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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
NEW YORK.

Continued cold weather throughout the
country delays crop preparation and de-
~velopment. Injuries fruits, vegetables and
cotton. and dulls retail trade. Coinci
IDENTIFY, orders from and collections by
jobbers and wholesalers are affected, but
these latter branches of trade feel this
relatively less than in other years, be-
cause they are still very generally pushed
to complete deliveries on earlier orders.
Excluding New York, building is still
Tory active-in excess of a year ago, in
fact-and building materials and hard
ware are in demand. Labor is well en-
Eloyed, strikes are few and wage adj
vances are numerous. but new construc-
ton work is reported slowing down and
a more plentiful supply of unskilled la
Dor at lower prices is indicated.
business failures in the United States
FOR the week ending April IS number
16T, against 1914 last week and f61 in
the like week of 1906. Canadian failures
for the week number IS, against 2S last
week and % a year ago.
Wheat, including flour, exports from
he United States and Canada for
the week aggregated 3,1O2,467 bushels,
against 1,S31,105 last week, and 1,S44,-
1913 this week last year; for the last
forty-two weeks of the fiscal year. 49,
0S5,4S9 bushels, against 1O9,331,111 in
1906. Corn exports for the week are
1885, 622 bushels, against 1,4Io,719 last
week, and 1,673,972 a year ago; for the
fiscal year TO date, 57,999,2O bushels.
against 1O1,373,107 in 1905-6.-Brad-
~rsreet's Report.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
FRISCO RISES AGAIN.
Two.THiR0s REBUILT ON F'HSt
Anniversary OF DISASTER.
Over 1 Co., o O,o0G Expended In re
construction and 10000 "orkmen
Are Now Rusy-stricken CitSs
Amazing Recovery.


San Francisco correspondence
With a consciousness of a duty well
performed in rehabllitating her de-
stroyed commercial section San Fran
cisco has celebrated the first annlVer-
sary of her cataclysm. One year ago
saw the most awful experience that
ever befell an American city, when
earthquake and fire wrought their nor
rible ruin. To-day public utilities are
again In operation adequate to the needs
Of the city nearly two-thirds OF the
area of our square miles which at sun
set April 20, 1906, was a scene OF
blackened brick heaps and twisted met
al framework has been rebuilt and new
structures are still going up at a rapid
rate. Hence it was appropriate that
the principal commercial body of the
city should assemble at the banquet
table at the Fairmount Hotel the other
evening, with governors and mayors
OF other States and cities as their
guests, and celebrate the recovery with
joyous speech and song. How different
the scene from the windows Of the
Paramount Hotel about one year ago
and now.
Two thousand six hundred acres of
buildings, a large part in the very
heart of the business section, had been
swept away. Five hundred and four
teen city blocks had become a mass Of
smoking ruins. Nothing was left of
the wholesale and retail districts ey-
cept that here and there big steel
frame buildings stood, scorched but
firm. among the piles of bricks. Near
ly 60 miles of streets were impossible,
blocked by fallen walls. twisted wires
and iron trolley poles. Pavements and
sidewalks were ruined by the intense
heat. Two hundred thousand people
were homeless, Food supplie~ were
gone, clothing was gone, bedding was
gone. For nearly half the people
nothing was left but bare hands and
stout hearts. The property loss
amounted to a thousand millions. Men
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
CHICAGO FAMILY POISONED.
Father and MUth = Die and others
Arc Made Ill. 10 4.

Are NilAS ili F- "a
Deadly poison administered by a per
son with intent to annihllate an entlre
family has already filed two Chicago
rra yes, Three attempts within three
yvcaks were made. two of them while
police were on the case. This IS the Ter
rible fate of the Mette family.
by a mysterious, daring twentieth cell
tury adept, who batled the police ana
forces. Food-the home pre-
pared food of the Mette family-eaten
unsuspectingly and with all confidence
has been the medium of the murders
and attempted murders.
Last March 80, the entire FAMILY
consisting of Frank Mette, his wire,
daughter and three sons, was stricken
after eating fruit cake made by MIS-.
Nettc. Mrs. Mette died. 1t looked sus-
picious to the attending physician, and
the police were called in. Arsenic was
found in the flour. The only other wom-
an in the household, the daughter, MIS-
Mary Sladek, whose husband had just
left her after a quarrel, and VINO was
said to have twice attempted suicide
recently, was closely questioned, but
nothing developed.
Two weeks after the first illness and
after all the survivors had recovered,
one of them, the father, was again tax
en- III and died the next day. On the
day following Mary Sladek became III
and was taken to the hospital, when the
police again questioned her repeatedly
without developing a clew. This time
poison was found in the -four bin. And
two days after that, with the father
dead and sister in the hospital, the
boys, Joseph, Rudolph and Charles,
were again poisoned by eating oatmeal
in which poison had been placed. The
persistence of the poisoner made the
police frautic and terrorized the .Metts
family.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
'lEE MyA2NERS
SsS.slgysgMN, AAJRaSR-GO-
MW Y& N@ssssSr=
S0t 5000

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$4.O0 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat. No. 2. tic to 79c corn.
No. 2, acc to 4Sc; oats, standard, 41c to
43c; rye, No. 2, 69c to Tic; hay, timo-
thy, $500 to $3.50; prairie, 5000 to
$500; butter, choice creamery, 29c to
33c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 16c; potatoes,
Doc to SIC.
Observation-Disclosures, shipping, $500
to $6.15; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
500; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$5.75; wheat, No. 2, Toe to 76c; corn,
No. 2 white, 47c to 4Sc; oats, No. 2
white, 42c to 43c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $685.: sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, roc to soc; corn,
No. 2, 47c to 49c; oats, No. 2, 4Oc to
42c rye. No. 2, SIC to Csc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 1918;
hogs, $500 to $685.; sheep, $500 to
1928; wheat, No. 2, TIC to roc; corn,
No. 2 mixed, Acc to 47c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 42c to 43c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 74c.
Detroit-Cattie, $500 to $500; hogs,
wheat, No. 2, 7Sc to Soc; corn, No. 3
yellO"s " L = odiS, 11o. - La
45c to Acc; rye, No. 2, re to 74c.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 northern,
roc to SIC; corn, No. 8, 45c to 46c;
oats, standard, 42c to 43c; rye, No. l,
roc to 72c; barley, standard, roc to 72c;
pork, mess, $15.72.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $500; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $500; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500, to $S.75.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $685.;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
1926; wheat, No. 2 red, S3c to SIC;
corn, No. 2, SAC to 56c; oats, natural
white, 4Sc to soc; butter, SOC
to 34c; eggs, western, 15c to 1Sc.
tToledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 7Sc to
soc: corn, No. 2 mixed, 45c to Ate;
oats, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 46c; rye, No.
2. Csc to 69c clover seed, prime, $500.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
WHAT kind?" he inquired.
~Amundsen's DOG.

Captain Roald Amundsen applied to
tine Southern Pacific or passage east
for an Arctic sled dog. to which the
explorer is greatly attached. In refer
ring to the animal, Captain Amundsen
said:
''This faithful dog, which is attach
ed to me almost as much as I am to
him, Is the only one of his kind to h1sN
made the northwest passage. He y
starting out on a road to-day that, al.
though it may be better travelled than
the last one he went over, may not be
so much to his liking. He will have
the run of a baggage car, and the Off
Gals of the road have requested con-
ductors along the line to look out for
him. Although | know he will have
good care, | am very reluctant to part
from hlnn."-San Francisco Chronicle.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
All Around the Globe.

On the petition of the creditors Walter
K. Sharfer of Chambersburg, Pa, was
Amounted receiver for the Wolf Manu-
featuring Company. near Chambersburg.
The liabilities, it is said, will reach near
ly 100000.
Nathan Loeser of Cleveland, Ohio, was
Amounted trustee of the effects of o. l..
HAYS, the ~defaulting president of the
Gallon. Ohio. national bank. Voluntary
bankruptcy proceedings were begun by
Hays in the United States District Court.
recently.
The interstate commission at
Topeka named June Z as the date of
hearing at Washington the complaints
regarding alleged discrimination in grain
rates against Kansas shippers.
The United States cruiser Washington,
living at League island navy yard, was
presented with a handsome silver service
nv Col. N. r. Lindsay of Spokane on be-
half of the State of Washington.
Joseh varroi, a master mechanic EN-
loved nv the contractors who are digging
the Pennsylvania railroad TUNE under
the East river from Manhattan to Long
ISLAND City. was crushed to death IN .
stone crusher.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
what He said.

A lad in II of the London elemen-
tary schools was found guilty of a Sc
rious infraetion Of discipline, and was
directed by his teacher to tell his
mother when he got home what mis-
demeanor he had committed. The next
morning the school mistress called
Johnny to her desk, when the follow
ing dialogue ensued: Wei, Master
Johnnie, did YOU inform your mother
what infraction of discipline you were
guilty of yesterday. and the reprimand
and punishment you received?y
.'Yes'm," was the se~ntentious reply.
We'll. and what did your mother
say?" "She said she would like TO
wiring your neck for YOU" No more
discipline reports We're sent home to
that mother.-Brooklsn Citizen.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03

without hesifation I aorite to thank
Eoa for the great relief I haze found IN
vosr valuable medicine, Perand, and t1H
call the attention of all my friends
suffering soith catarrh to that fact. Be
sides 1 ohcerfuliV recommend 1t to all snf-
'fcring toith catarrh in any form."-1iiss
Dora Hayden, $40 9Th ST.. s.. W, Wash
in0ton. ID. @.
A Case of Spring catarrh.
Mrs. N. r. LawIcr, 423h N. Broadway,
Pittsburg, Kan, writes Last spring
caught a severe cold, which developed
into a serious case of catarrh. / felt weak
and sick, and could neither eat nor sleep
well.
"A member of our club who had been
cured of catarrh through the use Of Pc
runs advised me to try it, and l did so at
once I expected help, but nothing like
the wonderful change for the better l OBJ
served almost as soon as l started taking
1t. In three days l felt much better. and
within two weeks I was in fine health.
Peruna is a wonderful medicine"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03

Common salt, one pound; oxalic acid,
two ounces water, one gallon. Mix and
moisten with it a mixture containing one
part coal and three parts ashes, and a
better fuel than pure coal is obtained.
The ashes of anthracite coal burn as
readily as do those of bituminous coal.
This mixture will, upon being placed
upon a burning fire, fuse into a cokelike
mass and deposit but little residue.
Gilmore, who discovered the secret and
focused attention upon the possibilities
that lurked in ashes, says his patent will
protect him in his secret. While it is
conceded that Gilmore has conferred q
great boon upon humanity, it is feared
that he will not derive any tangible bene
fits from his discovery.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
PRIZE WINNER WAS FAkIR.
Potatoes He Entered at the Fair
Were from Grocer.

Potatoes He Entered at the Fair
Were Purchased from Grocer.
There is more than IL way of win
ming prizes at a country fair. When
the rubber neck from tile city looks
big .eit and sees the gigantic pumpkins
and huge potatoes he naturally thinks
these were brought to such proportions
By careful gardening, nursing by the
farmer who enters the exhibit. But
this isn't always true.
One OF the prizes for big spuds at
the WoIcott fair went to IL man who
came in f1om Watertown way, bought
some Choice potatoes at u market, took
'em out 70 Wolcott and copied one of
the I.rizes. He didn't even know what
Kind Of potatoes they We're.
The day before the air the farmer
went IEto Il Waterbury market. He
looked ever the stock and saw one bas-
ket OF potatoes of extraordinary size.
His eyes glistened and he picked out
hall q dozen of the largest in the bas-
kct.
WHAT kinda" he inquired.
The clerk didn't know obe potato
fcum another, but he said why, those
a.. .JoGnson's Beauties"
The spuds were duly labeled and
shipped to Wolcott. The Watertewn
man got one Of the prizes in a walk
and all the cult stood about him at
tle fair and complimented him upon
his enc crop of potatoes.
good soil to raise potatoes that SIZE"
they all remarked. And that wise farm
er said it surely did.-Hartsord, Conn,
Coulapt.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
LEGISLATION FOR EFFECT.
Many Bills introduced In Congress
s to Impress Constituents.

41any bills Introduced In
to Impress Constituents.
Less than 5 per cent of the bills in
troduced In Congress relate to public
business. Instead, they have to do
with matters bearing directly OF indl-
eectly on the Congressman's hope of re-
nomination and reelection. The total
number of house bills introduced dur
ing the first session of the Fifty-eighth
Congress Gncluding the special ses-
tsion}. was 1870. or these. only 1,645
were public measures. The other
1881 were private. Two hundred
land sixty-four public laws were enact
led and 1906 private laws. Much of
the proposed private legislation was
put In without any thought of its ulti-
mate passage; but, whether 1t was ex.
fpected to pass or not, and whether 1t
was pushed or not, the purpose of its
introduction was generally the same
to give an appearance Of activity and
influence "the boys at home.
About 35 per cent OF the Congress
men rely on river and harbor legisla.
ton to carry them through. Many
bills relating to proposed improve
sments are introduced which are not In
rcluded In the big general measures,
but sometimes they do almost as much
good 40 II they were passed, 50 far as
their effect on the voters is concerned.
especially II the introducer 10 of the
minority party. Then he can assert
that the demons Of the other side pre-
vented favorable action on his prof.
-ects. and thus kept Justice from her
throne.
MOI many years ago q man who had
gperslstsntly brought the claims OF q
pet project before the river and har-
committee broke down when he
His reiterated arguments were
having NJ effect
Gentlemen" he said, to the assem-
.bled committeeman, as he wiped the
tears from his eyes, "Ill be quite
frank with you. II l fail t get the
appropriation I am asking for I will
fall to get back to Congress-. / know
this II an unmanly exhibition, butt
means 80 much to me-" And the tears
to fow.-Success Magazine.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03


those three days. In the days that fol-
lowed 100000 people left the city and
practically all that remained were
compelled to live on the bounty of a
generous nation.
The Recovery.
In spite of the incubus Of a corrupt
municipal administration, the City Of
the Golden Gate is rapidly r~eassu-ning
shape. Great blocks of brick, con-
crete and stone are s%pringing up In
what a few short months g was a
desolate waste, among which stood
thousands of ruined walls, marking
the sites Of once proud business struc-
lures. Fifty thousand men are busy
rebuilding the city, and when the
work Is done and the last deep scar
left by the hurricane OF fire is re-
moved, San Francisco will be a greater,
richer and better city than ever be-
fore. The buildings that are going up
in nearly every case are better than
those the fire swept away. The old
city was constructed of wood, even in
a great part of the business section.
In all the down town districts now
f%reproof materials must be used in
buildings.
With ~feverish energy the work is
progressing. On many structures two
shifts working eight hours both are
employed, and from 8 in the morning
until midnight the sound of hammer
,-l -, o,J tho efoa1u grind NJ ann-
crete mixers can be heard. Within a
radius of five blocks from the corner
of Kearny and Market streets there
are in process of construction or re-
Mobilization 146 fireproof buildings.
Between June 1, 1906, and April /,
1907, permits were issued for the cree
ton Of S41 ireproof and semi-fireproof
buildings. Already the steep slopes
Of Telegraph and Russian hills are
covered thickly with wooden resi-
dences, while the downtown streets
are lined with business structures.
Conservative estimates show that
more than $10O,oOo,0oO has been
spent in reconstruction since the fire.
This amount would have been greatly
increased but for the difficulty of get
ting building materials. The railway
blockade which caused trouble through
out the country was felt with triple
force in San Francisco. The complete
reconstruction of manufacturing plants
well as the vast stores of goods and
building materials kept in stock here
left the rebuilding Of the city at the
mercy of the transportation companies.
About $4,000 men have been EN-
ployed in reconstruction work and the
number is steadily growing. These
have received an average of $3.50
a day each, which brings the total
paid to labor alone nearly to the $40.-
10000 mark. The remarkable wage
secured by skilled mechanics have
served 10 increase enormously the
cost of reconstruction, but they have
drawn toilers from all parts of the
country and 50 fastened the progress
OF reconstruction. 1t Is estimated that
at least S5o,ooO.Ooo has been spent in,
building materials.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
ASH FUEL SECRET OUT.
Chemists Discover Formula
Burning Coal Ashes.

The remarkable ash burning secret dis,
covered by John Fillmore. an Altoona,
Pa, cobbler, which has excited attention
almost the world over, is common prop
erty. Several ~well-known chemists, i'm,
mediately it was announced that Gilmore
had solved the problem of obtaining heat
from ashes, set to work to try to discover
the formula. They were successful, and
hara if is.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
Between Friends.

Miss Tartun-Archie Feathertop tells
me you are advising him to spend his
vacation this summer in the Swiss noun
Gains.
Mrs. Chiliicon- Kearney Yes; I
Thought that IL I could induce him to fall
down some precipice I would be doing
= real favor to you. dear.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
ON ana on.

when was your play put on?'' said
the friend.
1T was put on answered Mr..
Stormington Barnes, Eat Hartford and
it was put of just before it got to New
York..-washington Star.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03

II will make my fortune or never see
love again." l said to myself in des-
peration as | turned my back on The
Chase; but in my heart / felt it was a
forlorn hope.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03

ibid Catesby marry for love?'
Yes, poor fellow, and he got nothing
but money."-Detroit Free Press.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03

The rose DOR fades, but the thorn
continues to do business at the old
stand.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03
AfraiA to Ask Too 11ueA.

First Legislator see q Kansas man
has declared "a pass Is a bride. and any
man ought to be too big to accept such
Z small bribe.
Second Legislator-Well, of course,
that's true. but 1t would look kinder
small fer us to 60 further and ask the
railroads 10 puy US fer ridln', wouldn't
t7-Kansas City Times.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03

So aN
MI. Justwed-It's SO sweet Of you to
agree that we must economic. But do
You think you can get along without a
cook7
Mr.. Justwed-Oh, yes. Well have
al our meals sen In BY q caterer
Cleveland Leader.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-03

worth millions became paupers In
those three days. In the days that fol-
lowed 100000 people left the city and
practically all that remained were
compelled to live on the bounty of a
generous nation.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-01
CHILEAN VOLCANO
IN ERUPTION
Country for Miles About In Province
Of La Union Devastated--Great
Loss OF Life Feared.

Valparaiso, Chile, July 1.--Terrible
havoc has been wrought In the La
Union district in the vicinity of the
volcano Val Davia which suddenly
became active. 1t Is feared that many
people have perished and the entire
valley country for miles has been de-
yastated.
The course of, the Papasuin River
was stopped by an immense dam
which was formed by lava and heat
ed rocks heaved from the crater. An
extensive lake soon formed and the
waters of which filled the valley AZ
to the crater.
The water began to boil and as il
continued to rise its pressure swept
away the dam and the entire neigh
borhood was inundated by the pent
up waters which swept everything be
fore it, Everything living was killed
How many people lost their lives may
never be known. Fourteen corpses
were found among the steaming de
bris.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-01
NEW YORK FACES
SERIOUS EPIDEMIC
Renewed Efforts Made Today to
Break Strike Of Street Cleaners
and Ice Men.

New York, July Renewed ef
forts were made today by the street
cleaning department to obtain men to
break the strike of the drivers. While
the health department is aiding the
street cleaning department in remov,
ing piles ct refuse. the work Is
slow and menace and the serious
ness grows daily greater. Mayor Nc
Clelland believes the strike will be
broken today, when he has hopes
that many Of the old drivers will re-
turn TO work. The conditions on the
east side are becoming intolerable
Great heaps of decayed garbage and
filth ill the streets, making the pas
sage Of ears and trucks difficult.
Police QuelI Disturbances.
The police reserves were called up
on to t.uell several street disorders to
day when the American Ice Compan,
made an effort to break the strike O
the delivery wagon drivers. The ict
company declares that the strike vii
be br3keai and that it can employ al
the men lseeded to fiji the positions 0
| the strikers.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-01
JAPS CHARGE
DEEP LAID PLOT
Take Serious View
of San Francisco
Outrages
WAR NOT DREAMED OF
But Fear is Expressed That
Danger Point May Soon
Be Reache d.

Toxic, July 1.-The Impression is
growing here that tb< anti-Japanese
feeling and demogArations in San
Francisco are the6ntcome of deeply
laid plot based 6pon racial hatred ana
that recent developments apparently
support thA impression.
The newspapers here which had
special correspondents of American
nationality In San Francisco, have
ceased 10 receive news from them,
No explanation was offered for the
discontinuance of the news dispatch
es but the impression here is that
pressure was brought to bear supon
the correspondents not to serve the
Japanese papers.
Fear is expressed that the danger
point will soon be reached. Although
war is not dreamed of, the mutual
feelings Of good will and friendship
will be seriously alienated if prompt
measures are not taken to allay the
general indignation here against the
latest discrimination in San Francis.
co which, according to Japanese con.
tention, is flagrant violation of ex-
listing treaty rights.