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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
pEONAGE IN the SOUTH
Many Foreign Laborers Held
in Virtual Slavery.

Washington, Nov. 80. - Peonage
among colored people In the South
always has existed to a greater or
less extent and several prosecutions
have been instituted on that account
but it has remained for the Austro-
Hungarian and Italian governments
through the state department and de.
partment of Justice, to develop the
fact that many foreigners who have
been brought over to this country by
the representatives of the immigra.
ton agents are today white slaves
Others are in chain gang at this
minute, not for criminal offenses, but
for alleged debt.
The records of the state depart
ment, as well as those of the depart.
ment of justice, are filled with In
stances of this kind and complaints
have been investigated from Florida
Mississippi and several other states
Indictments have been found In two
or three instances and there may be
more to come, although extraordinary
influence is being used to hush the
matter up for fear that the tide OF
immigration will be turned away from
the Southern states.
One of Il e cases which is attract
ing much attention now, because 1t
has developed charges against wo-
man attorney In the department of
justice, grows out of the indictment
Of no less a person than o. B. Crit
tenden, head of the great plantation
known as Sunnyside, in Arkansas
This plantation employs fully 1000
men, practically all of whom are Ital-
ians, Spaniards and other Europeans.
The reports received from there are
to the effect that practically all these
men are under duress.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
CAPTURE CHINESE TRADE
Jap Steamship Companies Doing All
the Business.

San Francisco. Nov. 30.-That Ja-
pan is not only planning to outdis-
tance the United States in the strug-
gle for the commerce of the Pacific,
but has already driven the steamship
lines of every other nation out of the
Chinese trade. Is the statement of
Harry I. Paddock, United States con-
sui at Annoy, China. Mr.. Paddock
has arrived here on the Pacific Mail
steamer Korea on his way to Wash
ington.
THE Japanese have captured the
entire ocean carrying trade OF China
from Hongkong to Shanghai" he
said. 1.-THE British lines, which some
years ago monopolized this business,
are doing nothing. The same Is true
of the German lines. All have sue
cumbed to the competition of the
japanese, aided by their large SUBJ
sides and the low pay of their crews. :"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
Club for Widows and WIdowsrs.

Chicago, Nov 30.-Chicago widows
and widowers are to have a refuge
where they may meet in social dis
course and diversion to the Danish
ment of their lorn and lonely lot. II
will be known as the Widowed club
and be housed in a stone front resi-
dence on Forty-frst street. The only
requisites as membership will be
good character, references and the
ability to produce bona fide proof oi
widow or widowerhood.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA SATURDAY NOVEMBER 80 1907
HIGH PRICES IN GERMANY
Socialist Leader Declares Industrial
Crisis at Hand.

Berlin, Nov. 30.-The 1908 budget
was discussed in the reichstag. Herr
Bebel, the Socialist leader, made an
interesting address in which he called
attention to the condition of the coun-
try and declared this indicated that
crisis was at hand. He said the
unemployed in Berlin already number
between 10000 and 100000 Owing to
the industrial combines and the price
agreements the day of low prices in
Germany was passed and the high du-
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
DOG FIRES FATAL SHOT.
Son of North Dakota Editor Acci
dentaIly Killed.

Bismarck, N. D., Nov. 30.-Harry
the fourteen-year-old son of Editor C.
A. Patterson of Linton, died at the
hospital here as the result of acci
dental shooting.
He accompanied his father deer
hunting along the Missouri river
twenty-five miles south of here and
was left in an automobile. A loaded
shotgun was in the bottom of the auto
where the boy and dog were lying tc
keep warm. The dog stepped on the
trigger and the gun was discharged
the load taking effect In the left arm
of the boy.
The father heard the shot and re
turned to the auto to find his son in
a faint. A friend held the boy and
the auto was speeded to this city. but
the boy died from loss of blood and
shock.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
Chicago pioneer Dead.

Chicago, Nov 30.--Former Judge
James B. Bradwell, one of Chicago's
most distiL guished pioneers, is dead
at the residence of his daughter, Mrs.
F. A. Helmer, in this city. Judge
Bradwell was seventy-nine years old.
Until two weeks ago he had continued
to take an active interest in the man
agement of the Chicago Legal News,
of which he was publisher. He was 4
law partner of John l.. Beveridge
when Beveridge was elected governor
OF Illinois.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
ON THE VALUE OF BONDS
Expert Testimony introduced at the
Walsh Trial.

Chicago, Nov. 30.-Expert testimony
intended to show the methods en-
ployed by bond brokers to determine
bond values was introduced In the
trial of John r. Walsh in the federal
district court here. A. w. Harris,
vice president of N. w. Harris & Co.
and of the Harris Trust and Savings
bank, bankers and brokers, was a
witness. One of the charges brought
by the prosecution Is that Walsh in
building up his railroads and other
properties issued bonds to the extent
of millions of dollars when the COR
porations were earning little or moth
ing and that the bonds were either
sold to the Chicago National bank or
were used as security for the mem
orandum notes by means OF which
Walsh's alleged diversions of funds
are said to have been accomplished.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30

Davenport, Ia. Nov. 30-The body
Of Irwin Robinson Of Bluegrass. Ia. a
senior OF the Iowa State college at
Ames, was found beside the railroad
track. He disappeared after leaving
the college to spend the Thanksgiv-
ing vacation with his fiancee. Rather
Inc Carlin. who lives near Davenport.
and when he failed to- arrive search
was instituted orthim. Robinson EVIL
IDENTIFY had been. killed by jumping
from. from the train as y Dassedl'hs csr'in
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
FOUND OEAD IN nUTEL.
Minneapolis Millionaire Expires Sud.
denly at Omaha.

Omaha, Nov. 30.-George F. Porter,
millionaire attorney and theater man
of Minneapolis, was found dead In his
room at the Paxton hotel. Heart trou-
BILE, from which he had been suffering,
is asserted as the cause. He has a
wife and children travelling In the
South and they may be in Cuba by
this time. He was thirty-eight years
Of age. His body was, taken to Min.
neapolis by Edward B. Mast, connect
ed with Mr.. Porter's law firm. II
was Mr.. Mast who found him.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
Michigan Mayor Suicides.

Ypsilanti, Mich, Nov. 30.-Mayor
John Van Fossen shot himself through
the head at his home here. No hope
Is entertained for his recovery. Mayor
Van Fossen was fifty years old A
number of years ago he was an In.
mate Of an insane asylum for year
and of late 1t is said that he had been
fighting hard to ward off recurrence
Of his old trouble.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
Cannot Be Held on Suspicion.

Richmond, Va, Nov. 30.-The su.
preme court of appeals has decided
that a man could not be held by the
police as suspicious character; that
there must be specific charge
against him. The case grew out Of
the custom of arresting suspects and
OBTAINING them while working up the
case
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
EVIDENCE CONCLUDED
Both Sides Finish Testimony in
Case Against Mrs. Bradley.
INSANITY EXPERTS ON STAND
Witnesses for the Government Assert
That the Defendant Was Sane and
Conscious Of Her Act at the Time
She Shot Senator Brown.


Washington, Nov. 30-Two govern
ment experts took the stand in the
trial of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley
charged with having shot and killed
former Senator Arthur M. Brown of
Utah in this city last Tsecember. They
were Edward M Brush of Baltimore
and DR.. Smith Ely Jelliffe of New
York They have both been attending
the trial during the last ten days and
have observed the defendant in court
daily Both experts gave positive tes-
timony to the effect that Mrs. Bradley
was sane when she shot Senator
Brown. They could find nothing in
her family history, her acts or her
physical or mental condition to sug-
gest that she was insane at that time
Rev. DR.. David H. Utter, Mrs. Brad
ley's pastor, who has been referred
to in the testimony as "the priest"
testified concerning conversations he
had With the defendant in Salt Lake
"hSAA olS wv hiLll tllCt DGLdtOI blOWu
would marry her If he faced a pistol,
but she did not say she would shoot
him; she spoke as If some one else
would force him to marry her.
Rev. David H. Utter, pastor of the
Unitarian church of Denver, formerly
of Salt Lake, who performed the mar
riage ceremony between Mr.. and
Mrs. Bradley, was the first witness of
the day. Dr. Utter testified that dur
ing a conversation with Mrs. Bradley
he expressed to her his belief that
Brown would not marry her. He
urged her to give UP her idea of
marrying Brown. She replied: when
it comes to a test and the gun is
pointed at him Brown will accede."
Converses With Mrs. Bradley.
After leaving the stand DIR. Utter
took a seat beside Mrs. Bradley and
comforted her. They freely con-
versed, Mrs. Bradley often smiling at
something he said
DIR. Edward S. Brush of Baltimore,
a government expert, declared that in
his opinion when Mrs. Bradley shot
Brown she was perfectly sane.
DR.. Smith Ely Jelliffe of New York,
another government expert, was the
next witness called. District Attorney
Baker propounded long hypothetical
question to DR.. Jelliffe covering vari-
GUS threats alleged to have been made
by Mrs. Bradley towards Senator
Brown and her movements and acts
up to the time the shot was fired.
In answering the question Dr. Jel-
life said that at the time of the
shooting Of Senator Brown Mrs. Brad
ley, in his opinion, was sane Mrs.
Bradley, DR.. Jelliffe declared, was
able at the time she shot Brown to
choose between right and wrong and
was conscious of her act.
When the state rested its case the
defense called several witnesses. Mrs.
Henrietta Marshall, matron of the
District Jail, was not permitted to tes-
tify regarding Mrs. Bradley's physical
condition when she reached the jail.
Mrs. Bradley was then recalled and
declared that she had no recollec.
tion of the details of the conversation
with DR.. Utter as related by him.
This concluded the evidence in the
case
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
Taft,s Mother Failing.

Millbury. Mass, Nov. 30.--Mrs. Lou
lisa Taft. mother of the secretary OF
war, is failing every day, according
to a statement made by a member of
her household. Mrs. Taft has beer
Ill for many months and It Is said
that her Illness has taken serious
turn,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30
Powers Jury Completed.

Georgetown, KY, Nov. 30.--For the
first time perhaps In the history Of
this town the circuit court held a ses-
sion on Thanksgiving day. and the
jury to try Caleb Powers was CON-
pleted.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30

ties put In force in the month OF
March, 1906, also were making them
selves felt Consequently. Herr Bebel
declared, Germany was paying the
highest prices in the world. Holding
up loaf of bread, which caused pro-
longed merriment among the mem
bers, the Socialist leader said:
"They still say this is big loaf,
but a loaf that weighed four and a
half pounds eighteen months ago now
weighs scarcely three pounds and the
price has risen fully so per cent"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-11-30

This is worth Remembering.
As no one is immune, every person
should remember that Foley's Kidney
cure will cure any case kidney or blad
der that is not beyond the reach Of medi-
cine. Holiday & Por,er:
Yukon Valley news., 1907-01-23
Why Not :?

It is stated that the old timers from the Koyukuk who first landed in the Chandelar diggings staked only enough ground which they could work to ad- vantage. Later stampeders from Fair banks, it is said, staked everything in sight. If this is true, the old timers should have escorted some of the stam- peders over the divide. Why is it the miners of a new district will not take advantage of the liberal construction of the United States mining laws and make their own rules and regulations, and then enforce them? A lot of other new districts will be opened in Alaska and this is good thing for the miners to bear in mind.-Fbks. Northern Light.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-01-23
Vault Creek a Frost.

Northern Light, Jan. }. Vault creek has turned out to be q frost" There is no use in denying the fact any longer. The operators and laymen are leaving and moving their machinery to more promising creeks. A good many of the miners have lost faith in the creek and believe that nothing will ever be found worth while. In fact, they assert that the only pay found is in a marrow slit or gully in bedrock which formed natural catch basin for the gold which started the stampede. Enough holes have been punched to bedrock to find the pay streak. so the odds are against one ever being uncovered.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-01-23
CAPTAIN HEALEY
 IN A BIG SCHEME

Capt. John J. Healey arrived in Daw- son Dec i6 and tells the News that he has come to begin the work of the pre- liminary urvey of the Trans Alaska Siberia railway.
 The railway is projected to connect the eastern and western hemispheres by a line across Alaska, through tunnel under Boring strait and across Siberia to the imperial Russian Siberian road at Kansk. ''I am here to engage engineers and men for the preliminary work, and by next summer there may be dirt fly ing and rails coming this way" Captain Healy said to the Dawson paper. Al ready we have secured from the Russian government 6l 100000 million acres of land, carrying with it the surface and mineral rights. What the American government will do for us for crossing and opening Alaska remains to be seen."
Yukon Valley news., 1907-01-23

present time, like we ourselves look back and shake our heads at the history of the creation and of the flood.
 To return to those "uplifts." Their evidence, it seems, is to be taken as final. Mt. St. Elias and Mt Mckinley, and all the mountains of lesser and greater note that have not been formed by an outflow of lava (through process similar to that which forms the gla- ciers alluded to) have been raised from the lower levels by a system of boosting from unknown forces in the hidden depths-strangely like men are some
 times thrust up into exalted stations by unseen powers. It does not matter that w- are not told what it is that keeps the mountains from slipping back to their former level science has not got to that yet But the matter of the uplifted mountains is not so hard to swallow, after all. Learned philoso- phers tell us that even though the inte- ror of the earth be molten the pressure upon it makes it harder and denser than any known substance. That would account for the mountain not sinking just as water confined in tube would resist all kinds of pressure up to the breaking point of the tube. It is now being determined, however, that not only mountains, but vast land sys- tems and continents owe their existence to ''uplifts, which in the main are be- lieved to be gradual and to be going on all the time; that evidence can be found to bear out these facts in nearly every part of the world, and the history of the earth is being thoroughly established along these lines. 1 don't propose to set myself against science or pretend to understand such things at all; but if the earth is sphere of fixed density and of changeless or nearly changeless dimensions, with center toward which everything in it or upon it presses, when one part of its surface rises some other part must sink and if lava spews out from it's depths and forms d wart on the shell, which we name mountain, condition of noth- ingness is not likely to fill the place that the lava comes from. Likewise, if a gigantic uplift, say, takes place, sudden ly or gradually and continent rises out of the Pacific ocean, then the ocean will settle down in new place and be just as big as it ever was. Theoretically, at least, science can not get something for nothing. It can not raise up conti- nent without lowering something into the hole. And to be consistent, when it records and marks the boundary of some vast land that has come up out of the sea it ought to tell us something of the one that went down into the sea.
 Not to do so is to tell but half the story and discredit itself before those who will continue the inquiry in the future. HUB SYKES.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-01-23
Scientists
 Tell but Half
Future Investigators May Question Certain Conclusions Which Are Now Looked Upon as Final.

One of the puzzles passed up to us by modern science is of q geological nature and if anybody has even thought oi trying to solve it the fact remains unre- corded so far as the public is aware.
 In settling (to their own satisfaction certain problems with which their sci ence has been confronted, the geologists are ribbing up some posers for their successors questions, of course, that need not agitate presented investiga- tors, but which will rise up some time and call for answers.
 Scientists are going right ahead and establishing by modern facts and theo- retical evidence reaching back into the remotest past that the land areas of the world have been either spouted up by ebullient volcanoes, as have the isles of the Pacific, or raised by internal pres sure from the inner depths of the globe, as have the mountain peaks and ranges of the world. shortly before the Peace of Portsmouth did not Japan have added to her domain red-hot island from be- meath the sea? Did not, last summer, a granite mass rise triumphant and take its place among the Aleutian group off our own shores?
 \ scientist goes a-tield equipped to learn the history of the earth at first hand. He climbs mountain and finds remains of fishes and marine animals in the rocks. How did they get there? He knows they did not climb the noun tain: therefore some force must have lifted the bottom of the sea high into the air Pretty much all over the earth similar evidence is encountered and the fact is established that the mountains are 'uplifts" from the lower and weaker portions of the earth's crust. In con- siderable areas the hills and mountains are composed of material formerly in a molten state-lava that boiled out and 
 in the same fashion that water in places in the interior of Alaska forces itself to the surface, freezes, and continues to break through the crust and freeze until often before the winter has ended a large glacier--a miniature mountain of ice-has formed. In the case of the glaciers it does not take d very scientific mind to fathom the process: the water in seeking its level is obstructcd and the place of least resistance is overcome and when the summertime comes the ice which formed as fast as the water came in contact with the air mets and obeys the law of gravity and of course, gradually but inevitably, eyaporates and so as snow and rain eventually supplies material for more glaciers.
 We are quite ready to understand, too, that volcanic rocks wear away and the detritus has a tendency to seek lower levels. This granted. however, will not cxtrivatc coming generations from the doabt that may surround them as they look back upon the scientific work of the
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-02-05
IDAHO statute
IS SUSTAINED
Unlawful to (nnaze, Sheep
Within Two Miles,
Of Habitation.

WASHINGTON, D., c.. Feb g.
Owners Of sheep in, Idaho cannot let
them run within two miles OF a hu-
man, habitation, according TO- q de-
cisioni rendered in the supreme court
or the, United States yesterday. The
opinion was by Justice, McFesnna and
was handed down in the case Of
Ormshy & Brown VS.. Enoe Walling.
all Of Idaho.
The suit was instituted by Walling,
who complained that, contrary to the
state law compelling sheep herders to
keep their stock away from private
residences, Ormsby & Brown had al
lowed a herd Of 5000 owned by them
to come within the protected area
much to the injury Of the range. He
asked tor damages and the state
courts awarded them
Old Hard Fselfngs Recalled.
The case aroused recollections Of a
time when the feeling between, the
cattle and sheep. men was intense
When the trial was IN progress in
Idaho some apprehension was ex-
pressed that 1t might cause a reviva
Of the old time enmfties, and the mem.
bers Of the state supreme court Wit
prepared the courts opinion said ever
II his Judgment was favorable to tn,
sheep men, ne would pot take tn
chances on reopening th~, controvers,
by deciding IN their favor.
i Justice McKenna's opinion afYirmet
the state court lewiston. thus uphold
ing the eonstitutionality Of the Law
i sented.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-02-05
Notice for Publication.

Department Of the Interior, Land
Office at Lewiston, Idaho, January
2S. 1907.
Notice Is hereby given that William
M. Sweeney of Fairburn. Idaho. has
filed notice Of his intention to make
final five-year proof In support Of his
claim. viz: Homestead entry No. 1922
made December %, 1901, for the south.
east quarter Of Section IS. Township
"a NJ. Range 3 W. B. NJ, and that
said proof will be made before register
and receiver. at Lewiston. Idaho. ON
March s. 1907.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon.
and cultivation of. the land. Wis:
Willie e. Kern, William F. Brown
Steven D. Taylor. Austin D. Policy. all
Of Fairburn. idaho.
r. H. BARTLETT. Register.
Daily Jan. 20 to March s.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-02-05
ASSESSOR MUST
BEGIN EARLIER
Killpatrick's Bill Provides
for Much Better
Equalization

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 4.-Representa-
tive Killpack has introduced q bill in
the house that should meet the ap-
prevail Of tax payers all over the state.
It IL an amendment to the NV relat-
ing to revenues. It provides that as
sessing shall begin earlier than at
present, or at least so that all can be
done by the second Monday In June.
It provides that on or before the
second Monday in June. the assessor
shall mail to the assessed person, a
notice giving the kind and amount OF
all assessments charged against him
also Of the time set for the county
board Of equalization.
As this board Of equalization meets
early In July, the time heretofore sc,
for closing the assessment runs al
most up to the date Of the meeting
and there Is little time to look up the
assessment so as to be able to pro.
test.
The present law does not require
the sending Of notices at this time. SC
the tax payer has little chance tt
prepare his case for the board
This notice Is separate from tn,
provision that the notice Of tn,
amount of taxation shan be mailet
later in the year.