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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Rev. j. E. Booth, pastor of the
Evangelical church, departed for
Aberdeen Monday to attend confer
ence. It's understood that members
of the church here have made a
strong request to have their popular
pastor remain another year, instead
of transferring him to De Smet, as
intended.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

AS if to cheer the depressed minds
of Miller "wets' before the saloons
close, the government announces that
the duty on champagne water from
Germany will be reduced by our new
commercial agreement.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

George Jeffrey has box of tested
seed corn on exhibition at his nipple
ment store, as a practical illustra-
ton of the value of the seed corn he
is selling.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

A sad lesson to parents comes from
West Branch, Mich, May 4th, where
Mr. and Mrs Martin Campbell locked
up their house with four small child
rem in it. and when they returned
home the house and children were
bI,rpad
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Miss Janynthia Dawson entertain
ed about twenty of her little friends
last week to May Pole party. The
chief amusement was the winding of
the May Pole. At six o'clock a
dainty two-course lunch was served
by the little hostess mother and
sisters.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

p. J. Dunn will go to Pierre to
morrow to become time keeper or
G. & n. w. construction work be
tween Blunt and Pierre.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

The Misses Margaret and Alice
Rourke, of Monticello, Iowa, arrived
yesterday to visit their brothers and
sisters in Alpha twp.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Governor Crawford has appointed
Mayor Thomson as one of a dozen
delegates to the National Civic Fed
GRAFTON convention at Chicago, May
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

The friends of Miss Carrie Furman
gave her wedding shower Wednes-
day night, last week, at the home of
Mrs W. II. Sunderland.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Hobart Mead, young son of Depu.
ty Treasurer R. S. Mead, is carrying
an arm IN a sling, as the result of 4;
fall from wagon.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Smooth surface rubber roofing on.
ly LAO per square at Laird Norton
Yards. 22tf
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Walter Hubbard, of Yale, was a
Miller visitor Monday. He is now
engaged in the banking business.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Henry Earl returned Monday from
visit to Davenport, Iowa, and is
again in his old place at the Wander
bilt hotel
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

George Mccarthy returned yester-
day from Rochester, Mimi, where
he had been for treatment in the
hospital.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

DR.. McWhorter has erected wash
house building and barn on hi:
dwelling lots, Main and 9Th SITS.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

The concert and May pole dance
advertised for May LIST was postpon-
ed until Thursday, May 10th.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Mrs G. w. Wright, of Huron, is
visiting at the home of her mother,
Mrs James Croll.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

VIM. Stevens is about again after
a siege of the measles.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Smooth surface rubber roofing only
$1.40 per square at Laird Norton
Yards. 22tf
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Jay Pussy come home from Huron
college Friday to spend Sunday.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
PERSONALS AND
~LOCHL BRIEFS

The county commissioners were in
session Monday and Tuesday.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

Attorney J. H. Cole made trip
to Bancroft last week on legal bust
npSS
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
THE MILLER PRESS
THURSDAY MAY 8, 1907
CLUBBING RATES

The Press and Inter Ocean Tyr ........ 81. 50
The Press and Sioux City Journal Tyr. .... 81 50
The Press and Dakota Farmer yr........ 81 60
The Press and New Idea Magazine yr - 81 so
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09

hospital.
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POTATO SUPPLY CORNERED
Disastrous Freeze in the South
Causes a Dearth.
Spectators Buy Up Supplies and
Jump Prices Fifty Per Cent. Fol-
lowing the Freeze.

New York Clty.-The wholesale
price of potatoes in this city has adj
vanced fifty per cent, and as prac-
tically all of the large operators have
bought all they could get hold of.
there is little prospect that the con-
Stunning public will have a chance to
buy supplies at the prices which have
prevailed hitherto this season. Maine
potatoes, which were quotable at
$3.50 per bag, are now held firmly at
s2.25, and State stock has advanced
in about the same proportion.
The furry in the market was
caused by the freeze in the South,
particularly in the large producing
districts around Charleston and Sa-
vannah, where the supplies of new
potatoes for this market are largely
obtained during the spring months.
Prior to the freeze 1t had already
been known that the potato crop OF
Florida had been curtailed about fifty
per cent. by the protracted drought
in that State, and while some Of this
stock is already in the market, 1t 10
held at $3.50 to 81 per barrel, a price
too high to bring them in competition
with old potatoes, even with prices OF
the latter much further advanced.
European potatoes, which are Or
dinarily called upon to relieve a
shortage here in the spring months,
cannot be delivered here for less than
$3.50 per sack, so that there is room
for the large operators to force prices
still higher without meeting compe-
tition.
No sooner had the spectators con-
frmed the freeze damage early in
the week than they sent Geographic
orders throughout all the large pro-
ducing districts in New York State
and Maine and bought all the sup
plies Of old potatoes they could quiet
ly obtain. In the meantime prices in
New York City were not advanced,
because this of course would have
caused the growers in the country to
put their prices up. The big buyers
had obtained all the supplies they
wanted and then suddenly advanced
prices. H.
In addition to the effect of the
freeze upon the potato market 1t has
caused an advance of about 100 per
cent. in the price Of strawberries ow-
ing to the fact that the Southern
crop was curtailed by the freeze. 1t
will also mean that watermelons and
cantaloupes from that section, which
usually reach this market about June
/, will not be here until about July /,
80 I-I xL--~ I'LL h& rrnrr oh Nrf
supply Of Southern vegetables of all
descriptions here this spring.
The freeze has been the most disas-
trous to the trucking interests
through the Southeast that has ever
been experienced since this great in
dustry developed.
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CLERK ROBS new YORK BANK
Douglass is Said TO Have Taken
S250,000-.Lost in Wall Street
Part Of the Loot Found in the Mat
tress Of a Bed Occupied by o. M.
bennett, a Stock Broker.

New York City.-Detectives work
ing in the interests Of the Trust Com
pany of America, whose assistant
bond clerk, W. o. Douglass, abscond-
ed with Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cifc bonds valued, according to the
company, at $4,000, stopped Oliver
M. bennett, sole partner of o. M
bennett & Co., brokers', AZ Wall
Street, as he was leaving the Manhat-
tan Club after spending the night
there, and told him he, would.have to
submit to a search. The detectives
went back with bennett to his apart
ments in the club and found about
$4,000 worth Of the missing bonds
between the mattresses on his bed.
It was admitted that the total
populations of Douglass would
amount to considerably more than
the $4,000 in railroad bonds he
hypothecated to protect his margin
losses in Wall Street speculation.
In the confession he made after
two of his fellow employees trailed
him to his hiding place, Douglass said
he had dipped his fingers into the Sc
curities to the extent of probably
$250,OO0. While denying that the
embezzlement has reached such pro-
portions, the officers of the bank now
concede that Douglass had been con-
fiscating negotiable paper to his own
gambling uses for ONE time. In
one quarter it is said that the de-
fciency will not fall short of $780,
600.
AS a result of Douglass admis-
sions a part of the last batch that dis
appeared-S5O,00 900 in bonds of the
Rock Island and Pacifc-are now in
the hands of a reputable broker who
is holding them by consent. Steps
are being taken to recover the other
bonds.
This announcement vas made after
Oakleigh Thorne, the millionaire
president Of the Trust Company, had
had a talk with bennett, the broker
who had been named by Douglass in
the statement which he made after
his capture with his wife in the Port
land Hotel.
Douglass, who lived at No. 100 FL
ton street, Brooklyn, is thirty-four
years old and bore a reputation sec
ond to no employee in the Trust Com
pany of North America until it de-
veloped by chance that ne was a de-
faulter. Then it was that his fellow
clerks, headed by A. M. Ostrom,
turned sleuths. 1t was Ostrom who
ran down the alleged young defaulter
and who turned him over to the po-
lice.
Douglass gave out a statement
which would indicate that he had
been depending on his employers to
finance stock speculation of his own
for some time. ..r.
II have been hitting Wall Street;
that's what was the matter" he said.
Il first started in specializing in a
small way and gradually I got pulled
into it deeper than I had expected. In
the recent slump in Wall Street I
was lost before I realized 1t. I have
given the detectives information
which I think will be favorable to
my case"
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DIED OF BROKEN HEART.
Millionaire Merchant of Philadelphia,
Benedict Gimbel, Commits Suicide.

Benedict Gimbel, Commits Suicide.
Hoboken, N. benedict Gimbel,
a Philadelphia millionaire depart
ment store proprietor died in st.
Mary's Hospital here Of wounds
which he inflicted upon himself after
his arrest in New York City on a SEN
sational charge.
The wounds alone were not Of such
a nature as to have necessarily
caused death. The surgeons who
fought to save Gimbel asserted that
it was the MISUNDERSTANDING shame
and a broken heart that ended the
most amazing tragedy ever recorded
in the police history of New York.
Gimbel cut his throat in the Palace
| Hotel, Hoboken, with a broken water
pitcher. He had lost much blood by
the time he was found, lying. uncon-
scious on the bathroom floor, but 1t
was expected that he would recover
Even opiates could not make him for
get his terrible disgrace, however,
and it became apparent that his men,
tai strain was slowly killing him.
Benedict Gimbel was only thirty
five years old. A week ago he was
one of the best known young bust
ness men in the country. He was re-
spected. He had many traits of char
acter, g~eniality, generosity, kindness,
which endeared him to his friends.
When he ran over to New York his
reputation. was without a stain, and
1t would have been hard to find any
one with aught to say against him.
He was arrested in a cab in Gen.
trail Park. With him was a sixteen
year-old boy, Ivor Clark, whose moth
er had made a complaint to the Dis
trict Attorney that Gimbel exercised
an evil influence over her son. Gin
bel was overcome with fear at the
prospect of publicity following his
arrest.
He offered to Detective Reardon a
bride of s2100. To Assistant District
Attorney Krotel he offered a bride OF
$4,000 if he would drop the COM
plant.
He was out on $4,000 bail when he
.rt hic throat
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-08
Camphor Tree in Florida.

AS showing how favorable to the
growth of the camphor tree is the
soil and climate of Florida, an in
stance may be cited of one grown
by Capt. ]. P. Renfroe, of Richland.
1t is a splendid camphor tree seven
teen years old that is forty feet in
height, it's branches cover forty feet
and its diameter twelve inches above
the ground is four feet. The splen-
did hills around Richland seem to
be specially adapted both in soil and
climatic conditions to the growth and
development of the camphor tree in
it's highest state. The tree becomes
useful for the production of the gum
within a few years after planting.
The growth mentioned is an indica-
ton that the tree thrives we'll in this
Statewide City Democrat.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-08
portion, the full fronts and back. The

portion, the full fronts and back. The
fronts are gathered and Joined to the
yoke but the back extends to the
neck. The sailor collar can be cut
on square op round outline in the
back. There Is a convenient as we'll
as smart patch pocket and the sleeves
are gathered into bands whether they
are finished with cuffs or with over
laps in shirtwaist style.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is four and a
quarter yards twenty-one, two yards
thirty-two or two and a quarter yards
forty-four inches wide.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-08
TO VALUE THE BIG RAILROADS.
John F. Stevens Likely to Do 1t For
the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Washington, D. C.-John F. Stew
ems, who recently resigned as chief
engineer Of the Panama Canal, Is to
enter the employ Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad for the purpose Of making a
valuation of its property.
1t Is believed that this action is in
tended to anticipate such action by
the Government, as the roads see that
in the near future the matter Of max
ing a Government valuation Of rail-
road properties is likely to become an
issue and they desire to know their
status and what may be expected
when that time comes. In other
words, the roads want to be protected
against the possible disposition OF
Government appraisers to underestl-
mate the value of their holdings.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-08
PLEADS 4UHWR|TTEN LAW
Judge W. G. Loving Kills Young
Theodore Estes in Virginia.
Manager of T. f. Ryan's Estate Says
No Power Could Have Prevented
Death Of Daughters Assailant. J

Lynchburg, Va.-Former Judge W.
G.. Loving, who shot and killed Theo-
dore Estes at Oak Ridge, the country
estate of Thomas F. Ryan, was adj
mitted to $4,000 bail. He will plead
the unwritten law at his trial.
Charging Estes with drugging his
daughter Elizabeth, aged nineteen,
and assaulting her while in a drugged
condition, after learning of the al
legged: incident from the lips of his
daughter, Judge Loving drove some
eight or ten miles before locating the
youngi man, and he shot and killed
him with a double-barreled shotgun,
without waiting for the victim to
make any explanation.
Judge Loving represented Amherst
County before moving to Nelson in
the Legislature and served as Judge
Of the County Court Of Nelson until
that court was abolished by the new:
Constitution. For three years he has
been in charge of the Ryan estate as
Superintendent. Bail Commissioner
Payne, who allowed Judge Lov1ng's
bail, made the following statement:
Judge Loving learned that Estes
had taken his daughter riding Sunday,
night, and he brought the girl back
home drugged and unconscious.
Judge Loving waited until he could
get the full story from the girls lips
about the drugging and assault, and
then he took his gun and went IN
search Of Estes.
Judge Loving said: when I heard
the awful story from the lips of my
dear one I was insane. I waited to
. learn all the facts and then nothing
in Gods or mans power could have
stopped me from taking his life. I
did it after careful consideration"
Miss Loving is in a highly nervous
condition as the result Of the affair,
and is confined to her bed. Harry
Snead, a brother-in-law Of Judge Low
ing, learned from his sister, Mrs.
Loving, of her husbands mission, and
he made a desperate effort to stop
him, reaching Oak Ridge three min
utes after the shooting. No further
trouble Is anticipated.
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THE HAWK AND THE SQUIRREL.
A Contest in the WildS Of California
Related.

Driving down the gentle slopes of
Sonoma Mountain-the mountain is
234O feet high-we observed a very
large hawk-the largest of the
hawks, a large brown-spotted fellow,
perhaps rightly an eagle-perched
on the fence by the roadside. AS we
approached, he flew quartering to-
ward us, dove down at the foot of a
rocky hill! and arose in the air carry
ing a full-grown gray ground squir-
rel in his talons. This squirrel is
nearly the size Of the timber gray
squirrel of the east, and looks very
much like it, except that it usually
has several l~ight-colored bars on it's
sides, and old specimens are of a
lighter earthly gray. 1t lives in holes
in the ground, usually in dry, rocky
places.
The hawk flew about fifty yards,
when the squirrel reached up and bit
him OF the leg. This squirrel has a
very tough hide, sharp, strong teeth,
and is a fighter from away back. The
hawk at onc released his talons, but
the squirrel hung on with his teeth
quite a little time, and then dropped
to the ground and started for his
rocky home. The hawk flew down
100 yards further and alighted on
the fence. The squirrel was injured
somewhat, but made very good time
honly Tho y uyl- rroifnI until ho u,oc
within a few yards of home when he
darted for him again and arose with
him. This last flight of the hawk
showed with what wonderful velocity
the great bird could pass through the
air. The hawk had flown only two
or three rods when the squirrel bit
him again, and he dropped it. The
poor squirrel was now badly used
up, but he did his best to get under
cover. The hawk again perched on
the fence. The squirrel had reached
within a few feet of it's burroW when
the hawk started for him again. This
time he seized the now we'll nigh
helpless squirrel securely with both
feet and sat down on his tail-the
hawks tail-stretched out his legs
to their fullest extent and stretched
his head and neck away back out of
danger, and so held his victim until
his struggles were over, and then he
dew up on an old tree to enjoy his
dinner; and the show was over
California, in Forest and Stream.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-08

illustration It is made of white linen
simply stitched, but if a more elab-
crate effect is desired the hens a
be hemstitched and the tucks put In
by hand, a finish which gives an ex-
ceedingly dainty and altogether at
tractive effect while il is in the height
of style. Again flouncing c. bordered
material can be used if the hem
and tucks either are all omitted or
the tiny ones are put in above the
design.
The skirt is made in three portions.
The lower flounce is hemmed while
the upper hounce and the skirt are
finished with wide tucks at their
lower edges. Above this hem and
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-08
PRESIDENT DEFENDS COURSE.
Mentions Labor Lenders and Harri-
man As Undesirable Citizens.

Washington, D. CT In a letter
President Roosevelt defended his
course in speaking of Meyer, Hay
wood and Debs, the labor leaders, and
E. H. Hartman, the capitalist, as
undesirable citizens" The letter
was in answer to a protest from the
Cook County Moyer-Haywood con-
ference" of Chicago, against what
the President said about Meyer and
Haywood, officers of the Western
Federation of Miners, who are to be
tried for the murder OF Ex-Governor
Steunenberg, Of Idaho.
Honore Jaxon, Of Chicago, chair
man of the Moyer-Haywood confer
ence, wrote to the President that his
reference to them was designed to in
fuence the course of Justice In the
trial of Meyer and Haywood. The
President in reply not only holds that
he had a right to say what he did,
but condemns JaXon and his col
leagues on the ground that they have
organized to prevent a fair trial TOR
the accused men.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-08
THE TREMBLING HEART.

lift my head and walk M ways
Before the world without a tear,
And bravely unto those | meet
I smile a message Of good cheer;
give my lips to laugh and song,
And somehow get me through each day
But oh, the tremble in my heart
Since she has gone away.
3Her feet had known the singing thorns,
Her eyes the blistering tears;
Bent were her shoulders with the weight
And sorrow of the years;
The. lines were deep upon her brow,
Her hair was thin and gray;
land oh, the tremblc in my heart
Since she has gone away!
T am not sorry, I am glad;
/. would not have her here again;
God gave her strength life's bitter cup
Unto the bitterest dreg to drain.
II will not have less strength than she,
I proudly tread my stony way;
But oh, the tremble in my heart
Since she has gone away.
Ella Higginson.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-08
FiIet Lace.

The popularity of hlet lace is prac-
tically assured for the season, most
of the new dentelles designed as trim
mings showing the influence of this
vogue. The prettiest tea-gowns, as
we'll as afternoon frocks, are fash
toned of snowy crepe de chine, sup
plemented with graduating panels of
string colored flet lace mounted over
chiffon, or are adorned around the
hem with diamond-shaped motifs Of
the same, outlined with narrow pleat-
ed frills of st~ring-colored chiffon to
match.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-08
"Parkini' said his mother.

I'VE stopped at the Gibbuns man
sion palace in Clydale-automobiled
out there, and if you had seen my
room! Such a magnifcence! Rugs
so thick and soft it was like walking
on I don't know what. Furniture!
Gorgeous bathroom with silver fau-
Gets and pier glasses. Servants and
funkies and table cloths with lace
edges and china that scared me to
death. Man came up to know If he
could help me dress. Oh, maybe 1
wasn't treated we'll! I saw Ridgely's
wife. style!"
What did she wear?" asked Mrs.
Jones, looking down at her own bar
gain silk waist.
"Don't ask me-" replied Jones.
Suppose some day we had all
those things" unused Mrs. Jones. IF
Mr.. Burmerly has taken such a fancy
to you he'll give you something bet
ter now, and then What a beau
tiful time you must have had"
"The darnedest, most uncomforta-
BILE time I ever had in my life," said
Jones. Here, I want my old coat
and slippers-my old slippers. Get
off me, you scaramauches. Mother,
what have you got the cloth laid for?
You don't mean to say you are going
to feed me! What's for SUPPER"
at suppose after all the lovely
things you've BEEN"
whats for supper" reiterated
Jones, embracing her.
"It's-it's Irish stew" faltered
Mrs. Jones.
Jones took his hat from the table,
threw it in the air and dexteriously
caught it: "Hooray!" he cried, II
thought of it, but I hardly dared hope
for it. Now I'll have a square meal
at last. Children, leave my legs
alone. Let's all so out to the kitchen
and help mother. There's no place
like home. Irish tew."-Chicago
News.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-08
Mushroom Hats in Vogue.

The mushroom hats continue in
vogue, the wide bandeau at the back
furnishing a most convenient place
for much of the trimming of feathers,
flowers, or velvet ribbon bows, which
droop against the hair with pleasing
effect. Occasionally the bandeau
passes all around the head size, and
is covered with Topped ribbon, rails
ing the hat in a becoming way.