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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
INDIANS IN CHURCH WORK.
Interesting Facts from the Annual Re-
port OF Bishop Hare.


The annual report Of the mission
ary district of the Episcopal church
of South Dakota has just been issued
| in pamphlet form, under the direction
of Bishop Hare and Rev. A. w. Bell
the secretary. The district is divided
into three deaneries-the Niobrara,
comprised of the Indian agencies, the
eastern and the Black Hills. The
work among the Indian agencies Is
one of the large interests of Bishop
Hare and Assistant Bishop Johnson,
and it is surprising indeed what has
been accomplished in religious way
among the Indians and the determine
ton with which they pursue religion
when converted. They are close OBJ
servers on church services, and in
their financial obligations to the
church are fidelity itself. There are
II churches and chapels among the
Indian agencies, each of which is pre-
sided over by an Indian rector or
preacher and they are very devout and
conscientious in all of their ministra-
lions of the church's rites. At the
present time there are 1870 confirmed
Indians, and during the past year 661
COIlIlEHldllOIS
of those Indian ministers. Repre-
scented among the Indian churches
there are 2,571 families, with popu-
lation of IL ,840, 10,162 of whom have
been baptized OF the 1870 who have
been confirmed but 916 were absent
from communion during the year, and
over so per cent attend the services
every Sunday of the year. The In
dams have been giving of their money
quite literally during all the years
that they have been under religious
domination. They make good contri-
buttons TO the bishops salary, to the
convocation fund, to the nativce cler-
gy fund, to communion aims, to do
cesar missions, to foreign missions,
to domestic missions, for education
for the ministry. In churches and
grounds the Indians have invested
$61,6f6; in rectory property, $19,120;
in other property, $16,S10. Two
boarding schools are maintained in
the Indian deanery, at st. Mary's on
Pine Ridge mission and at st. Eliza
beth's on the Standing Rock mission.
At the latter place Miss Mary Francis
has devoted twenty-one years to in
structing the Indian girls, and was
forced last spring to give up her
work on account of her health.
The Eastern and Black Hills dean
cry show a good condition. showing
2,453 communicates among the white
people. They have raised $14,4O9.Se
for ministers salaries and $56765 for
communion aims with liberal contfi-
buttons toward the various funds of
the church. The Episcopalians have
$2O9,161.63 invested in churches and
grounds; $47,250 in rectories, and
$112,005 in other property
Bishop Hare has been associated IN
the work among both the whites and
the Indians in this state and Nebraska
for a great many years, and he has
built up very strong organization,
whose supporters admire him for his
great worth. During the past year
the bishop has been in poor health
and has had to lay aside some of his
work, which is looked after in capa-
BILE manner by the assistant bishop.
Frederick Foote Johnson.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
MAIL POUCHES ROBBED.
Many Letters MutiIated on Way to
RlaclS Hills 4.4s 3

When and where some mail train in
the west was robbed of letters on
their way to the Black Hills is a ques-
ton that Lead merchants would like
to have answered. For the past few
days the merchants and banks have
been receiving badly mutilated mail,
in some cases the contents being part
ly missing. On each letter there was
plainly stamped the words, ""Mutilated
by pouch robbers" but as the letters
came from the office of the chief
clerk of the postal service at Omaha
and no other Information was vouch-
safed the robbery is something of q
mystery. The local banks mail in
Guided some of these letters, but the
checks, which were not negotiable,
were still in the envelopes, only money,
apparently being taken by the robbers.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
HoMESTAKE VETERANS.
Gid Employees of Famous Mine Elect
Officers

An event of Importance among the,
1000 miners in the employ of the
Homestake Mining company at Lead
was the annual meeting of the Home
stake Veterans association just held.
The organization, now two years OF,
is composed of many men who hhve
grown gray in the service of the big
company and whose loyalty has never
faItered Most of them own their
homes in Lead, and all are old timers.
The annual report of the secretary,
Robert Fraser, showed that during
the year membership had been trebled
until it now reaches 1i5 men, whose
object is good fellowship among
themselves and promoting efficiency
in the service of the company. The
old officers were reelected. as follows:
President. Richard Blackstone: vice
president. James McCracken; secre-
tary-treasurer. Robert Fraser; trus-
tees, T. j. Grier and John a. Spargo.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
FISH IN WAR PAINT.
Harahan Head Narrowly Escapes An
other Punch,


A warm verbal encounter took place
at the annual meeting in Chicago Fri
day OF the Illinois Central railroad be-
tween President Harahan and Stuve-
SAINT Fish. In the end the latter Sc
cured his object and the meeting adj
1ourned in the manner In which Mr..
Fish desired and In accordance with
the order of Judge Ball until March
2, 1908.
1t was understood that when the
meeting was called to order that the
only matter to be called before it was
the adjournment until March 2. Mr.
Fish, however desired it to appear
on the record that the adjournment
was taken for the purpose of awaiting
the decision Of Judge Ball on the right
OF the Union Pacific and the Rail-
roads Securities company to vote the
stock now standing in their names
and which were temporarily enjoined
prior to the meeting in October. He
therefore introduced a resolution
worded as follows:
Whereas, By an order entered on
Dec. 10, 1907, in the case of George f.
Edmunds ct al. versus the Illinois
Central Railroad company ct al. in the
superior court of Cook county it was
or&ered and decided that the present
adjourned meeting of the stockholders
for the year 1907 should be further
adjourned until Monday, March 2,
1908, at IL o'clock noon to await the
decision of the court on the right of
certain stockholders to vote at said
meeting.
Resolved. That this meetine do
now adjourn until Monday, March 2.
at IL o'clock noon"
The argument in the hearing before
Judge Ball was continued Friday,
Judge Farrar, continuing all day with
his argument A decision is not now
expected before the latter part of Feb
ruary, 1908.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
SWINDLED RICH RUSSIANS.
st. Petersburg Woman, Who Was on
Trial, Jumped Bail and Fled.

Ciga Stein, Russian woman, who
has successfully conducted series of
swindles in st. Petersburg on a large
scale, has fled. She was being tried
on charges of fraud and swindling,
and she jumped her bail when she saw
the trial going aginst her. She was
charged with having defrauded certain
persons of 100000, and her opera
tons extended over a long period.
Mrs. Stein moved in high social cir
cles, and was reppted to be million
aire. She obtained large loans on the
strength of pretended French inner
itance. The heavy losers by her OPP
erations are silent because of the fear
of ridicule.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
MINE A DEATH TRAP.
More Than 200 Men Killed in Pcnnsyl-
yania Shaft.


An explosion OF gas in the Darr
mine of the Pittsburg Coal company.
located at Jacobs Creek, Pa. Thurs.
day entombed between 200 and ESQ
miners, and there is scarcely a ray Of
hope that a single one of them will
be taken from the mine alive. Par
italy wrecked buildings in the vicin-
ity of the mine and the condition ef
the few bodies found early in the res
cue work indicate that it seems inn
possible that anyone could have sur
vived it. All Of the thirteen bodies
taken out are terribly mutilated, and
three of them are headless.
This is the third mine disaster since
the first of the month in the veins of
the bitumfnous coal underlying west
ern Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
for the Naomi mine near Fayette City
and the two mines at Monongah, w.
Va, in which the earlier explosions
happened, are in the same belt as the
local workings Thursdays catastro-
phe swells the number of victims of
deadly mine gas for the nineteen days
to between $50 and co.,
That Thursdays disaster does not
surpass in loss of life and attendant
horrors the one in West Virginia is
due to the devotion to church duties
of considerable number Of miners
In observance of the church festival
many of the 400 or more men regu-
larry employed at the mine did not
go to work Thursday morning. Those
who escaped through this reason are
members of the Greek Catholic
church, and they suspended work to
celebrate ST Nicholas day.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
ENDS HIS TOUR.
Secretary Taft Finishes Long Journey
Friday.


Secretary of War Taft arrived in
New York Friday on the steamer
President Grant, after a journey
around the world. The secretary said
he was not prepared to talk on any
public questions.
Secretary Taft left for Washington
at lila on the Pennsylvania railroad.
Taft was met at Jersey City by q
party of newspaper men. Referring to
the departure of the Pacific fleet, the
secretary said that this subject had
not been discussed by the japanese
emperor and himself, but the feeling
In that nation was that the manuever
was merely test of the efficiency of
the navy and was not to be construed
as anything even remotely akin to an
unfriendly measure,
"The Japanese people are strongly
In favor of peace" he went on. 81
can speak with emphasis on this mat
ter. Nothing but peace is to be ex-
pected. The trade relations between
the two nations is strong factor for
pacification. OF Japan's yearly exports
of $160,000,00O over third comes
to the United States, and this Grade
means livelihood to great number
OF small traders on the island. This,
II nothing else, would make the body
of the nation oppose any act of hos
tility".
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
WRECK FOLLOWS WRECK.
Fast Pennsylvania Passenger Train
Runs Into Derailed Freight Cars.

Fast Pennsylvania Passenger Train
Runs Into Derailed Freight Cars.
Four persons We're injured, heavy
property loss was sustained and three
tracks Of the Pennsylvania railroad
were blocked for the night by two
wrecks near Bolivar, Pa. Sunday
night. An extra freight train left the
rails Of track No. because Of brok-
en- rail, 1t is believed, and twenty cars
were piled up over the tracks two and
three deep immediately after the
accident to the freight the Chicago
mail, running at high speed to make
UP lost time. plowec into the debris
with terrific force. Everyone on the
train was badly jolted and shaken up.
many Of the passengers being thrown
from their seats. None Of the pas
senger cars left the track. but num-
Der OF windows were broken and sew
eral persons were cut hy flying glass
One mail clerk was severely bruised
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
SLAUGHTER IN MINES.
Appalling Death Roll in the United
States

Appalling Death Kohl in the United
States.
The Coal mines of the United States
are killing three times as many men
per 1000 employees as those of most
European countries In the last sew
enteen years 22,S40 men have given
up their lives in the mines of this
country. AS many violent deaths have
occurred in the mines during the last
SIX years as during the preceding elev-
on years. The number Of fatal acct
dents each year is now double that
OF the year 1895. In 1906 1851 men
were killed or injured in the mines,
the dead numbering 2,061 and the in
jured 4,800.
These terrible facts have been
CLEANED by government experts acting
under orders of Secretary Garfield. of
the interior department, 10 investigate
the nature and extent of mine acct
dents, particularly those resulting
from explosions, and to make sugges-
lions as to how mining conditions may
be improved and accidents prevented.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
FINAL CROP ESTIMATE.
Federal Bureau Puts This Years Corn
Yield mt 2.53c, 800, 900 Bushels.

The department of agriculture has
issued report giving final estimates
of acreage, production and value Of
farm crops, showing winter wheat
acreage to be 2S.132,0O0; production.
409, $4,000 bushels; value, per bushel,
1872 cents. Spring wheat acreage,
1908. 900; production, 224 $4,000
bushels; value, per bushel, Sc cents.
Corn acreage, 99,931. 900; produc-
ton, 2,592,32o.oO bushels; value, per
bushel. 51.7.
Oats acreage. 31.ss7,0OO; produc-
ton, 754.44s,oO0 bushels; value. per
bushel, 44.3 cents.
The average weight per bushel is
shown by reports received by the de-
partment to be 500 pounds for sphing
wheat. $50 pounds for winter wheat.
and 29.4 pounds for oats.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
HoPELEssLY WRECKED.
Failed Colorado Banks Will Not Be
Able to Resume.

Able to Resume.
Neither the Colorado State Bank,
of Durango, and its branch bank at
Pagosa Springs, nor the Shelter City
State bank, also at Durango. both Of
which closed their doors week before
last, will be able to reorganize and re-
open according to III. M. Beatty, state
bank commissioner, after placing the
institutions In the hands Of receivers
to wind up their affairs.
The liabilities OF the Colorado State
and its Pagosa branch are $4,000,
which do not include capital stock
of $4,000, The assets have face
value Of s450,OO0, but are of such
character as to fall very short Of
meeting the Indebtedness.
The liabilities of the Smelter City
state are s142.00O; assets, $172,00O
capital stock, $4,000. The assets are
also OF such character as not to meet
the indebtedness Of the institution.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
FOR ARTESIAN WELLS.
Aurora County Wants Money from the
Governments.


Residents of Aurora cornty have
taken up the matter of petitioning
congress for an appropriation for the
sinking of one or more large artesian
wells on the shores of Fish lake. a
body of water situated in Aurora
county. Preliminary to asking con-
gress for such an appropriation. the
legislature ceeded the tract of land
upon which the lake is situated to the
United States government. The pur-
pose of sinking the artesian wells will
be to raise the stage of water in the
lake, aSnow is being done by the gov
eminent at Lake Andes. in Charles
Mix county. The raising of the stage
of water in Fish Lake by the flows,
from one or more large government
artesian wells would make the lake a
popular resort, especially for fishing
and duck and goose shooting in sea-
son
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
SUES SCIENCE HEALER.
Black Hills Woman Claims Guaranteed
Cure Failed to Naterialize.

Whether or not a Christian Science
healer any more than a regular ply
stefan can be made to refund money
paid her for a guaranteed cure which
did not materlalize may be decided in
Justice Early's court at Deadwood
next month. Mrs. Lillian Arnott, of
Whitewood. IS the plaintiff in the suit,
and Mrs. Martha a. Barker, pro-
fessed Scientist. Is the defendant. Mrs.
Arnott asks the return of $50 which
she alleges she paid to the healer un-
der contract to cure here. Mrs. Ar
MOTT admits that she visited many 9TH
er physicians before resorting to Sci
ence but alleges that she was given
a positive ascertain Of cure If she
would take the treatment which she
claims did not benefit her.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
The News d. South Dakota
PART OF Loss TO BANK.
III Funds Taken by Canoya Robbers
Not Covered by Insurance.

Not Covered by Insurance.
1t is stated on apparently good au-
thority that through technicality the
Peoples state bank, of Canova will
,cse the sum of $1,000 as the result Of
the raid made upon it for a few weeks
ago by five expert cracksmen, who,
after a series of sensational incidents
succeeded in making their escape with
over $4,000, which they secured from
the safe which they wrecked with no
troglycerin. 1t appears that while the
banks loss was fully covered by in
surance, there was clause in the
policy exempting the insurance COM
pany from the loss of any money
which was not locked up inside the
money chest inside the safe. At the
time Of the robbery the sum Of $1,000.
was locked in the safe outside of the
money chest. This formed a part Of
the cash taken by the yeggmen, and
this sum the insurance company now
refuses to make good under the clause.
referred to- Had the money been in
the chest it would have been stolen
just the same. but this appears to
make no difference to the insurance
company. 1t is stated that a similar
clause clause is in all burglar insur-
ance policies covering cash in banks,
and as the result of the experience
of the Canova bankers other bankers
should be very careful to comply with
this clause of their policies in future.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
HEN HAD BROKEN LEG.
Inquiry Resulted in the Capture OF a
Thief

Through the medium of hen with
a broken leg the states attorney of
Codlngton county has run down a
chicken thief who has given his neigh
bors considerable trouble for some
time past. The outcome was the con-
viction in police court of Peter Schaak,
at WATERFOWL, young married farm
er, who paid $50 fine for lis petty
depredations. During the trial the
state produced an old hen that wore
big bandage on one of its legs. This
hen, one of the witnesses swore, had
been her property. The deputy sher-
if found the hen in the defendants
possession a day after a big bunch
of poultry disappeared from a farm
home near the Schaak place. The hen
with the broken leg was the sole
means of Identifying the stolen prop
erty
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
Ambassador Rein Returns.

Whitelaw Reid. the American am
bassador to Great Britain, arrived in
New York Friday on the steamer
Mauretania. The Mauretania made the
passage from Queenstown in days
and SIS minutes. Her average speed
was % knots.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28

Privates Dugan and Grange, OF the
sixth caya,ry, two general prisorfers,
sawed the bars out of the back Of til J
guard house at Fort Meade and dis
appeared. Grange was caught by the
Chief Of Police near sturgis. Dugan
10 stiil at large.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
Funeral oil Klnr lflscnr.

The body of the late King Oscar.
who died on Dec. 5. was inferred at
noon Thursday In the Riddarholm
church at Stockholm, the burial place
OF Swedish kings and heroes. with sim
pie cererEvry, rrss ssn pressiveness Of
which was accentuated by the wide.
snread evidences OF popular sorrow.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28

TRIES TO STEAL 100000.
Bold Attempt Made to Rob Express
Gar

Car.
Charged with making daring at
tempt TO rob a car on the Buffalo ex-
press containing 100000 in gold bull
ion while the train was standing in
the Reading, Pa, terminal, VIM A..
Hewett, of New York, was held in
heavy bail for further hearing.
A yardman while at work discov-
cred Hewett under the bullion car at
work with a saw on the gas pipe The
yardman give the alarm and Hewett
was caught.
The police say Hewett probable ex-
pected to enter the car after he had
extinguished the lights ap1 loot it un-
observed.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28

The deferred dividend of the De
Beers Consolidated Mines. limited, the
diamond mines, was passed Friday
owing to the unfavorable outlook in
the diamond trade. which was an out
come OF the restriction of purchases
In America since the financial disturb
ances.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
Must Remove DOES Carcass

The court Of appeals Thursday re-
versed the case OF Henry Hertie
against Alice Riddle ct al. OF Louis
Vile, KY. and the latter win be COM
PEELED to remove from a lot in Cave
Hill cemetery the body of dog buried
there several months ego. The Rid
die plot adjoins Herfie's.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
. Priest Has Large Parish.

Father Fox. the Catholic priest Of
Miller, has probably the largest par.
ish the extent OF any other clergy,
man in the state. 1t Includes Miller,
Rec Heights, Highmore, Harold and
nipor Places occasionally He is an
energetic young ma
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
Woman Hauls Grain so Miles.

A young widow, Mrs. Emma Thomp-
son, drove into Miller from thirty
miles southwest with a big load Of
flax that she sold on the market. Re-
turning home she started the next day
thirty miles west of her home to look
after another homestead that she
owns.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
For County Seat Election.

Lake Andes claims to have secured
the number of signatures of voters
necessary to call an election for re-
moving the county seat The local
committee has raised $4,000 to defray
the expenses of the campaign. and it
is believed an election will be called
soon.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28
Farmer Attacks Gin Teacher.

Miss Maud McCrumb of James
town. Pa, a school teacher, 23 years
old. is in a serious condition from an
attack alleged to have been made by
Charles Summers, a wealthy farmer.
Summers was captured and taken to
Creenville to prevent threatened vio-
lence.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28

MAI. Marley b. Curley. OF Atlanta,
Ga. paymaster of the department OF
the gulf, was Killed by being thrown
from an automobile while on his way
to the terminal station to catch train
for Macon.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28

AT q meeting Of the nut and boIs
manufacturers Of the United States
held al Fittsburg, It was decided to re-
affirm the prices which have ruled for
1907 Tor next year.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28

Unitei States Senator stephen r.
Mallory died at his home at Pensacola.
Fla. Sunday after q long illness.
causAd by general breakdown.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-28

saturdays quotations on the Sioux
CITY live stock market follow: Top
besves. $685.. Top hogs. si.4S- 4 ~ y
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-03-02
TOWNS THAT BOOST.

The board Of trade of Tucumcarl,
Quay county, N. NJ, has now fitted
up commodious Offices in the Israel
block in that hustling eastern New
Mexico town and a clerk is kept
there all the time to answer all
kinds and varieties Of questions.
All citizens of Quay county have
been asked to drop in when they
want information, and newcomers
and old residents alike will be made
to feel at home. The secretary OF
the organization shows that he has
the proper booster spirit when he
says The wants to see every far
mer in Quay county and ask him
about what he is doing on the
farm. Albuquerque Journal.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-03-02

What has become OF the propo-
sition to organize a band for this
city2 We are told that there are
II band men in town who will agree
to take hold of the matter if it
meets with the proper encourage
ment from business men and citi-
zens A little music on a summer
evening will help out. 1t will
put life into things and will be
worth the money. Think it over
and let's see what we can do.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-03-02

The most puerile thing the 37th leg
islative assembly has done or likely
will be guilty Of, was the expulsion
of a newspaper reporter from the
floor and galleries of the house.
This may lead some people to be-
lieve hat some of the charges he
made are true. A better way would
have been to pass the matter by
without notice.