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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-21
Total Dead IL Now 100.

Toulon, March 16. A thorough
search of the interior Of the battleship
lena was completed yesterday after
noon. It Ia now believed that all the
bodies have been recovered. The rum.
Ter is given at 103.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-21
LIFE SOUGHT BY "sLAcK HAND"
Quarry Foreman Guarded by Detec

quarry Foreman Guarded by Detec.
tives-Quarry Is Threatened.
Waukesha, Wis, March IA score
OF detectives for more than a week
have been guarding the property Of
the Waukesha Stone and Quarry com.
pany, which has been threatened with
destruction by fire by an alleged
BLACK Hand" society The detectives
claim that the fire which destroyed
the plant on Sept. was the work Of
the Black Hand" organization, and
that the reason for destroying the com.
pany's property is to get rid Of A. e.
Houfracl, foreman of the works. Hou.
Track is said to have received a num-
Der of threatening letters from the or
ganization.
Houfrack, who is followed by a
guard of detectives, claims to be I'M
able to give any reason why he should
have been selected as the object of a
BLACK Hand vendetta
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-21
Reelected 131imes,

New Ulm. Mimi, March 14.--Prof.
e. T. Critchett has been reelected
superintendent Of the New Ulm public
school for the thirteenth time, this
time for two years.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-21
DUTCH BEAT REBELS.

XIII Of Capture $50 Men and Women
on Celebes.
The Hague, March 7.-An official
dispatch received here yesterday from
the island OF Celebes, Dutch East In
dies, announced that the Dutch troops
had captured an important rebel
stronghold, after stubborn fight.
The fleeing enemy left $50 dead on the
field, among whom were several rebel
chiefs. The troops captured 200 wom-
en- and 70 men. The losses OF the
Dutch are insignificant.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-21
Two Get Life Terms.

Burlington, Iiwa March 17.-Arnold
thinner (white) and Tom Grimes (coi'
ored}, who pleaded guilty to the muir
der Of John Gavin on Jan. %, were
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-21
FINDS NO GROUND FOR CHARGES
Legislators End Investigation at St


St. Peter, Mimi, March Alt has
been clearly established that the
stories of cruelty at the hospital for
the insane in this city have been gross
ly magnified and exaggerated. The spe-
cial committee from the state legisla-
ture, appointed to investigate these
charges completed dts probe yesterday
afternoon and the members of the
committee are convinced that there
was no necessity for the investiga-
ton.
Nothing discreditable to the hospi-
tai management was disclosed at the
hearing and the committee will make
no criticism Of the manner in which
the institution has been and is being
conducted. In fact, the investigation
has been decidedly to the advantage of
the hospital.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-21
BURTON CANNOT PAY FINE.
Former Senator Must Stay in Jail An
other Month

VI 'F'SI 0Sf'ok01 WuSt stay III jail MI"
other Month.
Abilene, Kan, March 16.-In a letter
received at his home here yesterday
from Former United States Senator
Joseph R. Burton. now serving a six
months sentence in the Ironton (Mo.)
Jail, Burton says he considers reliable
a report from Washington that he
must stay in Jail another month unless
he pays his fine of $4,000 He says
that as he has no money with which to
pay and does not want to borrow it,
he probably will remain in Ironton I'M
til April q. His six months sentence,
good behavior considered, would have
ended on March 81,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-21
From Other shores.

Ssss 4 - Ss'
It has been arranged for King Ed
ward 10 visit King Alfonso at San Sc
Sbastian, Spain, during the latter's an.
snual spring sojonrn.
A husband has been sold at Macy
Bajon, Hungary for $3.50. This is 4
reversal Of the custom OF selling wives,
which Is rather common in Hungary
~ q form Of divorce when man Gov
ets another woman.
Jean Casimir- Perrier, former presi,
dent Of France, Is dead IN Paris. His
public career was practically coeval
With the advancement OF the Third re-
public.
Emperor William has offered the
German military volunteer automobile
scorpssa prize for i long distance race,
on the lines Of the cavalry distance
race.
Dmperor Fiiliam has bestowed
upon Prof Ernest Haeckel, founder
/ 81 the Association for the Propagation
1 81 al excel
1 iency IA honor Of his golden jubilee
as doctor
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-21
JAPANESE COOLIES ARE BARRED.
President Keeps Promise to CaIiforni-
ans-Japs in School.

ans-Japs in School.
Washington, March 16. - President
Roosevelt yesterday issued an execu-
tive order directing that Japanese or
Korean laborers, skilled or unskllled'
who have received passports to go 10
Mexico, Canada or Hawaii, and 10
come therefrom, be refused permission
to enter the continental territory OF
the United States.
Nine Girls Admitted.
San Francisco, March 16.-Nine IN
tie Japanese girls who had applied for
admission to the Redding prlmar?
school were admitted yesterday after
an examination as to their knowledge
of the English language. The admls-
sion Of the Japanese children followed
the action of the board of education
yesterday resembling the resolution
which barred Japanese pupils from the
schools
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-21
Helpless Paralytic Murdered.

Helpless ParaIytic Murdered,
Ell Paso, Tex, March 17.-As he lay
in bed. helpless paralytic, Augustin
Castillo, one Of the wealthiest men in
the state Of Vera Cruz, Mex, was stab
bed to death at his home at Jalapan
by an unknown assassin.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-21
Casualty.

Fire at Scion, Iowa, destroyed a
meat market, saloon and ice house.
Fire destroyed the Chippewa county
(Mich.) poor house, twenty inmates
barely escaping.
Fire at Brunswick, Ga, destroyed
the cross-tie wharves of F. D. Aiken,
causing loss of $4,000.
BY the exploration Of an irrigation
plant at Matamoras, Mex, seven la
borers were scalded to death.
The Rock Island station ticket once
and residence of the agent at Center
vile, Iowa, were destroyed by fire.
An explosion in district school
near Upton, Iowa, caused a panic
among the pupils and resulted in the
injury of one boy.
The British steamer Columbia,
which caught fire while at sea-, burn
ed to the waters edge and sunk. Two
men lost their lives.
Harry Little, day foreman for the
Cleveland Cliff Iron company, was
killed at Gladstone. Mich, by the ex-
plosion Of gas tank.
A passenger train was ditched near
Jamestown. Ohio, and the engineer
and fireman were killed. The passen-
gers were badly shaken up.
Joseph Loder, a twelye-year-old boy
of Terre Haute, Ind, who was stricken
dumb eight months ago, coughed up a
broken tooth and at once began to
talk.
lillian Gardner, ten years old, OF
Waterloo. Iowa, was attacked by a
bulldog belonging to Jacob H. Griffith
and was badly lacerated about the
chest and arm.
q The building occupied by William
Green, the New York printer, from
whose presses Smart Set and Town
Topics are printed, was burned, caus-
Ing a loss of 100000.
Fire in the five-story building occu-
pied by the Partisan Steam laundry
and the Detroit Regalia company at
Detroit, Quilted the entire building.
The loss is something over 500, 900.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
Furriers' Signs.

Nine furriers out of ten use q
big, black stuffed bear for an ad-
vertisiHg sign. cit is because the
bears last longer than anything
else" explained one dealer. "Of al
the animals in New York I don't
know OF any that have harder time
than those that stand outside fur
riers' stores, winter and summer,
and try to drum up trade for their
employers. It doesn't make any diff
ference what kind of weather comes
along, whether it blows hot or blows
cold, those fellows have to stand at
their post and swelter or freeze as
the case may be- Naturally all
these changes are pretty hard on
their hide and none but bears can
stand the strain. Some furriers
have tried the fox, lynx and other
animals as a venture, but they have
come back to the bear as the most
satisfactory of the lot. They cost
more too. A good stuffed bear
comes as high as SIS, but if he is
treated right he will last for twenty
five years, so that brings him down
to a comparatively low price after
all."7New York Post.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
TIE WORD 4FEMALE.s
Why Should 1t Be cOntemptuoesiy.
Turned Ol.s Of Doors?

The fortune1 Of words, indeed,
are subject to as many vicissitudes
as the fortunes of individuals. But
there is perhaps no one term which
Just now deserves more commisera-
ton for the hard fate which has
befallen it than the substantive "fe-
male" used as a synonym for won
an" 1t is turned out of doors By
every corrector of the press. 1t IS
contemptuously spoken Of as a vul-
garism. Modern ignorance has
sometimes styled it a modern vui-
garism
Both as substantive and as an
adjective female goes back to the
fourteenth century, but though
then occasionally employed as a
synonym for woman" such usage
can hardly be called common. Still
it IS found. The Wycliffe transla-
ton Of the Bible, for illustration,
reads in the twenty-fourth chapter
of Matthew that two women shall
be grinding at a quern, the one to
be taken, the other left. But in the
polennic treatise Wycliffe wrote, ex-
pounding this same chapter, the two
Swomen" of the gospel appear as
two females" The word turns up
occasionally from that time during
the three centuries that follow.
1t is clear that the elder writer's,
born and brought up amid the lin
g1istic traditions of the earlier half
of the nineteenth century, were
not in the slightest degree under the
influences now prevalent and that
the disrepute into which the word
has fallen is mainly the work of
the last thirty years. 1t is hard
to tell under what circumstances
the feeling of dislike to it arose
or what were the main determining
agencies that brought about the
state of feeling we recognize as ex-
listing today. If the remark will not
seem invidious, I am inclined to at
tribute the disfavor in which it is
now held to the i'll will entertained
and expressed toward it by the mem
bers of the sex it denotes. 1t may
be said that they ought to have
determining voice in choosing the
appellations by which they are des-
;gnated.-Thomas r. Lounsbury in
Harper's for August.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
Lac Only openina.

The story is told of two Trenton
men who hired horse and trap
for little outing. Upon reaching
their destination the horse was IN
harnessed and permitted peacefully
to Craze while the men fshed for
an hcur or two.
When they were ready to go home
q difficulty at once presented itself,
inasmuch as neither of the Tren-
tonians knew how to reharness the
horse. Every effort in this direction
met with dire failure, and the worst
problem was properly to adjust the
bit. The horse himself seemed to
resent the idea of going into har-
ness again.
Finally one of the friends. in
great distress, sat down in the road.
''There's only one thing We can do,
Bill" said he.
sWhaPs that?" asked Bill.
sWait for the foolish beast to
yawn l"-Harper's Weekly.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
No New Thing.

The tendency of some women to
ape men in their dress, far from
being modern, is as old as the
Spectator at least, if not older, and
Addison in an essay comments upon
it with gentle humor.
A lady dressed according to the
fashion of the advanced woman Of
the time, in a mans hat, periwig
and riding coat met a tenant Of
Sir Roger de Coverley. She asked
whether a house near at hand were
not Coverley Hall.
The man, seeing only the male
part of his querist, replied, eyes,
sir"
But upon the further question,
whether Sir Roger was married
man, CHANGING to drop his eye to
the lady's skirt, the embarrassed
man changed his note to mo, mad
am."7London Spectator.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
He obieeted.

a worthy man who was very sem
sitiye and retiring, having lost his
wife, privately requested that he
might be remembered in the minis
ter's morning prayer from the pull
pit, but asked that his name might
not be mentioned. On Sunday
morning the good minister prayed
most eloquently for sour aged
brother upon whom the heavy hand
Of sore affection has so lately fall
en-"
At this point an elderly man,
whom the minister had married to
a very young wife during the week,
rose with bounce and stamped
down the aisle, muttering loud
enough to be heard all over the
chapel, at may be an affection, but
Pm blest if l want to be prayed
for in that fashion Parsons
Weekly.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion Of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an indarned con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian Tube. When this tube is infam-
ed you have a rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when ii is entirely clos
ed, Deafness is the result, and unless the
inflammation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which is nothing-but an inhamed condi-
ton of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness Caused by catarrhl
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrb
Cure. Send for circulars free.
F. J.CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Take Halls FanlilyPjlls for constipation
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
Tonoue Twisters.

Some elocutionist has made col
lection Of more than 200 ''tongue
twisters:"
"A growing CLEAN glowing green. I"
"The bleak breeze blighted the
bright broom blossoms"
TSFlesh of freshly dried flying
fish"
"Six thick thistle sticks"
1.-TWO toads tried to trot to Ted
bury"
@Give Grimes Jim's great gilt gig
whip"
"strict, strong Stephen Stringer
SHARED Sticky six sickly silky
snakes"
"She stood at the door of Mrs.
Smiths fish sauce shop welcoming
him in.
The first three ara the gems of
the collection. It is said to be i'm
possible for any one to repeat them
rapidly.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05

work. The intercoastal canal
project is not mentioned. however,
and the canal from Brazos Santiago
to the Rio Grande, which was
recommended by Capt. Jadwin,
also appears to have been lost in
the shuttle. This last project is
one whose importance cannot be
overestimated by our people, and
it is to be regretted that steps have
not been taken here TO aid Con-
gresham Garner in securing the
appropriation for it. Had rep
resentative of sufficient standing
to have some influence been sent
to Washington for the purpose of
working for this project, it would
probably have been money spent
to good effect. 1t will doubtless
be uphill business to secure an
appropriation for the construction
of such a canal. as there will prob
ably be powerful interests opposed
to it, but the benefits which would
result to this entire valley as far
up as Hidalgo, or even farther,
with such means of cheap trans
portation opened up to them, would
be so great as to justify every land
owner in this region in using every
effort to secure its construction.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
rhe EIiaht Of Time.

'I knew Of case once where two
darkies snapped mules" said a
judge. "One Of them was an old
hand at the business, and in max
ing the trade he represented his
mule to be seven years old and told
of many good traits the animal had
not. This was in February. About
two months later the other darby
began to realize he had been victim
lied in the bargain and that the
beast was fully twelve years old. So
he decided to go back and tell the
swindler he had lied to him about
the animal. However, owing to it
being the busy season of farming,
he was not able to go until about
the middle of June. He finally did
go and told his man what he thought
Of his rascally misrepresentation
about the mule.
''You say, said the other fellow,
"dat when you got de mule IL Feb
ruary he was seven years old and
now it's June and he's twelve years
cld?"
ayes, I doP' was the angry re-
Spouse.
'eWell, sab, time sure do fly
American Spectator.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
Habit.

"Habit is a tenacious thing, isn't
it?" Intercepted the man in the
hotel lobby the other evening. Now
one Of my habits (you see l am a
very poor writer, the proverbial
chicken marks not beginning to
describe my hieroglyphics) is to
write at the close of my letters,
please excuse poor writing Kind
of a foolish expression, isn't it?
Well, anyway, it just caused me
some annoyance. A minute ago I
dictated a letter to the stenographer
over there" and as he spoke he
pointed to the immaculate young
woman, who was evidently still try
ing to hide her amusement about
something, "and after 1 had paid
her it suddenly occurred to me that
the letter hadn't been finished, and
1 turned and told her to put at
the close, Please excuse bad writ
ing Habit is very strange thing,
now, isn't it columbus Dispatch.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
SENATOR FOB ONE MIGHT.
Colonel Peck Took the Job to Save tho
Old Goxernorss Lie.

"Coburn of Kansas wasn't ths
only citizen Of fhe Surfower State
who declined the senatorial toga, :"
said a graybeard in Kansas politics.
''There was Peck.
"A vacancy was created in the
senate by the death of Preston B.
Plumb, colleague Of iridescent In
gals. The legislature was not in
session and it was up to old Coz
ernor Humphrey to make an ap-
pointment.
.sThe activity of the politicians
on this occasion made Iowa and
Indiarm look as if they were hitched
to a graye@bnG It was almost i'm
possible for stranger to get
bed or a bite to eat in Topeka I'M
less he was candidate for Plumb's
shoes.
'Poor old Humphrey didn't get
wink of sleep for week. Finally,
after all the buttons had been
pulled off the governors coat, he
jumped in a carriage late at night
and told the driver to land him
at the home of George R. Peck, who
at the time was general counsel of
the Atehison, Topeka and Santa Fe
system. Peck was in bed, but the
governor pounded on the door until
the attorney stuck his head out of
the window in a snowstorm and
wanted to know who was there.
'"The governor quickly told. With
out waiting to put on his party
clothes Peck hurried downstairs to
receive his visitor.
''The governor was a plain man,
honest and bluff. The intercourse
was not short handed, but l have
it from mighty good authority that
it was as follows:
'0The Governor = George, for
heavens sake, take this senatorship
so can get some sleep. There are
forty men at the Copeland who are
after it and I want somebody to
take it who hasn't asked for it,
Colonel Peck-'But, governor, l
don't want the job
"The Governor-G know you
don't, George, and that's why I
want you to take it. You're prob
ably The only man in Kansas who
isn't after it,
Colonel Peck-I can't take it,
governor. I'm a busy man, and the
interests of the company I repre-
sent
"Governor-sHang the company.
Take it for tonight anyhow. VIII
you do that?'
Colonel Peck-.If it will help
you, governor, I viii think it over
until morning, so you can get some
sleep and save your ife.'
''The governor put his arm
around Peck's neck and wept for
Joy. He drove back to the Cope
land House, where the candidates
were still lined up, and told them
the thing was settled, that Peck
had the job.
"Quicker than bunch of cats
the candidates rushed away, and the
governor went to- bed for the first
time in a week. As you may know,
Peck the next day declined the
honor, but the governor in the
meantime had selected Congress
man Perkins from his own town. y
Kansas City Journal.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
Horse Stories.

Here are some horse stories from
the Kinsley (Kan.) Graphic: Some
persons were talking about the slow
ness of horses. ''There's Kelly's old
gray. You couldn't whip her into a
trot," said one. "Johnson's black
mare will beat that. She refuses to
help herself to the barley at night,
for most times she isn't through
eating her dinner" said another.
"Old Waters spindleshank takes the
prize" put in third. 'She IS dou-
Bile jointed in the knees. She walks
both ways at once" 81 stood in the
road" drawled Shepherd, coming in
late for his dinner, ''for twenty min
utes talking to Meyers, and all that
time his bay mare never stopped"
Nothing pleases homeIy woman
so much as to have man compli-
ment her figure.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05

LATE dispatches from Washing
ton indicate that the recommends
81 the Board of Engineers OF
Waterway Improvement will ma
terially reduce the amount asked
for Texas products. Congressman
Garner has undoubtedly done his
lest for the improvements desired
gor this end of the Texas coast,
With the result that an appropria-
zion will probably be made for the
ransas Pass and Turtle Cove
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-05
SATURDAY, JANUARY ), 1907
cULBERSON. ON BROWNS
VILE RAID.

The cause of Brownsville is be-
ing defended nobly in the senate
by the senior senator from Texas
who, in a two hours, speech on
the resolution introduced by Sena-
tor Foraker demanding an inves-
tigation of the discharge of the
negro soldiers by the President,
set forth clearly tbs proof of the
soldiers guilt and indicated the
good name of the citizens of
Brownsville, which Senator For
aker had not hesitated to attack.
Not only did Senator Culberson
speak for Brownsville, but he also
defended Captain Mcdonald of the
Texas Rangers, whom thc 0hioan
had made the object of ridicule,
and Major Blocksom, whose simple
and manly statement of the true
results of his investigation had
made him likewise the target for
unjust insinuations by the same
politicians tongue-not only this,
but he went further. With fore
sight gained from familiarity with
conditions in the South, and from
a comprehension of the significance
of the trend of events both North
and South in relation to the race
question, he took advantage of
this opportunity to convey to the
nation some idea of the grave fore
bodings of race trouble yet to
come which are felt by TIE more
akoughtful minds of this section.
In setting forth the motive or cause
leading to the outrage upon
Brownsville, he read from resolu-
lions recently adopted by negro
citizens of Boston which serve to
show tile spirit not only at bottom
of the raid on Brownsville, but
(which actuates large proportion
of the race in the Northern states.
These resolutions frankly admitted
that the negro soldiers SHOT up
the town" of Brownsville, and
added that the soldiers were de-
ternlined to do for themselves what
the uniform of their country would
not do-protect them from in
suits and punish at the same time
the authors of their misery.
Here is the handspring of the
whole trouble. The people of
Brownsville did not insult these
negroes; they merely refused to
grant them social equality. This
then is considered by the represent
.atives Of the race in Boston as suf-
6cient provocation to justify the
murder of whites by negroes. 1t
was this sinister feature of the
causes underlying the murderous
attack upon Brownsville which
caused Senator Culbersou 10 bring
up the race problem in congress
and TO endeavor to point out the
.cloudthat menaces the relations
of the white and black races of the
United States.