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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13


Inc new ana NJ steame
"hlch, tsao1gf oVerinsured, IS likely Il
be reporsea soss evidently to have
consignment OF specie IN board. Fiv
hundred thousand pounds / fancy yo,
mentioned AS the figure in the billiard
o this moTning. Well, II one is go
Ing In for robbary-or piracy, I suppos,
1t would turn gut to be in this insta.:c
there's nothing like a large coup
It's your glsggler who usually fails ant
gets laid hy the heels. Drive on, ant
be a little more explicit"
Couldn't she steamer be lost some
how in Abe gulf of Mexico and q boat
containing the boxes Of specie n Its
way through this channel of yours In
to the interior OF FIoriGaz"
Mr.. Shelf nnopged his forehead again,
Don't Steamers" he asked. don't
they sometimes have sad accidents
which cause them to blow up?"
Such things have been known. But
It's rather rough on the crew., don't
you thfrikg"
On. poor fellows, yes. But a sailors
life is always hazardous. Indeed. what
a he expect with wages at their pre-
sent ruiiaoaas rate? shipowners must
I've"
"oh. you beauty" said Patrick Cam
bel.
Il must ask You to refrain from these
comments, STR But, tell me, before I
go any further in this confidence, am
I to couut upon your assistance"
That depends upon many things. To
begin wish. shsreu have to be modifi-
cations before I dabbie. I'm not obtru-
siveiy ~sqaearnisl, about human life--my
own or pfher peoples. On occasion l
bagged my man because he had twice
shot Mt me. Still piracy, complicated
with what practically amounts to muir
der, Us AN art which | haven't traficked
In as yea. and, curious to relate, 1
don't intend 10 begin. Your scheme is
delicious ss IT'S cold b%loodedness. but 1t
would lock- better If It were toned down
. trtfae. By ahe way, better help YOUR
self to q drink. Your nerves are in
such a spgele that / fancy you'll faint
ribbon ara ysur evening dress. Humph!
That's n sscos,a mates nip-four fin
gers if itss ~ ssrop. Apparently you're
used to this. BY the way. what honor
arium do you o I should take for
engineering this piece of rascality in
your favor
At VIII give Won s5o0."
Now. would YOU really? Not even
guineaSs~
y s.Mr. gsr,nneI. TIL make r. 81 Thousand
Theret-
..Mr. srf,er.fs,r. shelf when , monkey
wants a xat 10 r,rl, c~hestnuts for him
Dut Of The ssss. hn tsrst haa n he
stronger anzua lao cal You aon't oc-
cupy that suyIshIe pogition. In fact T
svnv Nj. paad MT va rtic,,,,rive ~
can x,m the ften,. FIR vo,IrseIr
Now. I'm make Won an offer-haIf Of ali
fhe n3,,,1der and entire ,.nntroI ~ ayorv-
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

Some dairymen who wish to keep their
lows working to their full capacity feed
a small amount Of ground oats with bran,
right through the summer. This may be a
good practice with cows which have been
milking six or seven months, but with
fresh cows they will do their best on grass
and the grain fed may well ge kept in re-
serve until fall.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

The male population is made up OF
fellows who p~atronixe manicure parlors
and at men.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

> The man who buys all his feeds and sells
all his milk has an easy proposition as
compared with the man who feeds his own
crops to his cows. There Is no way Of
telling how much you are getting for your
crops unless you know exactly what each
COW Is doing with her feed.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13
DAIRY NOTES..

Many think 1t is too much work to feed
soiling crops. OF course 1t Is some work,
1t Is the best method of helping ones
scant pastures. There are times during
the summer when stock should be taken
of the pastures for a week or two, espe-
cially In dry seasons. A nice, green crop,
which can be cut and fed to the cows in
the yards or managers, will come In nice
at that time.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

When building a silo It is safe to esti-
mate that each COW will eat thirty pounds
Of silage a day for $50 days. Thus it win
take 300 pounds to feed one COW six
months,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

One OF the best butter makers in Ohio
uses q pint Of buttermilk as a starter. she
uses q barrel churn, and cools her cream to
6s or % degrees before churasas.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

Some butter makers claim that butter
not be. worked too long at one fire
as 1t Is apt to injure the grain. A second
working in two or three hours after the
first will insure an even distribution Of the
salt @W 6F54 ~ iTt
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

A dairyman tells US the hardest thing
for him to learn was the Importance Of
finding out the value of every COW on the
farm. This must be done by every dairy
man sooner or later. There is no other
way of putting the dairy on a safe work.
ing basis.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

Mrs. r. G.. Of Harrison county, asks If
colorins should be used in butter now.
There will be no need of coloring during
the summer months while the cows are on
grass. During May and June many buy
ers even find fault with the deep natural
color.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

Giving a COW all she will eat does not al
ways produce the biggest flow Of milk.
The profit comes In feeding a ration that
will produce milk. It is estimated that
twenty COWS fed on good rations will pro-
duce as much as twenty cows fed on a
poor ration.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

Don't on any account set a hen this
month without first busting her thor
oughly with insect powder or better
still dipping her for lice. A setting
hen has not the incest job in the world
this hot weather the best she can be
fixed so add as much to her comfort as
you can by Kidding her of all vermin.
1t is best to dust her again during the
time she is setting and nee after she
brings off her brood.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

Chicks that are SO near gone as to
actually appear dead may be rescusci-
tated after a little wetting if wrapped
warmly INC placed neal the fire. Often
after a severe storm when the hens
with chicks fail to reach shelter sew
eral chicks will be found so chilled and
wet that little hopes of a recovery were
entertained, but heat will bring them
out all right. So it is always wise to
get right out after each storm and see
what you can find.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-20

competency, and the warrant for Ruef's
arrest placed in the hands of Ruefa
friend, Coroner Walsh. The coroner
was also unable to find him, and at
Heneys' demand was also disqualified
for bias and incompetency. Then w.
J. Buggy was appointed as elisOr of the
court. and in company with Detective
BuTns Went out TO a roadside resort, ar
rested Ruef, and brought him in within
a few hours.
With Ruef once i'll custody, the whole
conspiracy appeared TO collapse. In Il
few days Burns had the confession OF
nearly every supervisor regarding ev-
cry corrupt bargain that had been put
through the board. On Monday. March
Is. came the climax. One after the
other the supervisors told their story
10 the grand jurors, and at a midnight
session 90 indictments We're found
against Ruef. 10 against Halsey, and
one against A. X Detwiler of Toledo.
Ohio, for bribery. The indictments
charge that Ruef bribed Il supervisors
to pass the overhead trolley franchise,
Il TO favor the gas company, Is 10
favor the Home Telephone company,
and IS to grant the prize fight privi-
| leges tG Britt, Graney, Levy. and Coff-
roth Five days later - more indict-
ments were found against Detwiler, and
nine against Louis Glass. who was vice
president of the Pacific Coast Tele-
phone {. Telegraph company at the
time of the auction for votes. Now
! there is talk of indicting men still
higher up in the corporations, and
Heney says that he has Just begun"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-20

men who make up this body were nam
ed by Ruef and SchmitZ as make
weights for their union labor ticket.
Certain unions had to be represented
on the ticket, and as the union labor
party had i'll its whole career elected
only one supervisor. nobody supposed
it mattered what name was put up.
When the returns of the election came
in. and il was found that the entire
union labor ticket, supervisors includ-
ed, had been elected. the most aston
ished men in the city were Ruef and
Schmitz 1t was the voting machine
that did it. The election of 1908 was
the first time the machine was used
throughout the city. The people want
ed Schmitz and they were uncertain
about the way to vote split tickets. So
they pulled the straight ticket" han
dle-and have been paying for their
fun ever since.
Prior to the beginning of 1906 the
grating OF Ruef and Schmitz was linn
tied Most of the citizens thought 1t
only talk" Those who knew better
did not care. Some noise was made by
the "hOldup' OF the French restaur-
ants. One of these was closed sum
marily on the ground that its upstairs
rooms violated the moral law and the
|city ordinances. The others had their
licenses suspended. Then Abraham
Ruef appeared before the police com
mission as counsel for the restaurants.
One of the police commissioners did
not think this Il sufficient cause for re
ncwinS the licenses, and Mayor Schmitz
removed him. and the restaurant bust.
ness Went on without criticism from
the powers. A handsome monthly fee
for Ruef resulted. but it was not 50
profitable as it appeared at the time
1t is for this coup that Ruef is on trial
on five indictments, with Schmit1
awaiting a jury on the same charge
The saloon and cigar businesses were
! also called upon for contributions. But
| this sort of plumber was not one tC
rouse strong Indignation among those
| who knew about il. 1t is of course
very reprehensible to blackmail French
restaurants and saloons. but after al
| it is difficult to get indignant wher
Dick Turpin has his pockets picked.
Then came the political overturn o
the election of 1905, and with the be
ginning of 1906 the entire city govern
ment was in the hands of Ruef
Schmitz was mayor by a larger major
lity than ever. and every man in The
city government was a Ruef-Schmit
nominee. Then the loot began. Herr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-20
MUNICIPAL GRAFT ILLUSTRATED AT SAN FRANCISCO

Union square was captured by Ruef
himself. who had the audacity to take
the leadership OF the gathering, and to
harangUe the crowd from the platform.
But few days later Rudolph Sprecll-
els announced that he had taken up the
organization Of an anti-graft movement,
and that 100000 was pledged for the
expenses Of Il campaign. Then the
three accidents combined against the
fourth. On Oct. 20 District Attorney
Langd0n announced that he had APP
pointed Francis J. Heney as assistant
district attorney; Rudolph Spreckels
declared that his organization, money,
and personal services were at the call
of the district attorney; it became pub
lie that William J. Burns Of the United
States secret seryice-the detective
that had gathered the evidence that
sent Senator Mitchell and the Oregon
representatives in congress TO jail
had been borrowed from the govern
ment and was at work. 4 new grand
jury was summoned, and a bitter fight
begun.
RUFF in panic had the acting mayor
Big Jim Gallagher"-who had regular
ly distributed the bride money among
the supervisors. remove LangGun from
the district attoneyship and appoint
Ruef in his place. Then there were in
functions and writs of prohibition, and
Ruef was worsted. and LanSdon and
Heney represented the people in the
selection of grand jurors. The grand
| jury began its sittings Nov -, and at
once returned five indictments against
Ruef and SchmitZ for eXtOTting money
| from the French restaurants. Then the
grand jury appeared to stop. and there
was popular disappointment. Was this
all the prosecution had. after the bic
scandals of gas and telephone and
trolley briberies?
| II was a good deal like capturing
lJesse James and indicting him for vul
(gar language.
Then came = battle Of legal technical
tiles in which the California law is Sc
rich The grand jurors were put OF
trial and badgered for weeks in the eff
fort TO discover some point on which
the indictments might be invaiidated
The case was already three times be
fore the supreme court of the state an,
iappeal taken to the supreme court o
the United States before the selection
of a jury TO try Ruef was begun. Thel
Ruef went into hiding. and his friend
} Sheriff O'NeiH. reported that he wa
; unable to find him. The court declare
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-20

We're impracticabIe, and that the citi-
zCns could accept the overhead trolley
or make the best of the cable-and the
fighting Spreckles blood was up.
The Overhead Trolley started II.
That was many months before the
great fire, and the battle was fought
with circulars. with petitions, with in
terviews in the press, with straw bal
lots. aud with long arguments before
Inc supervisors. The anti-uoliey peo.
pie won on every point, the supervis-
ors refused to give Calhoun the over
head franchise. and the railroad com
pany began to reconstruct the worn
out road into a new cable system. Ru-
dolph Sprecklcs then enlisted his faith
,r. Claus Spreckles in the fight. and
a ten million dollar corporation was
formed 10 put in underground conduit
roads that would make the United rail
roads a back number. Then came the
great fire and a demand for those mil
lions in reconstruction of buildings
and. while the ruins still smoked Cal
hOun descended on the city. and the
supervisors suddenly granted the priv
ilege Of changing the cable roads to
overhead trolleys. not only on Suffer
street. but also on Market street. the
great artery Of the city. and the Ii
miles of cable lines that flowed into it.
Then the Spreckles anger rose higher,
and at last joined the Heney anger,
and found in William H. Langdon a
Kindred spirit.
Al this is not to cast doubts on the
public spirit of Rudolph Spreckles OF
his associates. So far they are show
ING as nigh public spirit as was ever
shown by men in such situations. 1t
is merely to explain how their atten
ton has been fixed upon the evil cOndi
tions that have enwrapped San Fran
cisco. and the steps by which they
have been reused to enter the contest
instead of going to the country ant
hoping that the police would attend tC
it while they were away.
Il want to make this city in which
! can bring up my children" says Ru
dolph Spreckles. But if Patrick Cal
noun had been less brusque about tha
overhead trolley he might still hays
been one of the honest citizens who
want somebody else to clean out the
city so that they can safely bring III
| their children in it,
/ Butchers, Bakers and CandlestiCk Max
Elected.
! Perhaps a fourth accident should b'
inoted. Ii is the board Of supervisor:
Itself. In the campaign of 1905 the Il
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-20

which swept away all the business part
of the city. burnt $35O,000 900 worth of
property. and left 100000 people home
less. But the instinct of thrift was not
destroyed and while the fire was still
burning the supervisors met on the set
date, opened the bids for the telephone
franchise, and sOlemnly voted that the
Home corporations offer was the one
to be preferred. Then in May. while
the ashes Of the city still smoked, and
4 vast army still stood in the bread
line and women cooked in the streets,
and the military patrOlled the city, and
men were trying to reOrganiZe the shat
tered machinery Of industry and COM
mCrce, the supervisors met and sudden
ly granted the United railroads the
privilege of using the overhead trolley
on all the lines formerly propelled by
cable. Patrick Calhoun, president of
the company. had offered the city 5000
GOO in cash and various other induce
ments for the privilege in the preced-
ing year. Now the supervisors granted
it with no payment into the city treas
ury.
Conditions Grow Worse and Worse.
Then. as the business and industries
of the city recovered gradually from
the paralysis of the great disaster. and
normal activities were one after the
other resumed. the administration
broadened its field of jobbery. The
vast opportunities for reOrganizing the
7.
municipal improvements, of restoring
! the streets and buildings of the munich
! pality, were neglected. ANY one who
cared might talk of the city beautiful,
of wide streets. of high-pressure salt
water system that would save the city
/ from future fires. These interested the
administration not al all Not one step
has been taken by official authority to
better conditions in the city. or to pre-
vent a repetition of the great disaster.
What interested the administration was
graft, and it soon became understood
that permission to violate the law was
for sale in lots to suit
Conditions became so bad that sew
eral movements were begun TO better
them, and to force the city government
10 pay some attention to its duties. tC
search out corruption. They came tC
lnOthing. Too many of the 'prominent
business men" were prOfiting by cor
rupt government, and every committee
that was called together had enough
representatives of special interests t,
block action. In September a mas.
meeting of the commercial interests il
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-20
lEoIlier,s WccklyD


The anti-graft uprising in San Fran
cisco is due to combination Of three
accident-William II. Langdon, Fran
els J. Heney. and Rudolph Spreckels.
Langdon is an accident because Ruef
insisted on his getting out of the office
of superintendent of schools TO make
a forlorn-hope run for district attOr-
ney-partly because Ruef wanted the
superintendency for a friend, and part
~ because he thought Langdon would
be safe, sane. and pliable in case he
should by any chance be elected.
Honey comes into the case by the
accident of a speech, delivered in be
half of Mayor SchmitZ's opponent tand
incidentally of LangdOn's opponent at
the close of the municipal campaign III
November. 1905. On the heels Of his
triumphs over the Oregon land thieves
he was asked to speak at the final
rally of the fusion party that had uni
ted the republican and democratic or
CARNATIONS for the defeat of Schmitz:
and. carried away by the intOXicaJiOn OF
his own eloquencC he told the big meet
ing that he knew of his own knoWl-
edge that Ruef was a crater, and that
before a year was up the people of San
Francisco would call upon him 10 come
back and put Ruef in San Quentin.
Subsequently he was sorry he spoke,
for the then sitting grand jury asked
him for his proofs, and he had nothing
better to produce than the certainty
or moral conviction held in common
with several thousand of his fellow
citizens. few days later SChmitZ
was reelected by an extraordinary ma
joTity. Ruef was triumphant, and
Heney was left to occupy the migrate
full role of the person known in sport
ing circles as the "four-tlUshcr." The
spirit of Heney ranked under the III
jury to his reputation, and when the
moment came that gave him the chance
to make his words good he turned the
land frauds prosecutions over TO other
hands and threw himself Vigorously
into the campaign to send the graft
administration to prison.
Rudolph Spreckles is in the fight by
the accident that he owns a fine home
on Pacific avenue and made up his
mind that the United railroads SHOULD
not run an overhead trolley line il
front of his place. The people along
that line wanted the existing cable
service changed to an underground con
duit electric road. Mr.. Calhoun Of the
United railroads CURLY informed the
citizens that the conduit electric roads
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-20

is an extract from the confession of
one of the Ruef IS in the board of SUI
pervisOrs the bakery wagon
driver:
Shortly after we went into Office it
was generally agreed that we cOnsti-
tuted a happy family OF IS members.
With us il was case of one
supervisor | meant TO be square
when | was elected, but one day we
seemed to understand simultaneously
for the life of me | couldn't tell you
who told me about it-that the fight
trust wanted permit. While nobody
ever said word about money, we all
seemed to realize that we were to be
paid for our vote. You can call it in
tuition. or anything you like, but | call
it Indian, information Well. the mat
ter finally came up before the board
and it was unanimously passed. \
couple of days later Big jim Gala
CHER came 10 me and handed me $500
That was my downfall. 1t looked like
a lot OF money to me at the time, and
there seemed to be mutual under
standing among all concerned that a
rich harvest was to be reapod during
our term of Office"
The Butcher and Baker Get the Dough.
This was in January. 1906. Il few
days after the board had taken its
seat. Then in February came the fix
ing of gas rates, and the supervisors
got $3.50 apiece for making an S5-cenl
rate where the platform called for a 10
! cent rate. In April came the battle be
tween the two telephone companies-
! the Home Telephone company wishing
| the privilege of coming into the city
the Pacific States Telephone company
wishing to hold its monopoly. Halsey
! 10 deal with Ruef. and went directly t,
the supervisors. He paid 10 of the L
5000 apiece to vote against @rantin:
a franchise to the HCme Telephone
company. The new company put III
affairs in the hands of Ruef, and Rue
in politics not dreamed of i'll his philOS
ophy. At the orders of the boss. eigh
Of the men who had been bought b,
Halsey voted against him. As the.
had already received 5000 Ruef pai
them only $500 for their votes. TIL
Others who had not yielded to temptg
ton got $4,000. The eight confess t
humiliation at having to break thCi
word to Halsey-but they kept hi
money.
| Two weeks later came the great fire
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-20
Grip Quickly Knocked Out.

'SOme weeks ago during the severe
winter weather both my wife and my
self contracted severe colds which
speedily developed into the worst kind
of Ia grippe with all its miserable
symptoms" says J. S. Egleston OF Ma
pie Landing, Iowa knees and joints
aching, muscles sore, head stopped up,
eyes and nose running. with alternate
spells of chills and fever. We began
using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
aiding the same with a double dose
of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
tablets. and by its liberal use sOoa
completely knocked out the grip Sold
by all leading druggists.
KOdol for dyspepsia clears the stom-
ach and makes the breath as sweet AZ
rose Kodol is sold by druggists IN
a guarantee relief plan. 1t conforms
strictly to the national pure food and
drugs law Sold by all druggists.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-01-22
DIR. BISHOP THINKS
MOKUAWEOWEO MAY
NOT BE in ACTION

present eruption especial
July, privilege Of
presenting for long
locality about twenty-five miles SSW from the
This center built the
which that direction It
the island its sW which
twenty southwark
apparently this Kahuku
activity 1862 with of de-
earthquakes longseaed ncetated
rendng open still lava stream flowed
disturbance after twenty
copious floods of lava quietly pouring out
volcano good degree independent of the
the fact that both In
action Mokuaweoweo although
exhibited, exists between Ma
and Kilauea
action feel
information exceedingly imperfect
rather conflicting reports received led to believe
little and perhaps activity at all
Nokuaweoweo its vicinity
these avasteams issued forth? Were
their the vicinity Puuokeokeo before
they could
Keokeo which about $500 feet
up twenty Probably
miles
activity speedily
reliable the involved This
opportunity observing gandest
of terrestrial phenomena s. e. BISHOP.