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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
SOUTH DAKOTA RICHER.
Counties Renort Increase in Assessed
Valuation.

Counties Renort Increase in Assessed
Valuation.
With the returns SO far made by
the counties to the state auditor there
will be decided increase in the gen
eral state valuation this year, ard it is
expected that under the new law
there will also be all increase worthy
Of note in the assessment of corpo-
rate property. Eighteen counties have
made returns, which show an increase
Of s11,O00,00O over the returns from
the same counties last year. With the
same ratio of increase on the rest of
the counties the increase in general
valuation will be approximately 1884,
100000 over the, returns of last year,
and the increase in corporate prop
erty will bring it to at least 100000
900 if the estimates are sustained.
With such an increase in valuation
it is not likely that the full additional
2 mill levy authorized by the legisla-
.ture viii he required TO raise the
necessary revenues of the state for
the next year.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
ORDER ARREST OF LEADERS
FEARED THAT PRESENT QUIET
ON RANGE is ONLY CALM BE-
FORE STORM.

Hibbing, Mimi, July 20. - Fearing
that the present quiet is only the calm
before the storm, warrant was yes,
terday sworn out for the arrest Of Teo
hlo Petriella, the little Italian who is
engineering the present gigantic strike
OF the iron ore miners on the ranges
north of here. The citizens believe ii
he were thrown into Jail on some
minor charge it would have the effect
OF breaking up the strike. Petriella
left here yesterday morning for Eve.
leth, and the officers have not succeed
ed in locating him.
Pinkertons on the Way.
There is a good deal of suppressed
excitement over the report that 100
Plnkerton detectives were on their
Way to protect the big Steel corpora.
ton mines at Eveleth when an effort
is made to open them Monday. The
miners look upon the Pinkertors as
their deadliest enemies. DESPITE the
protection offered here by deputies
armed with rifles and revolvers no
men are returning to work, indicating
that the ranks Of the strikers are still
solid. Although many of the idle men
are seen upon the streets they do not
gather in the saloons, and not the
least remarkable thing in connection
with the general suspension of work
is the good order which the leaders
have SO far preserved.
DEVELOPMENTS Exnected
That interesting developments are
expected shortly is shown by the fact
that Sheriff Bates Of St. Louis county
arrived here on the afternoon train
and at once held hasty consultation
with Mayor Weirick The sheriff
claims he can land $50 deputies from
Duluth here in four hours time.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
WIFE MAY KEEP LAND.
Hitchcock Says Husbands Legal Resi-.
dence Elsewhere Doesn't Count

dence Elsewhere Doesn't Count.
By one Of the most important de-
cisicns this year the secretary of the
interior has just declared that a wife
who has taken up homestead land
prior to her marriage may maintain
her title to the land, even though her
husband makes his legal residence
elsewhere. The decision was in the
caseH Of Mrs. Augusta Raymond of
WhiteWood, who has been fighting two
years to hold her land. David Per-
kins of the same place contested her
right to the land on the ground that
Der legal residence was with her hus-
band, who is employed in another sec
ton of the country The land Office
at Rapid City decided against the
woman, as did the commissioner of
the land Office at Washington, but her
attorney appealed the case to Secre-
tary Hitchcock personally, and has
just been notified of the decision that
will make an important precedent for
future cases.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
Washinqton,s Small subway.

Washington will soon have one Of
the smallest subways n the world, 2
said 2. G. Wilson of the Capital city.
This underground railroad will be less
than a third of mile long and will
connect the capitol building with the
house of representatives office build
ing. It will contain narrow gage
electric line and also two wide side
walks. The reason this tunnel is be-
ing built is the difficulty encountered
by members of the house going be-
tween the two points. It is necessary
to cross wide street in the Capitol
park. and this is always filed with
fast moving automobiles as well as
carriages and other vehicles. 1t
sometimes takes the lawmakers Is
minutes to get from their Office to the
capitol The new iiiifi-ta,ai vii: VIII! ii
operation by December II
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
ACCIDENTAL SHOT FIRED.

President HaIsey Of Oshkosh Normal
School Is the Victim.
Oshkosh, Wis, July 2S.-President
Richard H. Halsey Of the Oshkosh
normal school vas accidentally shot
and killed at Geogebic Lake, Wis, yes
terday. President Halsey became
president of the Oshkosh normal
school ii 1899, following the death Of
President c. S. Albee Previous to be.
coming president OF the norma. school
Mr.. Halsey had been superintendent of
public instruction in Oshkosh and also
in the East.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
OBSERVE "sPoRTs DAY.
Three Thousand People Attend cele
bration at lroquois.

Three Thousand People Attend ceIe.
bration at Iroquois.
"Sport day" at Iroquois was cele-
brated by 5000 people, who gathered
in that thriving little city to enjoy the
occasion. Special trains were run and
several hundred people were' in at
tendance from this city The chief
features of the day were two baseball
games, one in the forenoon between
Madison and Willow Lakes teams, won
by the Madison team; the other in
the afternoon, washington Springs de-
feating Artesians. Miss Amanda
Clement of Yankton, the only woman
baseball umpire in the Northwest, UNI
pired both games. A long list of other
sports was enjoyed. and the day closed
with a bowery dance in the evening.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
TO HAVE TROLLEY LINE.

Work is progressing at Armour or.
the erection Of the power house for
the electric lighting plant and the
propelling Of the rolling stock on the
recently incorporated Wagner-Armour
and Lake Shore Electric Rapid Tran
sit company It is thought that the
lighting plant will be in operation by
the last OF September. The electric
railway project is receiving the close
attention Of Its promoters who are
confident that the railway is ago.''
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
At a Diplomatic Luncheon.

Really, I felt horribly overdressed
and apologetic," the attractive young
wife of a far-away senator laughed
the other day, in describing Babel
luncheon at Washington in honor Of
Mrs. Creel, at which she herself had
been present. my costume was so
Infinitely more costly than that of the
guest Of honor" The pretty senatress
wore a $500 lace robe. The richest
woman in the world appeared in a
simple little tan-colored yelling that
would have been no particular bar
gain at $35 all told. Nor were the
senora's fabulous jewels the least in
evidence. A miscellaneous assert.
ment of diplomatic danes surrounded
the multi-millionaire Mexican. each
struggling in her own pretty tongue
to be understood by her neighbor.
Those unequal to French or Spanish
sat at meat mum chance-extra dry.
There was the latest diplomatic bride.
Nine. Corea, wife of the liquid-eyed
little minister from Nicaragua of
romantic past India Corea, however.
In spite of her double barreled geo.
graphical name, is domestic and not
IN imported beauty, a Washington de-
butante. There We're the ladies OF
seyeraf South American countries and
several European specimens. The
courageous hostess who spoke naught
but her native Pennsy1vaniaese re.
duced her remarks to her foreign
guests to the most elemental prin.
ciples, enunciating each word with
kindergarten simplicity, touching only
on the obvious.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01

Rev. Il. p. Viets, who recently ten.
dered his resignation Of the pastorate
OF the Baptist church at South Shore
in order, to accept tth e pa storate Of the
Baptist tabernacle in Minneapolis, is.
preparing to depart for Minneapolis
in time to assume his new duties there
about Sept. !. His resignation OF the
passionate at South Shore will take Ell
feet about the middle of August. #
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
KILLED BY TORNADO.

Spike Is Driven Into Mans Temple
During Wind Storm.
Andrew, Iowa, July 28.-In lorna.
do near Lamotte, Iowa, Godfrey
Schenck OF this place was killed. He
was separating cream when the milk
house was demolished and a piece Of
scantling containing a large spike
struck him, driving the spike into his
temple. A number of barns and wind
mills were destroyed.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
YsgEined.

Little Falls, Mimi, July ~. =. Five
boys, named Frank Collins, George
Robbins, John Novotney and Emory
and Lewis Harris, were fined 50 each
in Judge Gerritz's court yesterday for
willful destruction Of property belong
ing to P. H. Berg. The alternative
was given in default of payment of fine
OF two weeks in the Red Wing re-
formatory. The boys have not yet paid
their fines.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
EDITOR MITCHELL is DEAD.
Veteran Journalist and the Founder of
Duluth News Tribune Is no More.


Duluth, Mimi, July 20. - Robert G.
MITCHELL founder of the Duluth News.
Tribune, last of the old editors who
had impressed their personality upon
events in Minnesota, and one of the
states history makers, died yesterday
at his home here. He has been lead
ing editor and citizen here since 1869,
and power up to the time of his
death. Engaged until midnight on
editorial copy for his paper, the Du-
luth Tribune, he slept well, arose at
8 yesterday morning, complained of
pain at breakfast and died of acute in
digestion at 80 p. m. Rugged and
massive, phyically, large of brain and
body, he was a wonderful old man.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
JUMPS; CATCHES TOTS.
Farmers Wife Helps Save Children
From Fire.

Appleton, Wis, July 2S.-Awaken-
ing to find the house in flames and
Tesch, wife Of a farmer living three
miles from here, leaped from the sec
ond-story window and saved her life.
Then, with a pillow and quilt which
her husband threw to her, she caught
their three children as Tesch lowered
them from the window. Tesch jump
ed from the window just before the
roof of the house fell in. The entire
family escaped with only their night
clothing.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
Fatal Gasoline

Grand Forks, N. D.. July 28.-Mrs.
Mary Hamerschmidt was burned fatal
ly while attempting to start quick
fire with gasoline. Her body was ter
ribly burned.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01

PROTECT ALL WHO Will WORK
STATE WILL TOLERATE NO IN.
TERFERENcE ON THE PART
OF STRIKERS.

Duluth, July 27.-Unless conditions
become more aggravated than they
are at present, state troops will not be
called to the Mesaba range. This was
decided by Gov. j. A. Johnson yester-
day, after an inspection Of conditions
at Hibbing, Virginia and Fyeleth. The
three principal towns in the strike dis
trict. AT Hibbing the governor met
Teofilio Pretol]ia, manager of the
strike for the Western Federation of
Miners, as we'll as number Of city
officials, strike committees. etc.
Lives Are Threatened.
Chief Of Police Wiring informed the
governor that he could produce two
witnesses who would swear that the
lives Of certain miners would be en-
dangeied if they did not cease in their
opposition to the strike movement.
The governor replied: why are not
the men responsible for this threat
arrested and dealt with according to
law"
Because" said Mayor Weirick, who
was present, mo man is willing to go
Ou lie SIduu dlu ISSIlly lO1 lCdA VI
what would happen to him."
Will Protect Workers.
Being assured that there is no imme-
date cause for apprehension at Hib-
bling, the governor boarded his special
and proceeded to Eveleth, where he
was net by crowd of 100 strikers
and escorted to the city hall. The
governor was called upon for speech
and responded. saying he did not come
for that purpose, but said that the
state Of Minnesota could protect every
man who wished to go to work: that
the state would tolerate no interior
ence on the part of the strikers, and
should there be any the state troops
would be called out instanter. He did
not believe any such contingency
would arise and counseled all to be
cool and they would come out all
right.
NJ Seek to End Strike.
Whether or not the strike will be
settled soon depends in large meas
ure upon the action of the conference
that is taking place in the Steel corpo.
ration building between representa-
tives of the ore handlers union,
which has organized since the strike
believed by those in close touch with
the situation that if the corporation
recognizes the new union and the men
go back to work the strike will be Of
short duration.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
New Monument for capitaI,

Belgium's eminent sculptor, LET
3Lambeaux, who is regarded by many
as Robins only rival, is busy on the
monument to be erected in Washing
ton to the memory of the late George
M Pullman, the former heed OF the
Pullman Car company.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
Train Hits Homestead.r

Bemidji, Mimi, July 2S.-John Mar.
tin, homesteader who has been work.
ing on the extension of the Minnesota
& International railway, north from
Big Falls to International Falls, was
hit by a construction train last night
and quite seriously injured.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
lightning Burns Elevator.

Lakota, N. D., July 27.-During the
worst electric storm of the season at
Brockett last night the National Ele-
vator was struck and burned, with its
contents. Twenty tons of soft and
fifty tons of hard coal burned also.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
Veteran Tar browns il River.

oconomowoc, Wis, July 81. Ed
ward Borgeson, who for years had sail
ed the Atlantic ocean, but recently had
De ss engaged in boat Building here,
was drowned while swimming in the
river last night.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
Woman Ends Life.

westboro, Wis, July %. Mrs. Han.
nah johnson committed suicide by
throwing herself in front Of a passen.
ger train here yesterday morning. She
has lately been in an asylum.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
Faints When FISHING: browns

Anaconda, Mont, July ~. While
hsh f.lig at a pool on Foster creek, fif.
teen miles of here. Louis Johnson was
suddenly taken with 1ainting nj, fell
from his boat and was drowned. John
son was forty-two years old.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
Seek'to End Strike.
REDUCED LUMBER RATES.
Montana Commissioners Slash Off
rs Per Cent on Northern Pacific.

Helena, Mont, July 81. - The ctate
board of railroad commissioners yes
terday reduced the Northern Pacific's
lumber rates Is per cent. The repre-
sentatives of the railroad agreed to
the reduction after conference with
tie commissioners. The commission
also fixed Helena, Butte, Anaconda,
Livingston, Billings and NTibaux as
terminals on which intermediate rates
will be based.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01
IRON ORE DISCOVERY.
Strike in stearns County Causes Much
Excitement,

Maine Prairie, MINI, July 27.-The
discovery of what is believed to be
valuable iron deposits on a farm near
here has caused much excitement
among land owners in the neighbor-
hood. Charles Wells of st. Paul has
secured an option on seventy-three
acres@off land on which the ore vas
discovered and yesterday started a
drill to work to develop the extent Of
the ore body.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-01

The eighth grade commencement
exercises for Douglas count will be.
held in Armour Aug. to 9. "a series
of lectures will be a feature.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-06
STANDARD OIL

TAIR MINDED and conservative
readers who are apt to accuse the
n press generally Of joining in an
unjust and unwarranted condem-
nation of Standard Oil are invited to
read the following summing up of
charges against the company by United
States Commissioner of Corporations
Herbert Knox Smith, just submitted to
President Roosevelt. He says:
The following facts are proven: The
Standard has not reduced margins
during the period in which it has been
responsible for the prices of oil. Dur
ing the last eight years covered by this
report Gs98 to 1900 it has raised both
prices and margins.
It's domination has not been acquired
or maintained by it's superior efficiency,
but rather by unfair competition and
by methods economically and morally
unjustifisble. The Standard has su-
perior efficiency in running its own
business; 1t has an equal efficiency in
destroying the business of it's competi-
tors. 1t keeps for itself the profits OF
the first and adds to these the monopoly
profits secured by the second It's
profits are far above the highest pos
sible standard Of a reasonable com
mercial return, and have been steadily
increasing. Finally, the history Of this
great industry is a history of the per-
sIstent use of the worst Industrial
methods. the exaction of exorbitant
prices from the consumer and the secur-
ing Of excessive profits for the small
group of men who over a long series
Of years have thus dominated the BUSH
ness.
The force of this all-embracing ar
raignment lies In the fact that if 1t is
not true 1t is libelous. and the govern
ment is open to heavy damages therefor.
No man will believe such charges are
made by high officials unless careful
and complete examinations have been
made.
This official proof gives the lie direct
to all the corporation has offered in
defense of It's commercial piracy fol-
twenty years, and the chief wonder and
general regret is that those who now
bring It to bar and punishment did not
do SO long ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-06
UNWRITTEN LAW

HHE misapplication of the "unwrit-
ten law in the case of Judge
Il Loving Of Virginia recently, who
killed a young man for an assumed
wrong to the judges daughter and was
acquitted, though it was proved the girl
was hysterical when she told her story
and that the man who was killed did
her no wrong, seems to have brought
that unknown legal quantity into the
limelight unnecessarily, and recent
hasty utterances by a local official re-
garding his prospective action in the
Corwell case leads the Oakland Herald
into an excellent homily on giving the
written law a chance. Speaking of
those who ruin homes and regulations
1t says: "There is no disposition to save
or shield this class of Monsters 1t is
only required that the proof of their
guilt shall be conclusive. After that
the community does not care what hap
pens to them. Let us exhaust all the
resources of the law before we invoke
the 'unwritten law and anarchy"
This is safe and sane preachment
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-06
IRRIGATION CONGRESS

N EGINNING September 2 next. Sac
IN ramento is to have the fifteenth
national irrigation congress, and
her people are working thereat on the
Los Angeles plan of doing things well.
The entire nation is deeply interested in
the work of this congress, and for ex-
cellent reasons. Vast stretches Of burn
ing sand and alkali lands, worthless and
uninhabitable, have been made to
produce crops by irrigation that are
almost beyond belief This work is not
confined to any one section. but is gen.
eral all over the country west of the
continental divide. Congressional aid
in the form of 100000 900 for the build
ing of dams and canals, the first cost to
be returned to the treasury in rents
from occupants of the reclaimed land,
results so far prove the wisdom of
the act.
A feature of unusual interest in the
two weeks of education in this great
work will be an interstate exposition of
irrigated land products and forest pro-
0dSlo WHICH VIII III llIB LIlDul6 IIOIIl oil
sections benefited by the law, and serve
to prove the wisdom of the men who
fought long and valiantly for national
aid. Men prominent in this good work
have given valuable prizes for the best
exhibits, and it is safe to say that the
men who win them will have to make
an extraordinary showing. After con-
slant contact with ordinary farm land
produce one must see the astonishing
products of irrigated land to realize
how prolific the soil is.
The remarkable interest displayed in
this new national blessing and the
sound financial basis on which it rests
give warrant that thousands Of families
win find homes and the certainty OF a
competency on land now given over to
jackrabbits and chaparral. The crown
ing merit Of the irrigation system under
governmental auspices lies in the fact
that it cannot come under corporate
control.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-06
TURKISH TROOPS CROSS INTO
PERSIA; SLAY CHRISTIANS
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
TEHERAN, Persia, Aug 5.-The IN
cursions of the Turkish troops across the
northwest frontier of Persia, which for
some time had been in allegiance, have
again broken out. A serious raid has
been made near Urumiah, six thousand
Turkish troops with artillery having
crossed the frontier and destroyed the
village of Mavanch.
Seventy-eight persons, of whom sixty
were women and children, mostly Chris
tians, were killed. Subsequently the
Turks drove a small force of Persian
troops from nearby camp, and instituted
themselves in 1t.
1t is unoffcially reported that large
body of Persian cavalry subsequently
Joined the Turkish invaders and the com
bired force is said to be threatening the
town of Urumiah, which has population
estimated between 10000 and $4,000 persons,
including many Christians, Is noted
center Of missionary activity and is the
seat of the Fiske seminary for girls and
Urumlah college.
1t Is considered probable that Russia
and Great Britain will be appealed to
and bring pressure to bear upon Turkey
with the view Of stopping the raid
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-06

The assertion that Standard oil will
advance prices % per cent on all grades
of petroleum products so that the fine
assessed by Judge Lands may be paid
without a reduction Of dividends shows
who, in the last analysis, will really pay
the fine. Do these buccaneers of Wall
street think the people are powerless in
affairs of this sort? 1t is true there
are no legal reasons why they should
not advance the price of any commodity,
but there are moral reasons against this
robbery, and it is such acts as these
which increase the widespread discon-
tent among the people. A day of reck-
oning is coming and, once aroused,
Americans will make it a clean sweep.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-06
$40 SHARES SOLD FOR
SIPS IS ACCUSATION
Alleged Deal in Wireless Telegraph
Stock Gets C. ErbettI In Jail.
Jury Locked Up for the
Night

Carlo Erbetti is on trial on the charge
of obtaining money under false pretenses,
being accused by Joseph Dogio of having
sold him two shares of American Marconi
Wireless Telegraph company's stock at
s126 a share when the market price was
said to be much lower. At midnight last
night the jury was locked up for the
night.
During the trial the prosecution put ].
]. Doran, a local stock broker, on the
stand, and he testified to having sold the
stock during July. 1906, when Doglio
claims the alleged transaction was con-
summated, for $40 a share.
Attorney Schenck. for the defense,
claimed it was the buyers own risk If he
bought stock without first ascertaining
the market value Of It, An attempt was
made to introduce into the evidence let
ters from several reputable brokerage
houses to prove the current values Of the
stock, but this was overruled by Judge
Smith.
The defense called witnesses TO prove
that Erbetti was in Santa Barbara when
1t is claimed he sold the shares The
state called several witnesses In rebuttal,
who sworc they had seen the defendant
in Los Angeles after the alleged deal was
closed.