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Berriesl Berrles!!

Fresh dewberries and blackberres
from DR.. Hardy's fruit farm, deliver.
cred at your home. At
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Berries! Berries!!

Fresh dewberries and blackberries
from Or Hardy's fruit farm deliy.
cred at your home. Att
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-07
Berriesl 5errles!!

Fresh dewberries and blackberries
from DR., Hardy's fruit farm dehv-
cred at your home. At.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-07
BRYAN IN ALBANY
SAYS REPRESENTATIVES, ARE
NECESSARY EVILS.

Lauds the President for His Course in
Dealing With corporations-Pro
hibiting Them From Contrib
utIng to Political Campaigns
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When YOU feel the need of a pill
take q Dewitt Little Early Riser. Sold
hy hoffman Drug Go.
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Campaign Manager for c. ]. West,
Enid. Okla
Pear Sir notice IN today's Oklaho-
man statement that ID. VI. Walker
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Cordial Invitation ~ al.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
HAS TO SUSPEND ALLOTINC WORK
Frozen Ground Holds Up Trip Surveying The Family Record
Requirement Also Impedes Progress Of Work. bull
Opening Will Likely Occur Next Fall

Intending settlers who are looking
for an early opening Of the govern
ment lands In Trip county on the
Rosebud Indian reservation will have
to wait longer than first was antici-
pated. Such Is the information given
out by J.. H. Scriven, the governments
allotting agent, who has been at work
on these lands since last spring. AS
to the progress being made in the
work of allotment, Mr.. Scriven made
the following statement when asked
as to the possibility of an early open
ing of the government lands, It being
understood that the opening was de-
pendent largely upon the time 1t would
take to allot the lands:
I'VE were forced to suspend u field
work last week on account of where
the ground was burned over last fall
1t has frozen so deep that we could
not drive stakes or dig pit holes. we
have allotted since beginning the field
work on June 1 700 different applica-
lions, and will have about 900 more
to make In the spring. This winter
the force will be occupied In enrolling
what has been allotted, taking family
records and listing new applications
for next years work. I am satisfied
we will be able to get all of this kind
of work done by the time the frost Is
out of the ground, SO we can begin
field work again next spring. The
department requires me to take the
family record or census Of each person
that I allot, and as this is a new de-
parture from the old-time methods,
when all an Indian had to say was
'Allot my child and the allotting agent
did the rest, the Indians were very,
very slow for the first two or three
months in giving in their records.
This made it very i~nconvenient and
difficult work, as we frequently had to
make drives much too far in order to
reach our days allotting.
with all details arranged, l can
systematic and bunch the allotments
so that we easily can do twice al fast
work as we have been able to accom-
plish this year., and If the frost is out
of the ground sufficiently for us to be-
gin field work by April / we will be
through by Aug. /, and with all the
little details arranged 1t will not be
necessary for me to put In much Of
my time in the field. which will give
me ample time to work on my books
and records. Thus I will be able to
keep up close to the field work and
will be able also to send In my sched-
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
CONVENTIONS ARE COMING.
Mitchell Has Four Listed, Including
Corn Show This Week.

Mitchell Has Four Listed, Including
Corn Show This Week.
During the winter season Mitchell
will be busy entertaining the various
conventions which will assemble be-
fore the opening Of spring. The first
convention scheduled for the month Is
the South Dakota Corn Show and
Breeders association, which will be
held this week. This is held under the
direction Of expert corn growers.
Large cash premiums have been offer.
ed to bring out the exhibits.
Following this meeting will come
the South Dakota Telephone associa-
ton, which is scheduled for a two
days meeting, beginning Jan. 8. Fol-
lowing Che telephone men will come
the Improved Live Stock Breeders as
ISOLATION for the latter part of Janu-
airy and continuing over one day into
February. When the stockmen assem-.
BILE in Mitchell for the next meeting
they will be greeted by an enlarged
building, which was built last spring.
During the week of the stock show
the South Dakota Poultry show will be
held in the city hall building.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
500 FOR EVERY ONE
Banks Thrive and Show High Aver
age Of Deposits.

age OF Deposits.
Reports of the state bank examiner
and the national banks doing business
In South Dakota make a good showing
for the last year. The reports cover
the condition of banks In September,
1906, and August, 1907, practically a
year, and show that in that time the
state banks have increased from 1886
to 387, with a heavy increase In depos-
its. At the last named date the state
banks showed deposits amounting to
S34, 728, 628.64, an increase Of $685.
347.62 over the September condition
the previous year.
For the same time the national
banks of the state had increased from
IS to SO, six new banks having opened
for business in the year. These banks
carried $40, 229, 479.2 6, an increase Of
about 8 1000, O0O. 900 for the year, maxi
Ing the total net increase In deposits
in the state for the year 1898, 1872.
and the total bank deposits Of the pee
pie OF the state at that time $54,958,-
107. 80
While the last census of the state
showed a population of a half a mill
lon the increase since that time has
probably been sufficient to make bank
showing in round numbers 500 for
every resident Of the state. Of what
ever &
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
GOSPEL OF LOVE.

Parson MarrIes Widow After Many
Years-She Owns a Ranch.
Over a score Of years ago, when he
first came to Deadwood as a young
missionary from the East, Rev. George
Perry, then the first Presbyterian
clergyman in the Black Hills, met Mrs
Katherine Lane OF Whitewood. Mr.
Perry had his work cut out and stuck
to it nobly, enduring many privations
during the early days, that the dozen
churches he established In that section
might thrive, and he succeeded.
A a few days ago Rev. Perry surpris'
ed his old friends by leading Mrs
Lane, q comely and well-to-do widow
to the altar, and before they could re
ceive congratulations they made their
escape on a Southern honeymoon
Mrs. Lane is a large landowner.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
A NEWS OF INTEREST
GET NEW CLAIM IF LAND IS POOR.
klttredse Introduces Bill to Aid I'm
lucky Filters.

kittredse Introduces Bill to Aid Tn.
lucky Filters.
A number of homesteaders in the
western part of this state, and as
well In other homestead sections of
the United States will watch with In.
terest the bill. introduced at the open.
ing of the session by Senator Kilt.
redge.
The bill in question allows q set
tier a second homestead under Ger.
tain conditions, where the party did
not complete title to his first filing.
In the past, under congressional enact.
ment, settlers who could not secure
water on their locations, or who could
show good cause for other reasons,
were allowed, and to make new filings
on tracts more satisfactory to them,
the general land office ruling that
they had such privilege under the ex-
listing statutes. Since the general agi-
tation over the country in regard to
the management of the public lands,
the general land Office rules that such
settlers have no rights upon the tracts
which they have filed.
In many cases extensive improve
ment have been made upon just such
filings.
In Stanley county n claimant has
placed more than 1900 worth Of Inn
provement upon his tract, and In an
other a homesteader with a large
family has staked his all on such a
claim. These are only two incidents,
and probably every township west OF
the river would show one or two such
cases. Several Of the parties SO in
~terested asked Hon. C. H. Burke for
his assistance in their behalf, and he
has interested Senator Kittredge In
their cases, resulting in the introduc-
ton of a bill, which will give them
relief at the earliest possible oppor-
tunity.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
EASY FOR ~TREsPAssERs.
Homesteaders Who Cut Indians Tim
Der Are Given Maximum Fine.

Homesteaders Who Cut Indians Tim
Der Are Given Maximum Fine.
William Brooks and George Kelley,
homesteaders, residing In Western
South Dakota, appeared before Judge
Garland of the United States court in
Sioux Falls and pleaded guilty to an
information charging them with hav-
ing cut and hauled timber from an
Indian allotment. Owing to extenuat-
ing circumstances surrounding the
case, Judge Garland imposed the mini
mum fine of s25 upon each Of the do
PENDANTS, which they paid. and the
case against them was dismissed.
The two men who recently had ar
rived in South Dakota from Iowa
made homestead entry on land near
Philip in the western part of Stanley
county, near the boundary line of the
Cheyenne Indian reservation. Not re-
ahzing that they were violating the
federal statutes, they went a short
distance into the reservation to land
which had been allotted to individual
Indians, and cut timber with which
to construct their claim "shanties."
A government official who has SUI
pervision of that part of the reserva-
ton appeared upon the scene and
made the two surprised homesteaders
unload the timber from their wagon.
Complaint then was made to the fed
eral authorities Of South Dakota, and
the arrest of the two homesteaders
followed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
KEEPS AFTER HERD BAR.
Farmers Again Will Petition Board
That Rejected Demand.

Farmers Again Will Petition Board
That Rejected Demand.
The county commissioners of LYMAN
county, all of whom are said to be in
terested with stockmen, at a late meet
ing turned down the petition for an
election under the herd law of last
winter, declaring it TO be insufficient
after striking Off 176 names, which
cut it to 80 below the required major
ity OF the votes cast for governor at
the last general election.
The herd law people presented their
petition as soon as they had a major
ity, but the commissioners ruled that
the names appearing upon the petition
must be names on the poll lists, and
new residents whose names had not
yet been placed upon the poll lists
were cut off. BY this action the num-
Der was barely reduced below the re-
quired figure, and no action was
taken.
This action on the part of the COM
m~issioners only has stirred the herd
law people to greater determination
to get a vote before the next crop year,
and they again are securing the coun-
try with petitions. They say that when
they again go to the county commits
sioners it will be with a petition which
cannot be cut down to a point where
it can be thrown out on a technically.
They do not propose to have their
crops destroyed by cattle another year
IL there is any way to prevent il.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
ENEMIES WRECKED TRAINS.
Line Is Victim of Murderous
Vandais.

Secret enemies who, In seeking TO
hamper the operations Of the road,
have already caused two fatal wrecks,
in each of which one life was lost,
and cost thousands Of dollars in dam
age, is the sensational statement of
one of the officials of the Missouri &
Northwestern railroad running be-
tween Rapid City and Mystic, made
at the end of a lengthy investigation.
The operation of these persons who.
it is said, are suspected. but still un-
known, have bafied the roads au-
thorities, so cleverly was the work
done, but expert detectives who now
are on the case, expect to unravel the
mystery.
Certain little p%eculiarities In the
wrecking of two of the company's
trains during the last few weeks
caused the officials to suspect that
some one was purposely trying to
harm them. Then it is said it was
discovered that the last wreck. caused
by the burning Of a bridge, was the
direct result of the work OF an incen'
diary. This was followed a few days
later by the burning of a locomotive
left on the tracks over night, after its
machinery had been, deliberately
broken n twisted out OF shape. Still
later the gasoline motor was visited
during the night and left a mass of
ashes.
Spikes have been lifted from rails;
switches turned as though by acci-
dent, and one by one the incidents of
the last few weeks are being shown
the work of spite or a maniac. The
Crouch line, as the railroad is known,
has been operating less than a year,
and has operated its thirty-nine miles
of track under a constant hoodoo. 1t
is controlled principally by capitalists
in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
GETS LIGHT FRANCHISE.
Local Electric Company Secures Grant
From Mitchell.

Local Electric Company Secures Grant
From Mitchell.
Mitchells city council granted a now
electric franchise to a local company
for the period OF twenty years. A year
ago G. G. King, who was then the
owner of the Mitchell Gas company,
ytarted a movement to renew the fran
chise at a lower rate. and afght was
made. Later King had trouble with
his bank at Scotland, which failed, and
be was sent to the penltentiary. The
new company Of Mitchell men, who
expect to buy the property OF the
Mitchell Gas company or erect a new
plant, has offered a large reduction
In rates, the maximum being 10 cents
per thousand watts, which Is made
lower still by a larger use OF electricity.
Two gas franchises also have been
placed on their first reading. Both
make a lower rate for gas than now Is
furnished in this city. The rate OF
one is SLIPS and the other $3.50 per
thousand cubic feet. IL both are
passed Mitchell win have three gas
companies.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19

Schoolmasters OF the Black Hills
met at Deadwood in annual session
and wound up with a banquet. The
principal question was the matter Of
afiliation with the state school sys-
tenn, and IL was decided to seek afilia-
ton, but to maintain their separate
organization and to send a delegation
to the state meeting Mt Waterfowl
his month The Batavia system as
It a been applied In the schools Of
the Black HiIls was freely discussed
n criticised r. /. Geek president
OF the state normal school at SpeaE-
ash, rse$1s1 u the meeting.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
PREY UPON The FARMER.
Peddlers Gain the Confidence OF Soil
TilIer, and Then "Work" Him.

Peddlers Gain the Confidence Of Soil
Tiller, and Then "Work" Him.
The financial panic in the East sent
the "yeggmen" to the West to prey
upon the smaller banks of the country,
for 1t was rightfully supposed that
they would carry a large amount OF
money. Along with the "yeggmen"
came another class who saw a way in
which to prey upon he farmers. This
was a dishonest class of grocery ped
dlers who have been working in the
counties in the Mitchell district with
more or less success. These grocery
peddlers are not connected with any
reliable house, but take the RESPONSE
bility upon themselves. They reached
the conclusions hat if any class of
people would take their money from
the banks and hoard it at home, it
would be the farmer. and so the gro
Gerry peddler has started through the
country with a cheap proposition to
sell groceries.
The plan of the peddler, as 1t has
been successfully worked, is to call
On the ldTlutI anu ldhc Il sinai oIuSi
at first, asking merely for a dollar in
cash to help pay his travelling ex-
penses. In the course of a week the
grocery order arrives, filed TO the let
ter, with everything that the order
contained and the goods OF a better
grade than was anticipated. II is the
policy to let the cheapness of the
goods and his seeming reliability soak
in for a week, when he returns for a
second order. And here is where the
swindle comes in. A farmer in an ad-
joining county was drawn into buying
a second order of the peddler, and as
the goods were cheap, he was induced
to invest about SIS in a grocery bill.
The peddler asked s25 cash on the
order, and as he proved perfectly hon
est in the first instance, the farmer
trusted to the honesty of the peddler
a second time, and that is where he
lost out. The peddler took the money,
assured the farmer that the groceries
would be sent soon, andsthen departed
to work his scheme on others, plenty
of whom he found.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
INCREASED GOLD SHIPMENTS.
Black Hills Sending Out More Bullion
Than Ever.

man EVER.
There Is at the present time more
gold being shipped out Of the Black
Hills than for many years past. Here
tofore the average monthly shipment
has been about $3.50, 900, including
the Homestake, but at the present
time the figure is nearer 81, zoe, 900
every thirty days, which will be ma
terially added to by the output of the
Gilt-Edge-Maid, Branch Mint and
Globe, whose first cleanups will be
made this month. BY Jan. 1 of the
coming year the output of the white
Hills will be over one million a
month, and when the Hills are COM
pleted this figure should be brought
to nearly n and ~one-quarter million.
Practically all Of this bullion is
shipped to Philadelphia through the
United States assay office here, but
has always been done so quietly that
it attracted no attention. An innova-
ton in this line has just been started
with the appearance of armed guards
who escort the bullion between the
assay and express Offices and then on
the train.
The Homestake Mining company
has practically adopted a new drill
that has been tested for the past two
weeks. 1t is an electric air drill,
Temple pattern, and an improvement
on the regulation IngersOll, as 1t fur
nishes its own compressed air. Dur
In gthe test the drill is said to have
accomplished considerably more work
in a day than any other drill company
has ever tried. BY reason Of having
its own motive power 1t can be read
fly moved from one point in the mine
to another.
The Branch Mint mill at Galena.
sixty stamps Of which were started
dropping ten days ago, is now In full
swing with its 120 stamps, and III an
other few days will make its first
cleanup. All the adjustments Incl
dent to the starting of a new mill
have been made, and the run from
now on is expected to be continuous.
The mill has a total capacity OF 500
tons daily, which will be worked up
10 gradually.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
A LAID TO v e
Murdered Woman 10 identified AZ
Katherine s. kiIIe.

Katherine 8. kiIie.
In the first reports of the murder
committed south of Fort Pierre there
was a tangling OF names, the correct
name OF the victim, according to her
final proof notice on her homestead
being Katherine 8. Kille and her for
mer home Luverne, MINI. The man
suspected of the crime Is II. A. Bowen.
While 1t was first stated hat the
woman was killed by having her head
crushed, the physicians examination
at the inquest showed that death was
caused by a pistol shot, the ball en-
tering her head just back OF the ear.
The coroners jury brought in a
finding In which they hold that Kath-
crime Kille came to her death from a
pistol shot wound from a pistol In the
hands OF Aurelius Bowen.
Bowen came to this part of the coun-
try from Smithland, Iowa. and was
holding a claim near that OF the young
woman who was killed. The coroner's
hearing was continued this evening.
with the attorneys for the defense
fighting every point.
While there Is nothing but suspicion
on which to hold Bowen, he refuses
to discuss the case on the advice Of
his attorneys. No revolver has been
found. but Bowen was arrested at a
point eve miles from where the
crime was committed. and IL he did
the shooting he had plenty of chance
to dispose OF the revolver. While that
Is lacking. 1t Is claimed that the state
Is In possession Of other evidence
which will show strongly against Bow
Ell at the proper time.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
INDIAN LADS RUN AWAY.
HomesIck Pine Ridge Boys Skip From
Fiandreau, but Are Caught.

HomesIck Pine Ridge Boys Skip From
Fiandreau, but Are Caught.
The Sioux Falls authorities have
transferred to the authorities OF the
government Indian school at Tiaz-
dream three Sioux Indian boys. who .
few days ago ran away from the
school and were captured In Sioux
Falls. After wandering around in the
vicinity OF Trent and Egan they finally
found their way to Sioux Falls and
were picked up here. The three boys.
whose names are John and Charles
Martene and Joe Comes Again, were
originally from the Pine Ridge reser-
walton In the extreme southwestern
part of the state. Becoming homesick
they decided to make their way ON
foot to the Pine Ridge reservation. =
distance of several hundred miles.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19

Bernard Prentice, a cowboy, is dead,
and Dick Moran, a cook who recently
came to Deadwood from Kansas City,
will probably die as the result of a
duel at Deadwood.
Two women, Bonny Fowler and
Belle Haskell, narrowly escaped being
shot, five shots being fired at them
during the fight. Prentice and Moran
are said to have quarreled about Miss
Fowler, and the duel was the result.
A dozen shots were exchanged. Prem.
tice was shot through the head and
died instantly. Moran received q bull.
Let wound in the breast.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
ALICE RANCH is "rENcE."

In the circuit court before Judge
Rice John Eihlec, a rancher living
north of Belle Fourche, Is on trial
charged with being part Of the sun
derground' system by which the no
torious Morgan gang of h~orsethieves,
most Of whom Fave just been sen
fenced tn the penitentiary. were en-
abled to spirit animals out of the
country. E1chlc- and the rustlers. ac-
cording to the prosecution. worked to-
gether, the rancher making his place
a fence" for al lstolen horses.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19

ules in about two weeks after all the
allotments are made.
This ought to be in ample time to
admit of the approval Of the allot-
ments and allow the president to is
sue his proclamation. to that the ac-
tual opening or fling can begin by the
middle of October or the first Of No
vember. 1908. This season will be the
best time to file on the lands, for the
homesteader will then have until
warm weather the following spring to
establish his actual residence"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19

The South Dakota Central railway
grade has been completed into Water
town. and the camps that have been
strung out from Watertown to Ar
lington for the last three months from
this place, but is advancing steadily,
and will reach Watertown in a couple
of weeks. They can keep at work
regardless of the weather. so that the
first train from Sioux Falls over the
new line doubtless will whistle into
Waterfowl on New Years day.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-19
FILINGS FALL OFF.
Pierre District Land Office Does Less
In November.

In November.
The business Of the land Office in
Pierre shows a falling off for Noyem.
Der from the earlier months of the
fall. About two townships were taken
up by 245 filings. Of which all but four
were homesteads, the four being SOL
der declaratories. Final title from
the government to the claimants was
passed drought 81 final proofs, Of
which IA were final five-year proofs
without payment, and the others COM
muted entries. by which the claimants
paid the government price for the
lauu aiLer Ivur.0on l4vn.ns ~resldence.
The contest business is heavy, and
any h~omesteader who does not keep
well within the department rulings Is
likely to be called upon to defend his
title at any time.