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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03

between capital and labor can be adjudi-
Gated.
The Importance of establishing good
relations between capital and labor" he
says, 'is recognized in all civilized lands.
Economic conditions within a country,
especially such as arise between indus
trial forces, have far reaching effect and
are often the cause of embarrassing inter-
national relations. More than one-half
of the troubles in this world arise from
MISUNDERSTANDING. Especially is that
true when classes are concerned, such as
are brought about through labor disturb
ances growing out OF d.saSreements be-
tween employers and wage earners. No
one has recognized the Importance of pro-
noting industrial peace, both with a view
of preserving continued peace at home
and avoiding conflicts abroad, better than
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03
! GETS A LIFE TERM.

chicago Jury Convicts Constantine
u of MufJePinE hrs. Gentry.
Frank j. Constantine was convicted
IN Chicago Saturday night Of murder
Ing Mrs. Arthur Gentry and his SEN
tence fixed. at Imprisonment for life.
Afte- battling for two and one-half
hours over the fate Of the prisoner the
Jury delivered finding Of guilty, and
fixed his punishment after the shortest
murder trial in the history of Cook
County.
Foreman KroSness said: '"There was
never any doubt about Constantine's
guilt, but owing to the circumstantial
evidence the penalty of life imprison-
ment was agreed upon by the jury"
The verdict, it is reported, was
keen disappointment to those in the
courtroom who had followed the course
Of the trial. They expected death
sentence. Constantine chewed gum and
said nothing when tie verdict was read.
Constantines story on the witness
stand was the most dramatic, the most
sensational narrative ever recited un-
der oath in Chicago. court. He
weaved story into manifestly weak
defense He swore he did not kill her.
He swore that he stood by while she
cut her own throat from ear to ear.
de swOre that she had confided to him
her unhappiness; that she had begged
him to take her away--to go abroad
with her; that he had refused; that
she slashed herself with razor He
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03
In Tracing

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search of
a1e. a for
hose n1ys-
5 created
in those
racing the
arS that d
ln1berg. Of
ed to that
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This dis
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nd friends
been foully
} establish
tended Wis
only in the
g morning
,lieVc& that
locate his
the belief
ngement is
J; action.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03
BIG CORN SHOW.
More than 10000 Entries for the
Exposition to BE Held i'm Chicago.

more thSn 10000 Entries for the
Exposition to BE Held in Chicago.
That there will be more than 10000
entries for the National Corn Exposition
which is to be held in the Coliseum at
Chicago, is the confident belief held by
the management, based on the hearty re-
Spouse that Aet the first appeal to the
farmers in the corn belt Within a few
days after sending out the list of the
clasSilications for the entry of corn to
contest for the $4,000 cash prizes and
the $4,000 in special premiums offered,
application for 1900 entries were made.
Quite apart from the educational end of
the exposition, it will be especially strong
in attractive show features. While the
most striking of these doubtless will be
the lavish decorative scheme which has
been completed at an expenditure of $780,
600, a number of specialties have been
arranged.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03

strike, but he ex-
presses h i m 5 e If
plainly as not re-
garding compulsory
arbitration as the
solution of difficult
ties between capital
and labor. He be-
lyieves that differ
ent cases require
different remedies,
and that there is
no hard and fast
rule by which diff
ferenceS that arise
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03

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1O66-Norwegians defeated the English
at Fulford.
119S-Richard l. defeated the French
at the battle of Gisors.
1327-Edward III. of England murdered
in Berkeley Castle.
1356-English defeated the French at
the battle of Poiticrs.
1415-Owen Glendower. the Welsh pat
riot, died at Monnngton.
162S-John Endicott's colony arrived at
Salem, Mass.
1630-Boston, formerly Trimountain,
Mass, named.
1653-New England colonists declared
war against the Niantick Indians,
1G65-The great plague of London
reached its height.
1675-Bloody Brook massacre at Deer
field, Mass,
1607-King Williams war ended by the
treaty of Ryswick.
1I10-Expedition against the French
sailed from Boston for Port Royal.
1714-George |. landed in England.
1745---Battle of Prestonpans between
the Royal troops and the Jacobites.
1747-Marquis de Beauharnais ended his
twenty-one year term as governor
of Canada.
1IJ9-Quebec capitulated to the British.
1762-St. Johns, Newfoundland, retaken
from the French by the British.
1176-The first Trinity church, New
York, destroyed by fire. Built in
1893.
177T-Continental Congress left Phila-
delphia on the approach of the Brit
ish. British victorious at battle
of Saratoga. British defeated the
Americans at Paoli, Pa.
1792-Meeting of the first Parliament of
upper Canada.
1793-George Washington laid the cor
ner stone of the national capitol at
Washington.
1S01--Robert Emmett, Irish patriot,
hanged for treason.
1S21-Central American States declared
their independence.
1S23-Samuel L. Southard of New Jer-
sey became Secretary of the Navy.
1S3S-Opening of the London and Bir-
mingham railway. .Anti-Corn Law
League formed at Manchester, Eng
land.
1S41-Railway opened between London
and Brighton.
1S47-Shakspeare's house, Stratford-on-
Avon, bought for the British nation.
1SjO-Presidept Fillmore signed the
fugitive slave law.
1S54-Allies defeated the Russians at
the battle of Alma.
1So6-The last national convention Of
the Wings met at Baltimore.
1S57-Massacre at Mountain Meadow,
Utah. Delhi captured by the Brit
1S6O-The American tour of the Prince
of Wales began at Detroit.
1S61-New Orleans banks suspended
specie payment.
1S62-Battle of Antietam ended.
1SG3-Gen. Bragg began the siege of
Chattanooga. First day of the bat
1SG4-Gen. Sheridan victorious at bat
tie of Winchester. Gen. Fremont
withdrew as a candidate for Presi-
dent.
1S6S-Revolution in Spain commenced.
1S70-The Germans invested Paris.
1S71-Lincoln's body removed to its final
resting place at Springfield, Ill.
1S73-Financial panic precipitated by
the suspension of Jay Cook & Co.
1Ss1-Chester A. Arthur took the oath
as successor to President Garfield.
1S91-The st. Clair tunnel under the
Detroit river opened to traffic.
1s94-Chinese defeated with heavy loss
at battle Of Ping Yang, Korea.
1S95-Peary Arctic relief expedition left
st. Johns, N. f., on return home.
1S9S-Spanish forces began the evacua-
tion of Porto Rico. French min
lister of war ordered the prosecution
of Col. Picquart, in connection with
the Dreyfus case.
lS99-Anti-trust conference at Chicago
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03

President Roosevelt, who devoted the
worlds peace prize awarded him last year
for the promotion of industrial peace
Secretary Straus believes the trouble
between Japan and America on the Pa
cifc to be more economic than racial He
says that what might be called Japan
ese situation does not exist.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03
All Around the Globe.

Theatrical combine of S1OO,OO0,OO0
capital formed.
The worlds population is estimated at
4S0,O00,O0O persons.
The decline of the tea trade is viewed
with alarm in China.
Ten million people have opened &C
counts with the postofice savings banks
Of England.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03
!, AWAY.
ding from

ding from
kt on a side
living near
z from de-
Il lightning
had been
unning out
in starting
b hill on
heed. The
idly to the
the wagon
|ff the load,
ut the rack
hutes' delay
struction Of
buildings.
Iii!lS.
unding the
somewhat
ONE good
Eeral OF the
erienceS to
ars. but as
ned and are
still around
Pottery.
found on a
fyer an un-
b. The find
the stream
r. Ferguson
wi early in
like most of
by those In
hamentation
{ Night.
has issued a
n the cross
new bridge
? 5th of Gc-
Fht Is on ac-
coci pany'S
ge most cf
y until the
J, about the
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03
Thirty-Four balloon. I'm a Race.

A great international balloon race start
ed from Brussels, Belgium, Sept. Is,
thirty-four balloons participating. More
than 100000 persons assembled to wit
ness the start. The English Zephyr"
and the Swiss ''Cognac" made the best
records for distance, so far as known,
aliShting in France, $50 miles away.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03

bis.
I'm South
'er the
ennsclveS
Terms OF
p teach
/; county
| Hatch,
having
country
here she
lot draw
es Of the
Eenerally'
| |ondition.
ape than
e super
the new
trades ITO
I'd to be
shortageA
he thirdh
by the \
/ could,
raj quail
all right,
n the ed
le or two
| upnly of
new sys-
can only
and are
rule, re-
~ of the
'rking in
e August
mt OF the
erti.lcates
& serious
no see no
country
CASE.
king Own
guilty Of
building
grip and
ad been
be deter
trial Of a
c circuit
ue case iS
n who re-
iCkuCy, in
Il county.
|ngS were
Of the
RyNcat Of
, goI with
to the no.
nossession
we'd it to
discovered
the arrest
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03
LABOR TROUBLES.

What Secretary Straus Has 20 Say
on Importart subject.
Oscar s. Suaus, Secretary Of Com
merce and Labor has nothing to say con-
cerning the status of the telrSraphers'
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03
Candy md Alcohol.

DR.. A. c. Abbott, health commissions,
of Pennsylvania, has advanced the theory
that 1.-The appetite for alcohol and the ap
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-10-03
WAR VETERANS CELEBRATE.
Only $50 OF Gen. Scott's Mexican
War Soldiers Are Still Alive.

There are in the entire country just
$50 veterans of the Mexican war, and
these recently celebrated the sixtieth an.
niversary of the fall of the City of Mex
leo in San Francisco. On that occasion
the grizzled warriors recalled the TRACE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13

left the key under the hall mat near
our door. Before 1 ring off-TH tell
you I found your picture under her
pillow when I was fixing her bed this
morning. left the bed unfixed-and
she doesn't dream I saw it, So you
see why you are an idiot-good by!'
When Elizabeth heard the key in the
door half an hour later she spoke with
out turning her head.
You've tried nearly every brand of
patent medicine on the market, Frances
4 only hope this one will not be bitter
to take
so do - Jimy put chair in front
of her and sat down as calmly as IL he
minutes.
She started to rise from her chair, but
fell back from weakness.
you've come backr she said family.
1--WE come back to make you take the
doctors prescription" he said boldly,
thinking of the picture under the pillow
You need managing, Elizabeth-and
I'm going to see what I can do in that
line. You are going to start to Florida
tomorrow afternoon-and I'm going
with you to keep off the alligators and
things
But you can'ti" she gasped, her face
flushing her eyes fixed upon his In a
dazed fascination.
''I can do all manner of unexpected
things" he said, taking both her hands,
at 2 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon"
He looked at her triumphantly, felt
the nervous grip of her fingers, but
never relaxed his gaze.
The color wavered over her face and
finally covered the wanness that had
startled him when he first saw her.
'tJimmy-I wouldn't be the least bit
angry now if she commenced in
whisper, and Jimmy's intelligence was
entirely comprehensive.-(Co
1907, by C. H. Sutcliffe.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

[F"rom the Atchison Globe.l
We are all inclined to waste powder
when the enemy is net in sight.
You can't trust other people; and
you can't always trust yourself.
No man looks very dignified wheI
seated on a lunch counter stool.
The man who is standing up for you
soon gets tired and sits down.
While a man is watching his enc
mics, his friends get away with him
What a fool a man can make OF
himself when he tries his best to be
wise.
About the only satisfaction married
women have is that they are not old
maids.
one of the most difficult things in
the world is to learn to take a hint
readily.
ished and admired, but that kind of a
man isn't.
No novel is sufficiently interesting to
make the reader want it stretched over
two volumes.
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed farmer who referred to town men
as town dudes?"
1t is no fun to see a man make a
fool Of himself: it is too suggestive of
what we are all liable to do.
The wickedest thing in the. world is
a lot of people in the same town en-
gagged in knitting each other
One of tie effects Of higher civiliza-
ton is the increased amount of talk
required to start a fight.
There IS nothing in telling fortunes
by the use of playing cards, but for
tunes have been lost that way.
New shoes are never satisfactory to
a boy unless they squeak, while a girl
demands that they hurt a little.
AS rule, a man doesn't care much
for spiritualism, so long as he can keep
real live people interested in him.
People who believe anything, do not
know much. In these days, it is posi-
BILE 20 pick out and brand most of the
fool stories.
Children are never as devout as their
mother thinks they should be, but
Father seems to have worries enough
without this one.
A woman was lately abusing the
modern shiftless girls. When I was
10 years old,'' the woman said L had
whipped my stepmother."
There should be more written con-
tracts and fewer UNDERSTANDINGS.
Half the quarrels originate because
people do not understand agreements
alike.
When town mans old mare has
a colt that is threatened with speed.
he is not fit for much else until some
other horse owner takes the conceit
out of him.. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil
eye, and considereth not that poverty
But now the Jig's up and I'm in a
mighty bad way. I've lost my reputa-
ton. I've ruined my family, my health
Is shattered and I have not long to
live It's the old story of blood
money, and God knows as I'm telling
you this I wish I was back on the
bakery wagon
Such is the statement with which
Thomas Lonergan closed his confess
sion of graft before the San Francisco
grand jury. Three or four years ago
he was the driver of bakers delivery
wagon. He did not make very much
money, but it was honest money, and
it was enough to keep his wife and
family. even If they had to worry
along without many Inquiries.
Then he was picked up as a candi-
date for supervisor by Ruef and his
crowd, and was elected. He was one
of eighteen. most of whom also were
Ruef's men. Then came the tempta-
ton to graft. - He was offered large
sum of money to sell his vote He
knew that others did it.. He was poor
and it looked like easy money. He
fell. Having sold his vote once it was
easy to do it again and again. until it
became a regular thing. He, with the
others. got from $500 to $4,000 each
for their votes.
Lonergan accumulated a big for
tune, for driver of delivery wagon,
but it did him little good. year ago
the earthquake and the fire swept it
away. Then came exposure, and
Lonergan sums up the result in the
paragraph quoted above.
It's an old lesson that men seem to
have difficulty in learning. the same as
they do many other lessons. The dol
lar that is gained through dishonesty
and graft not only bIights the mind
and soul of the man who sells himself
for it; it not only brings disgrace to
usually fails to buy him any real good
in the long run. He may enjoy it for
a time but it will not last.
The same thing is often true of any
"easy' money, money gained through
speculation or in any other way where
il is not honestly earned and where
value Is not given for it. Easy come,
easy CO." is the rule. One usually
hears of the occasional successful
speculator-who may be successful
for a time-but the multitude of fall
ures Go not reveal themselves. The
dishonest dollar and the "easy'' dol
lar do the recipient little good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13
CHANCELLOR DAY.

1t might have been known that
President Roosevelt would displease
Chancellor Day If he insisted on hav-
ing Mr.. Hartman investigated. The
worthy chancellor classes himself
among the kindly critics of the
president, and he says:
THE presidents kindly critics be-
lieve that much of the evil is exagger-
ated and in distorted forms. 1t is in
cidental and not radical and pervasive.
There is not enough evil today that
threatens the common good to war
rant such a proportion of the admin
istration's attention and machinery of
investigation. 1t may be good politics.
It may be way to make a certain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.


Probably the most unnatural of
mothers is the incubator.
Even the diRnified man would rather
bend a little than go broke.
Distant relatives seldom attend the
funeral of man who dies poor.
1t is far easier to say you do just as
you please than it is to do it.
When a bachelor hatters girl she
is apt to mistake him for Cupid's ad-
vance agent.
A man never boasts that he doesn't
know the meaning of fear when his
wife IS present
You will always get the hearty .ap-
prevail of at least one person when you
please yourself.
1t isn't always a case Of "snakes''
when man sees things double. Per-
haps he's not a bachelor
It's an easy matter to induce the
world to laugh with you; all you have
to do is laugh at yourself.
Happiness Is merely the ability to
realize that things are seldom half as
bad as 1t is possible for them to be.
A married man never fully realizes
what he Is up against until after he
has met every one of his wife's rela-
lions.
The man who thinks he Is always
right does more harm than the one
who is willing to admit that he IL
sometimes in the wrong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13
George AIDES Turkey.

George AIDE on his last European
trip spent a good deal of his time in
the Amerika's smoking-room,- but, as
his wont is, he was very quiet. The
humorists of the smoking-room clus-
tered about Mr.. AIDE night after night.
They told him all their latest stories.
They did their best to shine before
the famous young man. One evening
toward the end of the voyage they
begged Mr.. AIDE to tell a story in his
turn.
1--WE. have done our best to amuse
YOU" said a western millionaire. 1--WE
have given you many a yarn that will
come useful when you get on your
next book. Now it's your turn. Fire
away"
Mr. AIDE pondered a moment. Then
he said:
81 can't tell you a story, gentlemen,
but I'll ask you a conundrum. What is
the difference between me and tur-
key?"
Everybody gave the conundrum up.
1.-THE difference between me and a
turkey said Mr.. AIDE, slowly, sis that
the turkey is not stuffed with chest
nuts until it is dead.''-Exchange
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13
THE THAW CASE.

! It is not improbable that a large
portion of the American public would
have freed Harry Thaw on the ground
of the unwritten law, and among that
class there is doubtless considerable
disappointment over the failure of the
! jury to acquft Thaw.
It is a good sign, however, that the
| jury kept strictly within the law. No
/ matter how much sympathy one
might have with the accused in this
particular case; no matter If his vic
tim was a despicable villain who mer-
tied extreme punishment, the law
should be supreme over mere senti-
ment. When courts and juries do not
themselves heed the law, justice is on
the danger line.
So it is encouraging to note that the
jury in the Thaw case considered the
evidence only in it's legal phase. AS
to whether Thaw was insane or not,
the division of the jury probably rep
resents the division of public senti-
ment The case made by the defense
gave ground for the belief that the ac-
cused man was suffering from mental
disease at the time he killed Stanford
White. At the same time it is a diff
hcult matter for many people of judi
cial minds to believe that the deed
could have been executed as it was
without sane mind to do 1t.
The very fact of the killing ought
to be a warning to the Stanford
Whites everywhere. That type of hu-
man hyena undoubtedly needed a Sc
we're lesson. Yet the deliberate kill
ing of a human being by another is
terrible act, and If Harry Thaw COM
mitted II in full possession of his
senses and realizing what he was do
ing, the safety of society in general
demands that he be punished.
1t is to be regretted that the jury
did not find it possible to agree. The
disagreement means another trial. en-
failing great expense. The public
probably will not have the same keen
interest in the case another time that
it has had in this first trial-now that
it understands the facts-except as to
the final outcome. The lesson of the
tragedy, multifold in its phases, has
been thoroughly impressed on the
American people, and the public could
really get along without repetition of
the trial. But when a mans life is at
stake, when Justice Is trying to find
the truth. no jury should be compelled
to agree upon a verdict to which its
members can not cheerfuliy subscribe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13
Ton Much Proof.

District Attorney Jerome, at a din
ner in New York, told story about
honesty.
There was a man. he said, ''who
applied for a position in a dry goods
house. His appearance wasn't pre-
possessing, and references were de-
manded. After some hesitation, he
gave the name of a driver in the firm S
employ This driver, he. thoughtj would
vouch for him.
"a clerk sought out the driver, and
asked him if the applicant was hon
est
&c 'Ronest2, the driver said. Why,
his honesty's been proved again and
again. To my certain knowledge he's
been arrested nine times for stealing,
and every time he was acquitted. -
Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13

kind OF fame. but 1t is poor states
manship.
IF q remedy of evils is wanted we
would suggest remedy for the greater
evil of agitation, exaggeration and dis
trust. which is threatening the business
of the country. Stop investigating and
shouting thief at every great form of
business. Restore the confidence of
the people. If there are evils to COR
rect, correct them without the bugles
and drums of investigating commits
sions.''
OF course. Every robbers every
swindler, every wrong-doer in the
country will talk the same way.
What's the use of stirring up a fuss
about crime? Why not quietly eradi-
cate it so that people will not know it
existed? Where can any good come
of hurting the feelings of a poor high
way robber by telling the world what
he has been doing and agitating the
people against him. It's liable to In
Jure the highway robber business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Suggestion for debate: Resolved,
That Hartman is more hated by the
American. people than Rockefeller.
TP. S.-This debate would probably
result in a draW.l
Perhaps you were anxious to hear
the verdict in the Thaw case, but YOU
were not nearly as anxious as Evelyn
was.
1t is asserted that a woman invented
the perfect kiss. That may be, but
this department hazards a guess that
some man helped.
Harry Thaw probably did not sus-
pect what good sort of a fellow he
is until he heard Delmas tell the jury
about it.
"
If this frost continues to threaten as
it has been doing for several nights,
it is liable to scare some amateur
gardeners into taking their gardens
into the kitchen at night.