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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
Bourbon News Customers Get the
Benefit.

The Chatfield & Woods Co., of Gin
cinnati, one of the largest paper houses
in the country, have sent out to their
customers the following notice:
lowing to the general advance IN al
most all grades of paper, we are COM
PEELED to withdraw all prices and will
take pleasure in naming new prices on
applica cion."
Several weeks since the Bourbon
News foresaw this advance in paper
stock and placed orders for sufficient
stock at the prices then prevailing to
last us for six months. Our customers
get the benefit of this. Besides giving
you lower prices, we also take pleasure
in again reminding you of the fact that
THE Bourbon News does the best
printing"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
STO0K, CROP, ETC.

Geo. w. Wilder sold Is, 600 pounds
of tobacco Saturday to the American
Tobacco Co. at II cents straight.
Mrs. j. H. Maston sold her farm
on Cane Ridge, containing so acres to
Jack Harrington, for $S5 per acre.
Dan Hurst, of near Millersburg.
sold his farm Of 100 acres, Wednesday,
to SiIas Cleaver for sos per acre.
Mormon Hudson. of Headquarters.
sold his az acre farm Friday to &c.
Graffin for $50 per acre.
j. C. Ellis, representing TIE
American Company, bought ten crops
of tobacco from Bourbon county far
mers, last week, aggregating l25,COl
pounds at from to IL cents.
w. B. Woodford sold to Wn
Cr.r,e. of MT. ctorlinr 40 head G.
cattle. average about /, 400 pounds, at
81 to 81 cents.
George Ellis sold in Cincinnati last
week % hogsheads of tobacco at from
Sc to $I4.50 per hundred.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
Biggest Tobacco Deal On Record
Held to Circuit Court:

Mrs. Nancy Shropshire, who was ar
rested Thursday in this city on the
charge of attempting to extort $500
each from G. r. Burberry and Jerry
Sullivan, of Centerville, this county
by means Of threatening letters, was
held to the grand jury Friday in the
sum of $4,000. AS Judge Denis Dun
don is brother-in-law of Sullivan,
he vacated the bench. and Justice
Fletcher Mann conducted the trial.
The bonds required were for the peace
warrants and were signed by several
of her relatives from Georgetown.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
The Opening Gun in Local Option
Fight.

The filing of petitions Saturday after
noon by both the local option and the
saloon men, was the first gun to be fir
ed in the campaign, which no doubt
will be one of the warm kind.
The advocates of local option, through
a delegation composed Of j. S. Wilson,
j. 7. Martin, George w. Clarke,
George W. Wilder and VIM. Myall, the
latter gentleman being spokesman,
fled a petition in the County Court
asking that an election for and within
the City of Paris be called for April
nth. The petition is styled George
w. Clarke and others, and contains the
names of 344 citizens, who declare they
are qualified voters in the city. 1t
reads as follows:
''We the undersigned legal voters of
and in the City of Paris, in Bourbon
county, Kentucky, being number in
excess of twenty-five per cent. of the
votes cast in said city at the last gene
raj election, and at the last city cleo
ton in said city, respectfully petition
the County Court of Bourbon County
to order poll to be opened in each of
the precincts in said City of Paris,
Kentucky, on the 18th day of April,
voters of said city on the proposition
whether spurious, vinOus, malt or other
intoxicating liquors shall be sold, bar
tered or loaned in said city of Paris,
Kentucky, and that this law and pro-
hut - shall apply to druggis S also.
We further petition for such Ord-rs and
proceedings upon the subject of spe ial
regis .raJlon as may be necessary and
proner
The Court will pass upon this petit
tiUn on Court Day, march 18th.
After the above petition was filed
the saloon men. through heir attOr-
ney, Mr.. ]. j. Williams. filed similar
petltIUn. The only difference in the
two petitions is that the latter does
not apply to druggists or ask for a
special registration. This petition is
signed by 3l3 legal voters.
There are petitions ready, SO we are
Informed, to be filed by both sides, and
the pubic is anxiously awaiting devel-
epments when the preliminary Skin.
miShing is over.
Biggest Tobacco Deal On Record
Tho largest deal in dark tobacco
within the last twenty-five years and
the second largest deal ever made In
the history OF the product, has just
been contaminated in Louisville. The
purchase involves 10,000, eco pounds,
which means between 6, 900 and 1000
hogsheads of the weed, ana the amount
of money involved is not less than
$3.50, 600 The purchase was made from
The Louisville Tobacco Warehouse
Company by Nat F. Dorch, for Mathews
q Sons, whose headquarters are in
Louisville, and who sold out some
years ago to what is now the American
Tobacco Company.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
Kentucky-JamestOwn Notes.,

Returns are expected from all coun-
ties by Feb. Is, showing the exact
amuont that has been subscribed to the
$4,000 fund sought by the Kentucky
Jamestown Exposition Commission. 1t
will be just seventy days from that
date before the opening of the EXPOSE
ton on April 26, and the Commission
has announced that it must hear from
each county by the middle of the
month. Much interest has been taken
in the canvass which started under the
name of "Kentucky-Jamestown week"
and it is belieS ed that a sufficient fund
has been subscribed to erect State
Building and make handsome display
of Kentucky's products and resources.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
Young Men Meet at the Capitol
CITY.

The Young Mems Christian Associa
tons of Kentucky will hold two con-
ventions this year, in place of the
State convention hitherto held annual
w. but now meeting biennially. The
Central and Eastern Kentucky Conven-
tion will meet at Frankfort, February
22-24, and the Western Kent cky con-
v9ntlon on April 1914, at jacksonville,
in connection with the opening of the
new $4,000 Association building at
that place.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
Notice. Farmers !

The members of the Bourbon county
Farmers Club are hereby notified to
meet at the court house Friday, Feb
ruary 18th, at o'clock p. M, TO send
delegates to the annual State Farmers
Institute which meets at Shelbyville,
FeD. 20. q and %.
THOS. HENRY CLAY, President.
A. S. THOMPSON, Secretary.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12

Clark county has exceeded the quota
>of S509.87 asked as its subscription for
the State fund. B. R. Jouett, Of Win
chester, is county chairman and the
sum which was collected by popular
subscription was turned over to the
Commission through Judge J. M. Ben
ton, a member of the Board. There
were over 100 subscribers to the fund
in Clark county.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
A Call Meeting.

The members of the Democratic
County Committee are requested to
meet at the court house in Paris, KY,
on Saturday, February 10th, at p.
M, for the purpose of setting a time
and manner of nominating candidates
for the Offices of County Clerk and
member of the Legislature.
]. H. THOMSPON,
Chairman County Committee.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
Thanks AwfuIly, Dan.

The Wocdford Sun says: 1.-The Bour-
bon News was twenty-seven years old
last Friday. The News gets better
every year. It's editor, Swift Champ,
Is one of the most capable and popular
newspaper men in the State"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12

Ballard county was the first to turn
into the State Commission it's entire
pro rata of $l57.93. Chas. Wickliffe is
vice-chairman of the Division of F.
nance for Ballard county. The Fiscal
Court of the county raised the entire
portion.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12

Mercer and Montgomery counties are
among those which have announced the
raising of their entire quotas w. w.
Stephenson is chairman of the Mercer
county committee and H. Clay Mckee
is in charge of the canvass in Mont
gOmery county
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
DIR. LandmaII.

DR.. Lardman, the oculist, will be at
the Windsor Hotel, on Tuesday, Feb.
18th. 5-3t
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
Floral Valentines

Place your orders early for Floral
Valentines with Bruce Holiday, agent
for Honaker. st
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12
chickens and Eggs Wanted.

We want your chickens. butter ant
eggs. <
11-2t c. p. COOK & co.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-12

E. F. Spears & Sons Red Cross
Flour has no equal. Try sack and be
convinced. 8-tf
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-01
GETS SIOUX COLLECTION.
Historical Society Receives Gift OF
Indian Relics.

The State Historical society, ever
since its organization, has been COL
lecting relics of the Sioux and earlier
Indian inhabitants of South Dakota.
This has been largely increased by the
presentation by DR.. De Lorme w. Rob-
inson of his entire museum of Sioux
Indian trophies which he has been
years in collecting at a heavy expense
in cash and time. The collection con-
sists of clothing and ornaments, pipes,
games, implements, pottery and relics
OF the stone age. This collection will
be preserved in the museum of the
society as the de Lorme w. Robinson
Indian museum" and to this will be
added the specimens already owned
by the society and received from
other sources. DR.. James Walker Of
Pine Ridge, the author of a work on
the games Of the Sioux, now Is get
ting together a complete outfit of the
paraphernalia of Sioux games for
presentation to the society, and it is
hoped to build up here the most repre-
sentative museum of Indian relics In
existence.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-01
LIMIT CITY TO TWO SALOONS.
State and County Legal Departments
to Act.

Attorney General Clark, while at
Pierre a few days ago, visited Fort
Pierre to look over the situation in
regard to the licensing of four saloons
in that town, which is Stitled to but
two under the provision of chapter
ia Of the Laws of 1907.
When the applications were made
for licenses, they were all from men
who had been operating in the town,
and all of whom were property own
ers. Neither the county commission
ers nor the council Of Fort Pierre
cared to decide the respective claims,
and granted the four licenses.
States Attorney Hughes Of Stanley
county does not intend to let the mat
Ter go in that manner, and if he starts
actions he will have the assistance
Of the state legal department in case
ne desires it.
Just in what manner the suit will
De brought is an open question as be-
tween the different methods available,
but no doubt suit will be brought in
some form against the last two
licenses granted, and in this suit the
taw will be given a test on all it's
points, and other towns can be gov
erned by the result of the suit.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-01
FEES ARE CLERKS OWN.
Vital Statistics Collection Carries Re-
Enumeration.

The legislature of last winter, in
chapter 240 of the Session Laws,
makes clerks of courts ex-oficio super,
intendents of vital statistics, and re-
quires certain duties of them in re,
gard to the collection of such stats.
tics, providing a scale Of fees for
each service.
In Lawrence county, Clerk of Courts
Starr claimed these fees as his own in
addition to any other salary, which
contention on his part was not adj
mitted by the county commissioners
The matter was submitted to Attorney
General Clark, who holds thai these
duties are extra official, and as such
entities the official called upon to per
form them to the fees for the service
in addition to any other pay he may re,
ceive.
In the Lawrence county case the
fees amounted to several hundred dol.
lars, and while In most counties of
the state they will be small, each
clerk will find that they make an addi-
ton to his former salary.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-01
eoosrs THE ASSESSMENT.
South Dakota Commission VIII Take
Up Railroads Next.

The state board OF assessment has
completed its work on telephone and
telegraph lines in the state and has
increased valuations on both these
classes of property. The increase on
telephones amounts to s223,00 over
the valuations OF last year, and most
of this was placed upon local ex-
changes and toll lines which are v
nue-producing property, and the coun-
try local exchanges were reduced in
most cases, 1t being shown on the re-
ports filed that many Of them do no
toll business, the expense being kept
up by assessments on the members.
and in many cases the instruments
used on the lines are only rented, and
not the property of the members along
the line. This class of lines was given
a reduction, and all the increase
either comes from new lines or In
creased valuations on revenue-pro-
ducing lines and systems. The total
footing as left by the board for this
year is $500, 900. The Dakota Central,
the big system of the state, is assess
ed at 1913, 900, an increase Of $4,000
over It's assessment of last year, a
part of this increase being covered In
new lines and systems which the COM
pany has taken In by purchase within
the year.
Telegraph lines were increaser &c.,
700 over their assessment Of last year,
Of which the Western Union bears
$4,000, and the rest on the Postal.
The telephone commission has been
organized by the selection Of State
Treasurer Cassill as chairman and w.
E. Eye as secretary. While the com
mission will be hampered by the fail
ure of the legislature to appropriate
an expense account, they expect to get
through with as much of the work pre-.
sented to them as possible and take
their chances on the next legislative
session ~appropriating money to REIN
burse them for their expenditures In
their work as commissioners.
The new railway assessment law
means establishing a new basis Of as
sessment Of railroads when the board
takes up hat class of property this
week. the property of railways other
than the mere mileage coming into the
consideration Of the base of assess
ment. The board, as has others In the
past, would like to be able to establish
a better basis of assessment Of express
companies, The reports of these com
panies presented upon which to work
show only the business which both
originates and ends in the state, leav-
ing interstate business out of consid-
Grafton in reporting business for taxa
ton, on a claim that II is impossible L
pro rate such business among the
states which it crosses.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-01
lEO'S FINISH IN SIGHT.
Mountain Lion Is Sought by Nimrod
Who Killed 200 Bears, 6 in 20 Minutes.

Who Killed 200 Bears, 6 in 20 Minutes.
Having a record of having killed
than 200 bears, six Of which
were killed by him in twenty minutes,
William Mcmillan, a resident of
Meade county, in Western South Da-
kota, now will endeavor to run down
and kill a monster mountain lion
which for some time has been greatly
annoying and causing losses to the
ranchers near the western border of
South Dakota.
Among those who have been annoy
ed and greatly alarmed by the frequent
raids Of the mountain lion are Mrs.
Henry Schnitzel and children, who
are spending the summer on the
Schnitzel ranch. The children took
with them to the ranch three Shetland
ponies, and n by n they have all
been killed by the mountain lion. The
animal also has raided the corrals on
several occasions and killed and eaten
a number of calves.
When he heard of the presence Of
the mountain lion In that vicinity Mr..
Mcmillan decided to visit the scene
and put the animal out of commission
He took with him two rifles, and ex-
pected to return to his home with the
gelt OF the mountain lion.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-01
BOARD SPENDS WISELY.
Big Lump Of State institution Fund
Isn't Used.

Through the courtesy Of w. e. Tip
ton of Mitchell, secretary Of the board
Of charities and corrections, some In
teresting facts and figures have been
cleaned from the records of his office
relative to the conditions of the vari-
Gus penal and charitable institutions
of the state. At the close of the fiscal
year, June 80, 1907, the population of
the various institutions Of the state
was as follows:
Training school, P~lankinton, 81
males, ID females, total II; feeble
minded school, Redfeld, SO males, Sc
females, total 125; school for blind,
Gary, 80 males. IL females, total AZ;
| school for deaf rnutes, Sioux Falls, 30
males. SO females, total TO-; peniten-
! tiary, Sioux Falls, $50 males. 2 fe-
males, total 1872; hospital for insane,
Yankton, 430 males, 243 females, total,
678.
This makes a total Of 1,16s people OF
the derelict and defective classes in
this state out of a population of less
than a half million people, and it Is
an exceedingly low ratio as compared
with other states. There are some
thing more than 200 of the feeble-mind-
| ed and blind and deaf classes in the
state who are not In the institutions.
Financially the board has made an
excellent showing during the year. OF
| the money under the control of the
board for running the institutions for
the year $50, S59.7S was saved and COW
cred back into the state treasury, and,
better still, the institutions as regards
| the standard of care for the inmates
have never been In better condition,
all Of which reflects the wisdom of
having a strong and experienced board
at the head OF this arm Of the state
government. This indicates a radical
| change in the management of the in
| situations, for the time was in this
state when the funds every year in the
institutions not only were used up to
the last dollar but the legislature was
besieged for deficiency appropriations.
This has all been changed under the
present management, and it is some
thing for which the people of the
state have to be thankful.
The board has met with considera-
BILE difficulty in securing help at the in
stitutions, and at the present time no
less than fifteen people could secure
employment at the hospital for the in
sane at Yankton. Wages have been
repeatedly raised at Yankton, we are
informed, as at others, but this does
not entirely give relief.
New buildings are being constructed
at the ~penitentiary, at the school for
deaf mutes and at the insane hospital,
for each of which special a%ppropria,
tons were made by the last legisla,
ture. The construction of a Irvine
plant at the p~enitentiary is being
pushed forward as rapidly as possible,
and when this is completed and in ope-
ration farming will be practically elm,
mated from that institution.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-01
WIFE MAY KEEP LAND.
Hitchcock Says Husbands Legal Resi-.
dence Elsewhere Doesn't Count.

By n Of the most important de-
cisions this year the secretary of the
interior has just declared that a wife
who has taken up homestead land
prior to her marriage may maintain
her title to the land, even though her
husband makes his legal residence
elsewhere. The decision was in the
case of Mrs. Augusta Raymond of
Whitewood, who has been fighting two
years to hold her land. David Per.
kins of the same place contested her
right to the land on the ground that
Der legal residence was with her hus,
band, who is employed in another Sec
ton of the country. The land Office
at Rapid City decided against the
woman, as did the commissioner of
the land Office at Washington, but her
attorney appealed the case to Secre-
tary Hitchcock personally, and has
just been notified of the decision that
will make an important precedent for
future cases.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-01
State News of Interest
MUST BE PAPAs TO GET ESTATE
Six Sons Shall Wed or Lose Rights 40
Heirs.

HEIRS.
Imbued with the sentiments enun-
ciated by President Roosevelt in his
propaganda against race suicide, James
Madison, a wealthy cattleman Of Butte
county, who died recently, left an
unqualified Endorsement of the stork
in his last will and testament. In this
instrument he ~bequeaths a snug sum
to each Of his six unmarried sons
upon certain conditions.
The first condition is that each shall,
within tNo years Of the date of the
probate of the will, provide himself
with a wife. Within the next ten
years the legatee, In order to inherit
the estate left by his father. must have
accumulated a family of no fewer than
four children.
The instrument provides that the
estate shall be held in trust for the
sons for ten years, and at the end Of
that period 1t shall be divided equally
among those who have complied with
the conditions imposed.
Any son who shall have failed to
marry within two years or to have be-
come the father OF four children with
In the decade subsequent to the de-
mise Of the ~testator shall receive no
part of the estate, his share being d.
vided among those who have carried
out the wishes Of the t~estator.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-01
GETS PIONEER FLAG.
Banner Used at First Fourth" 1
Given to Historical Society.

SlNen 10 fiStorlCal Society.
Henry I. Stearns of Medary has pre-
sented the state historical society with
the flag which was foated over the
first Fourth of July celebration in the
upper Sioux Valley on the Fourth Of
1878. When the settlers begun to pre-
pare for their celebration they found
they had no flag for use on the occa
sion, and the one now in the posses
sion of the society was manufactured
for the occasion. The red stripes were
made from an old scarf, and the white
ones from a petticoat donated for the
purpose by one of the women Of the
party. The field was made by paint
ing a piece of white cloth blue, after
blocking u the stars, which were
left implanted. The banner is four by
eve feet in size. With the flag was
an old pair Of blacksmith tongs, which
were brought to Medary by the first
settlers in 1857, and which were with
other articles cached when the party
was driven out by Indians. Later set
tiers opened the cache and took the
articles inclosed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-01
NEW SETTLERS FILL VALLEYS.
Aomesteaders' Shacks Even Spread to
the Hills.

The state land department is con.
.inuing its typographical work on state
school lands, having had G.. c. Bar
ney and j. G. Damn, two of the field
surveyors in Butte county, for several
weeks. They worked principally In
the northern part of the county along
the headwaters of the Moreau and
Grand rivers, and they saw the valleys
Of these streams are practically all
taken by homesteaders who have
come in this spring.
A larger area than usual In a newly
settled country has been broken up
and put into crops, and everything
which has been planted is growing
dnely. The valleys have an immense
growth Of grass, showing that the soil
Is all right, and the homesteaders who
have located appear to be well salts
fed with the country in which they
have settled. The men In the state
work look upon the valleys as fine
agricultural lands, but are doubtful
as to the hill section between the
streams, although the prairie shanties
are beginning to get out into the hills
since the valleys are taken up.
The surveyors report antelope nu.
merous and tame, as the law protect
ing the little animals is we'll observed
by the settlers, and the animals Craze
about the settlements with but little
fear Of the people who have invaded
their old-time haunts. About the only
violations Of the law come from In
dams who get off the reservation on
hunting trips and pay little attention
to game laws when they see any wild
animal which will supply them with
something to eat.