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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
PxEsIDErr1 HREAKs
MESSAGE RECORD,

Up to adjournment for the holidays
President Roosevelt had sent eighteen
messages to Congress during the present
session, an average of one and half per
day. The following is list of the mes
sages:
Dec. 3-Congress convened.
Dec. 4-Message on the treatment Of GRIN
inals by probation.
Message Transmitting the annual
report Of the Civil Service Com
mission.
Message ON control of the yellow
Message on church claims in tho
Philippines.
Message recommending the author.
ization of the President to dis
miss officers of the navy without
Dec. Message recommending legislation
for Alaska.
Pee. 10-Message recommending the REIN.
bursement OF the owners of the
British schooner Lille.
Message transmitting the ordi.
nances OF the Executive Council
of Porto Rico.
Message recommending payment to
Lieut-Col. l.. X. Scott, y. s. A.,
for an invention nsed by the
army.
Message recommending the return
of customs duties collected from
certain British importers.
Message recommending an appro
priation for the payment OF the
cable company whose wires were
cut by Admiral Dewey during
the war with Spain.
Dec. 1l--Message describing conditions In
Porto Rico and recommending
citizenship for it's people.
Message transmitting the report Of
the Keep Commission on the pur
chase of department supplies.
Dec. 17-Message describing conditions on
the Isthmus of Panama.
Message concerning revision OF the
public land laws.
Message recommending reorganiza
tion of the naval personnel.
Dec. 1S-Message transmitting the report Of
Secretary Metcalf on the Japa
nese questions.
Dec. 19-Message on the discharge without
honor of three companies Of the
Twenty fifth United States In
fantry.
Dec 2o-Congress adjourned for the holt
days.
President Roosevelt will send still an
other message to Congress immediately af.
ter the holiday recess. This will deal
with the subject of immigration.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
SUFFER FROM COLD.
HARDsHIPs FOR FRiScANs IN
REFUGEE CAMPS.
Tented Camps I'm San Francisco
Parks Are Poor shelter Against
the California Winter Rains
Eighteen Thousand Homeless.

San Francisco correspondence
With the cold rains of winter uoon
them, $4,000 persons are still living in
the refugees camps of San Francisco.
There were 100000 in the camps when
order was restored after the great ire,
but warm weather was at hand then
and the problem Of caring for even
this great number was simplified In a
measure by this fact. Now 1T Is differ
cnt The winter Is on and the author
tiles realize that 1t will be harder to
care for $4,000 In the next four months
than it was to care for over ten times
that number early in the year.
The refugees are divided into two
classes-the self-supporting and the
non-supporting. The first are those
themselves, even to paying reasonable
rent, but have neither the furniture for
houses nor the ability to buy and who
In many cases cannot secure houses at
reasonable rentals, The mons supporting
are those who were rendered absolute
ly destitute by the fire, mostly old per-
sons, who are being cared for in a
camp set aside for them at the Ingle-
side race course These non-supporting
ones have been made comfortable in
shacks, where they are looked after
by relief captains. But the self-sup-
porting ones are having hard time of
It, DR.. Edward Il. Devine, who had
charge of the relief work up to Aug. /,
had planned to have permanent houses
built, but to escape bankruptcy the
corporation had to abandon this plan
toward the end of August, when the
refugees were all In tents. Then it
was decided to build wooden shacks in
the parks to take the place of the tents
in which there would be little shelter
for the inmates against the rains of the
California. winters. In all about 5000
shacks will have been constructed when
the work Is finished, but only a small
fraction of the shacks have been erect
ed and these are without plumbing and
without chimneys. 1t Is doubtful IL
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
PERISH IN RACE RIOTS.
Whites and Blacks Fight Fiercely
I'm MississiDDf.

Whites and Blacks Fight Fiercely
I'm Mississippi.
In a race riot which began with the
fatal wounding of conductor by a ne
gro on a Mobile and Ohio railway train
at Crawford, Miss, and ended with an
outbreak at Scooba, Miss, at least fif.
teen persons were killed and perhaps Q
score wounded. Following the shooting
at Crawford an outbreak occurred at Wa.
halak in which five negroes were killed.
Shortly after the departure of the
troops sent to quell the disturbance riot
ing broke out afresh at Scooba, five miles
south of Wahalak, and five negroes are
reported to have been killed. OF the
Scooba clash reports are conflicting, some
reports placing the number of killed and
wounded at a score. Troops were imme.
diately ordered to the scene.
Conductor r. n. Harrison of the Mo-
bile and Ohio was the man shot and ia.
tally wounded by a negro ut Crawford,
Miss. The negro, in turn, was shot by
Harrison and before he could escape was
killed by posse. Three companions who
were with the negro fed to the woods.
One of these was later captured and shot
to death. Tuesday night negro became
involved in an alteration with two white
men aboard train near Artesia, Miss,
and when the station was reached was
taken from the train and killed. In a
dispatch to Gov. Vardaman Sheriff Trout
Of Kemper county described the situation
as critical.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
RAILROADS EARN $a,s1s,7eo,oso
Interstate Commissions Report Gov.
ers 22O,O26 Miles.

Interstate Commissions Report Gov.
ers 22O,O26 Miles.
A preliminary report of the interstate
commerce commission on the income ac-
count of the railways Of the United
States for the year ended June 80 last,
contains returns from companies operat.
ing 220,026 miles of lines, or about 90
per cent of the mileage that will be GOV.
cred in the final report.
The total gross earnings of the roads
were $2,3i9, 100000, being equivalent to
$10,543 per mile. Passenger earnings
were $61S, $685. ,934, or S2,S11 per mile,
and freight earnings 81, 1,640,942,S ,S62, or
$7,45S per mile. Operating expenses
were 81, 1,532, 1853, 1913, or $6,963 per mile.
The net earnings of the roads were
$7S7 7,597,S77, being $3.50 per mile, and
nearly $97 100000 more than the CORE
spending amount reported for the previ-
Gus year. Income from other sources
than those of operation aggregated S132,-
1882. The dividends paid amounted
to $229, ,406,5 ,59S and taxes $3S, ,903, ,2SS.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
Radical Consumption Theory.

DIR. w. p. Turner, London physi-
clan of high standing, who has made a
frst-hand study of tuberculosis for many
years, has recently published his coDclu-
sions, the main feature of which is that
the disease is an animal disease,
primarily derived in all cases from
cattle. According to the review of
this work in Current Literature, he holds
that the original source of infection is
plant, cattle deriving it from timothy
or other allied grasses from affinity, and
that man acquires the disease from in
fectioa or incubation, never ~ inhala-
tion; also, that it is not hereditary or
subject to predispostioa. The bacillus
is saprophyte, feeding on vegetable de-
cay, but that it becomes pathogenic or
disease breeding when the cattle in which
il occurs are deprived of the sunlight,
which contains a property known as actin
ism. The group of diseases thus trans
mitted by cattle or flesh food he calls
mycotic. The grasses are the primary
host, cattle are the intermediary host,
and mnn rounds out the life cycle. So
that consumption can be regarded only as
a parasitic disease. According to this
theory, inhalation has nothing. TO do with
the spreading of consumption, and the
theory that infection is conveyed by the
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
Keep Your Blood Pure.

No one can be happy, light-hearted ahc-
healthy with a body full of blood that
cannot do its duty to every part because
of its impurity; therefore, the first and
most important work in hand is to purify
the blood so that every organ will get the
full benefit of healthy circulation. There
is no remedy We know of SO good as that
old family remedy, Brandreth's Pills.
Each pill contains one grain of the solid
extract of sarsaparilla blended with two
grains of combination of pure and mild
vegetable products, making it a blood
purifier unexcelled in character. One or
two taken every night for awhile will pro-
duce surprising results.
!, Brandreth's Pills have been in use for
over century and are sold in every drug
and medicine store, plain or sugar-coated.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

ducah and Cairo line Of boats. Then
he became freight agent for the Evans
vile and Terre Haute Road, and in
1890 became general traffic manager
of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois.
Subsequently he became president Of
three Indiana roads, and then was
chosen traffic manager of the Lake
Shore, holding that position until last
year, when he became vice president
of the Vanderbilt system, with charge
of traffic west of Buffalo. The last
promotion makes Captain Grammar
traffic manager Of the entire Wander
bilt system.
-
James e. Watson, who holds the
balance Of power in the House COM
mittee that is considering the ship sub
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

recovered from the shops of pawnbrokers.
Upward of 1000 lists of articles taken
in robberies, some of the individual cases
running as high as $4,000 in value, have
been scattered broadcast in that time with
the hope either of finding the booty or
obtaining clew to the thieves, but in
nearly every case without avail, and the
police are virtually at their wits end.
Detective Sergcants Murphy and Ware
have been trying to clear up the situa-
ton and have visited every pawnbroker's
place in New York, but they have been
hampercd in their work by the fact that
they were not permitted to leave copies Of
the list of stolen goods with the pawn
broker lest too much publicity should fol-
low, and they were allowed only to show
the lists to the keepers of the places, re-
lying on their memory for the rest As
result, not the slightest trace has been
obtained of something more than 100000
separate pieces of jewelry which were
taken in the course of the year.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

these little structures will turn the
pelting rains and surely the tents in
which thousands are yet housed will
not. The shacks are of two sizes, the
larger ones being 16x1S feet and have
three rooms, while the smaller ones
have but two rooms.
Ungenerous officials.
The city officials have not displayed
a generous spirit. When the shacks
were erected it was understood that
they were to stand until the middle of
August, 1907. But early In November
orders were issued that all the parks
in the district where most of the
camps are located should be cleared
forthwith Of tents, houses and refugees.
This was on the eve of election and
the order was that they must depart
before voting. Politicians interfered
and told the refugees that they would
not be removed. The park commits.
sioners renewed their order, but it has
not yet been put into effect and any
attempt to drive the people out will
lead to riot, for they have no place
to 60.
A monthly rental OF So is charged
for three-room shacks and Of 4 for
two-room shacks. The collection Of the
rent is difficult. Nine out of ten would
have paid without comment but for the
presence of agitators who refused to
pay and urged others not to pay. Those
who have paid their rent have been
watching those who do not and as the
non-payers continue in possession Of
their shacks the number who refuse to
pay increases daily. Matters We're
brought to a climax when eighteen
families took forcible possession of as
many Jefferson square shacks and held
them in open defiance Of the relief
corporation. They still hold them and
the effect Is demoralizing. The spirit
which they displayed Is indicative Of
the restlessness of the people and there
may be trouble before long.
Obstreperous Mary Kelly.
The raid made by the eighteen fam
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
Beware of OintmentS for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,

las mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole
leystem when entering 1t through the mu-
keous surfaces. Such articles should never
ne used except Oh prescriptions from reputa-
= tenfold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by f. ]. Cheney q Co.. To
ledo, O., contains no mercury, and Is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. In buy.
tlng Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t Is taken internally and made
Ap Toledo. Ohio, by +. J. Cheney & Co.
Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c per bottle.
, Take Halls Family Pil.s for constlpa tion.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

given charge of the
freight traffic, Is one
of the noted rail-
way men of the
country. He was
born in 1914 at
GAINESVILLE, o 10,
started in life as a
cabin boy on a riv-
er boat, and subse-
quently became su-
perintendent Of the
old Evansville Pa
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

founded the town
Of Sea Breeze, Fla,
confessed in court
at ack S onville,
Fla, that she was
a fraud, and paid a
fine Of $500 fer
fraudulent use of
the mails. In an
affidavit filed In
court she said she
Is suffering from
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

tcripg the cabinet Mr.. Moody had sery-
ed nearly four terms in the House Of
Representatives as Congressman from
the Sixth Massachusetts District. Pri-
or to his election to Congress he had
served as district attorney for the
eastern district of Massachusetts. Mr..
Moody was born in Newbury, Mass,
in 1853. He received his education in
Phillips Academy, Andover, and in
Harvard University, and practlced law
successfully before he entered the field
of politics.
-
Captain George ]. Grammer, who
has been elected vice president of the
consolidated system of railways and
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
Yet He Meant welY.

William Henry Harrison had juss
Ron the battle of Tippccnnoe.
II felt that ii was up to me-" he ex.
Stained, ito give the future novelists OF
Indiana a sort of historical background"
For, with the simple mindedness OF
great men, 1t did not occur to him that
kpdiana's coming authors would choose to
locate the scenes of their best selling
Stories in Palestine, Mexico, Graustark,
france and other foreign countries.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

ton in De Paw University. In 1886
he was admitted to the bar. He has
been grand chancellor of the Knights
Of Pythias, and also president of the
Indiana State Epworth League. He has
lived in Rushville, Ind, since 1893.
-
Mrs. Helen Wilmans Post, who few.
years ago was a mental healer as IA
nous as Mrs. Eddy or Dowie, and who
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

the lower house.
He Is a native Of
Baden, but has
been a resident
Of San Francisco
since childhood.
He b Sc t h Q
stage as a profes-
sion and has ap-
peared with most
of the re a t
American actors.
Subsequently he
tired of hiStrion-
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

sidy bill, which he
formerly opposed,
but which he now
favors, represents
the Sixth Indiana
district, and when
first elected to Con-
gress in 1894, de-
feated the veteran,
William S. Holman.
Mr.. Watson was
born in Winchester,
Ind, in 1864, and
received his educa-
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

cure herself Her pleas to be relieved
Of the thirty days Imprisonment was
granted.
-
julius Kahn, member of Congress
from the Fourth California district, Is
one Of the most picturesque figures in
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
The Only Way.

Asent-How can I manage to secure
tour attention for few minutes to the
subject of an investment in mining
IOtock7
| Victim (who is already interestvl -
1ix mining conpanies) You can't maSr
4ts to do II at oil unless you can make
noise like a dividend.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

States, has had the
b onor of having
filled two cabinet
positions before as
cending the Su-
preme bench. He
was Secretary of
the Navy fro IN
May, 1902, until
July, 1904, when he
b e ca m e Attorney
General, a position
he has just relin-
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
This VIII Interest Mothers.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Chill
INren, used by Mother Gray, a nurse In Chill
dren's Home, New York. cure Constipation,
lfeverishness, Teethlng Disorders, Stomach
TROUBLES and Destroy Worms; 10000 testi.
Enonials of cures. All druggists, 25c. Sam
Ip)s FREE. Address Allen 8. olmsted, IL
Roy, N. Y.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

ovERRuN BY THIEVES.

New York Police Helpless I'm the
Face of a Crime Epidemic.
In New York City more than $1,000
600 worth of property, chiefly jewelry,
has been stolen during the past year, and
only a small proportion Of it has been
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

Professional Etiquette.
The Undertaken (who meets the doc.
f0r on the steps Of hotel After you,
dr.-Black and White.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
Some OF the ADVANTAGES
- Sioax City List
An Authority.

Pyker-Say, you don't know what you
are talking about when you call me a
ddnkey.
Hyker-That's where you so lame. I
tsnce owned a donkey for six months.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

PILES CURED IN 6 TO - DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT Is guaranteed to cure any
case Of Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protruo
ing Piles In to IA days or money refunded
Soc.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

! Mrs. Thurston's successful novel, "Ths
,Nasquerader," Is being translated into
Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

les and turned his attention to the law,
ut which he has been very successful.
He is now serving his second term In
Congress.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

William Henry Moody, who has as
sumed his duties as associate Justice
Of the Supreme Court of the United
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

~Qraynss, did you ever 81 s~en win
tfas crowd that engineered that wheat deal
Ihpp you got so badly leftf"
Z 20, yss; ! caught up with them at the
%sxf cofner."
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

Truant boys are inferior in weight.
height and chest girth to boys in general.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03

There are 2,400 mineral waters bottled
Ian New York City.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-03
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-27
FILLED UP COACH ROOF
TO RIDE TO AMERICUS
Crowd Continues to Arrive
Here.

Americus was still the Mecca yes
terday of the holiday shopper, the
fact that Christmas had passed by
seeming to make no difference. A
great throng again surrounded both
the Seaboard and Central depots
and each arriving train poured a vol
ume of shopping humanity into the
city. For the size of the train the
greatest throng came on the CeptraPs
train from Columbus, arriving in
Americus at 1870 p. m. For some
reason adequate accommodations were
not afforded by this train-certainly
not yesterday, as when it finally
reached Americus the one single
coach and one combination passenger
baggage, mail and express car was
filled to the limit. The crowd was
packed two and three deep in every
seat, the platforms were filled with
holding-on, struggling humanity
while many passengers unable to get
sitting room or standing room had
climbed upon the roof OF the one
lone coach and upon the tender of
the engine These were dangerous
places to ride, perhaps, but the
crowd was determined to get to AM
ericus, and this was the only plan
available.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-27
CUFFY WITH PISTOL is
A MENACE AS USUAL
Christmas Booze Results
In Killings.

While good order was maintained
here in Americus on Christmas the
blac,. Zulus in the brush spread death
as usual, two if not three killings
marking the holiday. Out on the
Carter place, six tmiIes east of Am
ericus, one negro plugged another
buck with his trusty A, the bullet
piercing the heart and causing in
stant death, of course. The man be-
hind the gun was arrested and jailed
here Christmas night. On the Hugue-
min plantation another killing occur
red in which the shooter and the
shootee were black reyelers at a
Christmas mulletfest in which pis-
tolls and razors were the favors award
ed in the dance of death. A third
tragedy of like kind resulted on a
neighboring plantation, and while
the plugged party was not quite
ready for the coroner's matinee yes
terday it was merely question Of
short time. This black brother caught
the bullet of his pistoloric friend in
the jaw, carrying away all the bridge
work and artificial trestling. 1t was
said Yesterday that death in his case
was considered inevitable. Three
tragedies in rural blackdom is about
the average for Christmas, and the
record was thus kept straight on
Wednesday last.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-27
MEMBERS ARE SWORN IN
LAST NIGHT BY MAYOR
Aldermen Are Given Oath
of Office.

1t is now Aldermen G. M. Eldridge,
Lee Allen, G. Nj. Rodgers, y. S. Child
ers, ]. E. Poole and T. M. Furlow,
who will guide the municipal ship
'Americus" upon her course during
the next twelve months.
To the newly elected members, AL
dermen Allen, Rodgers and Eldridge,
the oath of Office was administered
last night at the meeting of council
by His Honor, Mayor Hawkins.
The formality was brief, each MEM
ber subscribing to the oath as re-
quired by law
Mayor Hawkins then announced the
standing committees of council for
the new year 1908, subject of much
interest, always The new committees
are as follows:
FINANCE. E. Poole, chairman
Aldermen T. NJ Furlow and G. M.
Eldridge.
WATER AND SEWERAGE-G. M.
Eldridge, chairman; Aldermen G. Nj.
Rodgers and T. M. FurloW.
STREETS-G NJ Rodgers, chair
man: Aldermen Lee Allen and z. S.
Childers.
PURCHASING-Lee Allen, chair
man, Aldermen T. NJ. Furlow and G.
M. Rodgers.
FIRE AND POLICE-Z. S. Child
ers, chairman, Aldermen ]. e. Poole
and G. M. Rodgers.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND LIGHTS
T. M. Furlow chairman; Aldermen
Lee Allen and z. S. Childers.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS-Lee Allen,
chairman; Aldermen G. NJ. Eldridge
and 2. S. Childers.
CEMETERIES AND PARKS-T
M Furlow, chairman; Aldermen Lee
Allen and j. e. Poole.
ORDINANCES-Z. S. Childers,
chairman, j. E. Poole and G. M. Ed
ridge.
Council then entered into an cleo
tion for mayor protein, which honor
by unanimous vote, was conferred
upon Alderman Childers.
The selection is an admirable one
and Mayor Protein Childers will wear
the ermine with dignity. EminentlJ
qualified for the position, he will
ever reflect credit thereupon.
The next meeting of the council
the first one of the new year, will
be held on Friday night January 3rd
1908, at which time the special license
ordinance will be adopted and other
important business considered.
No special business was taken UP
by council last night