column
bus. Ohio, unable to decide on methods
of fighting saloons.
New York and Washington clubman
shoots "cabby,' following quarrel over
a fare
Judge Wood, presiding at Boise In
Haywood case, advised by prosecuting
attorney to place muzzle on news
papers
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
Wilson Given Nine Years
BY Associated Press,

SAN. LUIS OBISPO, Cal, May 49,
Joseph Wilson, convicted of man
slaughter for shooting Fred ellison at
Creston last September, was today SEN
fenced to nine years at San Quentin.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
COAST

Members of committee of seven de-
clare San Francisco grafters must suf-
fer for their acts.
Cruiser Chicago arrives in San Diego
Vessels of Pacific coast fleet win tro-
nhieS.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
claw Comes 20 Naught

Efforts were Immediately made to
find this man. Officers were detailed TO
visit the different transfer companies
in Los Angeles. and the driver of nearly
every express wagon in the city was
put through a close questioning. still
tCOntinued ON Page TwOl
Douglas Island news., 1907-10-30
A1aska's Anniversary

The observance of the fortieth ami versary of the raising of the American flag over Alaska, by the Alaska Club, of Seattle, is of more than usual sig nilfcance at this time, says the Post Intelligencer. Not yet do the Ameri- can people fully appreciate the great value of this rich possession, and not yet has the American government shown that intimate care for Alaska's material and moral welfare it should have shown long since.
 But the light is breaking in upon the northern country. Forces are re. shaping this vast empire of natural wealth. Lines of communication are being opened up. New veins of wealth are being tapped and exploited Trade centers are building. Shrewd railroad CTS are eager to press their lines to the new sources of wealth, and, in fact, everywhere energies are making for greater Alaska, to be no longer looked upon as a stranger to the blessings of our constitutional system and friend less orphan of alien parentage, in the cold and cheerless north; for in the day to come, near.day of goodness and national sanity, Alaska will be ac- corded those rights which Alaskans are entitled to demand and receive at the hands of the federal government.
 What Alaska may be forty years from now, no man is desperate enough to guess: indeed, if some man, knowing the potentialities and possibilities of the northern country, should venture a guess in this behalf, there are sane men in this country who would look upon him as a drea mer of dreams inn possible of fruition. But, finally, whether the federal government shall discharge it's obligations early or late Alaska will fully meet the expectations of those who are now seeking the just constitutional rights of the territory, and who, in season and out of season, sing Alaskas praises and battle val iantly for Alaska's rights.
Douglas Island news., 1907-10-30

The Pacific Coast company makes the following financial statement for the year ending June 30. Gross earn ings, S7,4O6, ,495; net, s1 ,419,8 ,869; total net, S1, 1,480G73; charges, etc, S292,582 bal. ance, S1 ,2O9,O91; first preferred dividend 87G,25O; second preferred dividend, S24O,OOO; common dividend, S42O,OO0; surplus, S470,841. First preferred and common stock earnings equal 1927 per cent and show an increase over 1906.
 Just to show what a little advertising will do and how eager mining men are to secure copper mines in this district. c. D. Kippen of this place advertised in few papers recently for mining men with money to open up his prop critics near this city. Yesterday he re- ceived sixteen letters making offers and inquiry regarding the property. One applicant was so eager to get in on the "ground floor" that he enclosed a $500 check and asked MT. Kippen to hold the property until he could get here.-Cordoya Alaskan.
Douglas Island news., 1907-10-30
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody

The deepest shaft in the Panama Val. ley is 316 feet.
 The little government survey boat Taku will winter at Cordova.
 Dawson and Whiteh orse have already had a spell of zero weather. Nearly ninety per cent of the people of Fairbanks own their own homes.
 "Spud" Murphy, an old.timer of Haines, lighted the fire with kerosene.
 A newly welded Dawson couple went for their honeymoon in a benZine buggy.
 The discovery of the Tanana gold fields is credited to Felix Pedro, in the fall of 1902.
 The Santa Anna recently lost both of her anchors while battling with storms at Katalla.
 The output of the Tanana camp this year was more than 87,OOO,OOO, the labor strike there notwithstanding.
 Truman Palmer, of Indiana, is being endorsed for the Third district judge ship to succeed Judge Wickersham.
 On account of the storms at Katalla, a food shortage is predicted, as the steamers are unable to land cargoes.
 The S9,OOO,OOO of gold produced in the Tanana Valley in 1906 varied i'll values from S12.2O per ounce to Sl94O per ounce.
 L. K. Pratt, Fairbanks lawyer, was fined $500 by Judge Wickersham. It is hinted that Pratt's contempt was that much or more.
 The steamship companies to the Westward have announced that pas sengers will be landed at Katalla at their own risk.
 An account of the marriage of Dep uty Marshal Lewis l.. Bowers, at Hodi- ak last month, states that John J. Fol stad was "the" best man.
 A Valdez real estate agency offers for sale half interest in "good paying saloon at Latouch," and states that the profits of the concern are $2,O0O month.
 1 Good axemen are wanted to work clearing the townsite at Port Rupert, at compensation of 371a cents per hour, with promise of employment for six months.
 The pictures of Governors Hughes, Gillette, Chamberlain, Mead and Hog gait will be placed aboard the steam ship Governor on the Seattle-San Fran. cisco route.
 Major Richardson has been ordered to report personally at Washington on the Alaska road work. It is said to be doubtful whether an appropriation will be made for work next year.
Douglas Island news., 1907-10-30

During the present year fifty mem bers of the Alaska signal corps will be relieved. as their term of service in the Far North has been completed, and they will be given stations within the United States.
 Orders have been sent pr. M. w.. Glover, of the U. s. revenue cutter Rush, to report at Seattle, where, act iug under Dr. White, the government bubonic plague expert, he will take charge of the situation.
 Leroy Tozier, of Fairbanks, goes to the Juneau convention of the Republi- can party with eighteen proxies from the Tanaua. Fairbanks will demand the national committeeman from Alas ka. Tozier is instructed for Gale, self government and Taft.
 The American Tin Mining Co. recent Iy mads shipment of 54,O00 pounds of tin ore. This, with earlier shipments from other properties, will probably bring this years output of the York and Tin City camps to about 65 tons, valued at about 515,O0O.
 When copper dropped to B cents per pound last week, Robert Lowe came to the conclusion that there was little profit in mining ore and hauling it six miles to the depot and the result was that the Grafter mine was closed down Saturday evening.-Whitehorse Star.
 The federal court at Seattle granted an order, authorizing the receiver to sell the coal and copper matte belong ing to the Hadley shelter, and devote the proceeds to the payment of the la bor debt for the month of September. The matte was shipped to the Tacoma refinery.
 The principal producing creeks of the Fairbanks Mining District are Cleary, Dome, Vault, Fairbanks, Little EIdorado, O'Connor, Cripple, Ester, Goldstream, Pedro, Twin, Gilmore, Our, Chatanika, Chatham, Treasure, Big FL dorado, Fox, Engineer, Steele, Small wood, and their tributaries.
 Alleging that in his absence the Key noIds-Alaska Development Go. fraudu- Iently purchased his entire stock of lumbe in Seward, Alaska, at a greatly reduced price from the night watch man at his lumber yard, Michael White has brought suit against the company for 91218O, which be alleges he was cheated out of.
 MT. Marion Edwards, of the firm of Peters & Powell, Seattle attornrys, who is here in behalf of the New Haven Trust company, in it's foreclosure pro- ceedings against the Kasaan Bay Min ing company, went to Kasaan today on business relating to that matter. It is understood that the mortgaged proper ty, consisting of the Copper Queen and sixteen other mineral locations will be sold.-Ketchikan Miner.
 Charles N. Graham, the Barker Creek operator, who recently visited Dawson, reports that the fire which oc- cured on that creek burned down stream from the divide and destroyed every cabin on the creek save four which were located near Discovery. All the government bridges, numbering eleven, were destroyed. These bridges were put in under direction of Charles Macleod year or two ago.
Douglas Island news., 1907-10-30

At the Alaska Treadwell Mining Co.'s mills the stamps weigh 1,O50 lbs. and have a capacity of from 4.95 tons to 579 tons per stamp per day. At the Homestake, South Dakota, mills, the 85Olb stamp is used, crushing Az tons per stamp per 24 hrs. In the South Af- rican mills the stamps weigh 1900 to 1,4OO lbs, drop 10 inches at the rate of 100 drops per minute and crush from 5 tons to 5.75 tons per day. The highest known stamping record is 2-stamp mill crushing tons per stamp daily through 24 mesh screen; this is at the plant of the Tenero Mining & Milling Co.,, in Mexico.
 A press dispatch from Boston, Mass, says: Scores of resbyterian ministers throughout this state are hit hard by the failure of the bank at Valdez, Alas ka, and the trouble arising over the suspension of work on the Alaska Home railway at that place. EX-Go7. Brady enlisted nearly every Presbyteri- au minister, both of large and small means, to join the Reynolds Develop ment company. The mines of the com pany have made fair returns, but the last venture according to reports, has met with failure and many ministers will be reduced to poverty unless the bank should fortunately prove solvent.
 The Edmonton trail from Fort St. John to No. cabin on the old telegraph line. 80 miles north of HaZelton, has been completed by the N. w. M. P. after three seasons work, and is now one of the best pieces of work of it's kind on the continent. The route chos- en is one which can at very little cost be made into a good wagon road. The trail is eight feet wide for 4O8 miles, cut clean, rough graded, with innumerable small bridges. The work so far done on the trail from cabin No. to Atlin and the Yukon, has been blazing the trail by the Mounted Police, and next year will see work actively prosecuted along this seCtion.-Essington Sun.
 The Northern Navigation Company, which has been burning oil onits larger packets on the lower Yukon the last several seasons, has tested tho process sufficiently to pass the experimental stage and will put oil burners on some of it's other steamers next year. Twen- ty-two more men were required on each packet while burning wood than since oil has been introduced. In addition to the saving of help and original cost of fuel. the saving of time is big fac tor in this land of short seasons and long distances. On each packet four hours a day is saved by reducing the time of taking on fuel. The oil carriers of the Northern Navigation Company have distributed the fuel at several stations along the lower river in sutt1c- tent quantities to keep everything run hing smoothly until the new supply can be delivered next year. While the large steamers on the Yukon will be equipped with oil the smaller craft, plying the side streams, probably will be kept on wood diet. The oil is car ried from California to St. Michael in bulk by steamers engaged for the pur- pose. The oil is carried in the holds of the ships, where vast tanks are fitted for the particular purpose of storing the liquid fuel. It is removed from the ships holds by pumps or siphons.
Douglas Island news., 1907-10-30

If you are in need of range or a Heating Stove, go to Jules Jensen's, where you will get Square Deal. Dan- dy Banquet and Perfect Wonder Ranges in stock.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-05
Public Library Report.

The report of the Sisseton free
public library for month ending
March 81, 1907; is submitted as
follows:
Library open 81 days for circu-
lation of books, reading and ref
erence work.
Volumes issued 29O, a daily
average Of nine. The. reference
workers numbered ten. Twenty
magazines were issued and many
books used in the reading room
in this department of the work.
The total attendance was 947:
adults 318, children $50: a daily
average of thirty, and an in.
crease Of 203 over last month
The largest daily attendance wa:
sixty-three.
The Ladies Home Journal 70
1906 was given to the library b,
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-05
Shears and Sawbuck."

shears and SawbucH kept u store
Such ~ never was before.
City folks they wouldn't sell.
Wouldn't let EN- have n smell.
Fetched their money but by ling!
Couldn't buy IA blessed thing!
Couldn't meet EN- face % face
And then sell en- with good grace.
Country trade was what they sought
Folks who'd pay tor what they bought
Fore they saw ii hide or TAIL.
They scEd catalogues by mail
Out to every blessed one
Giltin' mail AT Possum Run.
We set mp mt night ana read
When we'd orter been to bed.
Book was bout as big as sin
Had a lot of pictures in,
And n list of merchandise,
lGv'ry kind and every size
Knocked out ev'ry country store.
Looked so straight and seemed so true
bit at it-Jim did, too.
.Iim's my ncighbor cross the way
Best man ever workedi in hay,
Just leu him top of Il stack
Sheds rain like IL turtles back.
Pleasure just to see him work,
Never knew oil Jim to shirk:
Swings Il scytbe like it vas play
Love TO watch HIM in the way.
Wen, we like Il pair of fools
Sent off-got some haydn tools:
JIM got harness and n pillow,
/ a range see it now:
Drat the thing, Ii was so light
Used it for n torch ut night;
Throw'd the darn thing in the ward
Use it now for renderin' lard.
Fore Jim used the pillow an hour
Found the blamed thing wouldn't scour;
Tried his harness-brolle II tug
Sough for solace in his Jug
In the cooler nil that night
Jim reflected on his plight;
In the morning. Richard Stout.
Hardware merchant, bailed him ont.
Jim said after that he'd stick
Close us bark to good OF Dick.
Since he left the Postum jail
SAYS he won't buy goods by mail.
Says Dicks cheaper. anyhow
Might have saved some on the pillow,
On the other goods some more,
at his Of friends hardware store.
jim says, I'VE can't sell no truck
To SIGH folks as Shears-Sawbuck.
They1ltake all our cash away,
But won't buy our corn or hay
Tha seemed purity strange to me,
So old oil Jim I'd see
So l wrote to them that night
just to see if lin was right,
Asked en- "What they'd pay for oatss
Could they use some likely shoats?
Had about four tons OF hay
Icould ship EN- right away.
Could l furnish Mr.. Shears
With his family roasting ears?
Also would my friend Suwbuck
Buy some OF my garden truck"
Answercame one summer day
Said they Couldn't use our hay,
Couldn't use our oats or ShoatS,
Didn't like our billie goats.
When they needed truck to eat
Bought 1t down on Water Street
Sorry, but they must refuse
Anything but cash to use"
I sit down and wrote 'em then:
Hate to trouble you again.
But 1 want to thank you. sirs.
For your bunch of cookie burrs:
II you love your Teller man,
DO him good, sirs while you can
While our merchant1sweetly sleep
Lshears and Sawbuck shear your Sheep
Curtis, Neb., Enterprise.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-05
Notice.

From and after April 18th,
1907, all the banks of Sisseton,
S. Oak, will close promptly at
four o'clock p. m.
The FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
By Henry S, Morris, V. Pres.
THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK,
By O. P. Rask, Cashier.
THE RESERVATION STATE BANK.
BY l.. j. Onstad, Cashier.