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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-08
Waubay Farmer Badly Frozen.

@ r.. Howell farmer who re-
s!oes six miles northwest of Waubay,.
is in serious condition, and liable
to have 10 have one or more limbs
ampntatcf, as result of freezing. in
last weeks blizzard. He was IN town.
on Fridaysand started in the evening.
to drive home. Nothing more is,
known OF his experience until the.
next morning, when the team was.
found by a farmer twelve miles from,
Waubay. The horses stood at the,
door of the farmers barn, while the
owner OF the sleigh was found sitting
u it. but so badly frozen that he wa s
unconscious.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-08
THE BLIZZARD
Entire Northwest In The
Thrall of the Storm
King.

One,o' the worst storms on record
struck this section Friday last: in
fact, il was general over all the
northwestern states. From Friday
until sunday, the cuuntrN from Iowa
IT, the Rocky Mountains was in the
thrail OF tie storm kong Tire wi I'D
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-08

Fox SALE-Two good teams of
young working horses. Inquire of
CHARLES TIscH,
FEB, l-22 Minnesota Twp
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
ROAD is OUTLAWED.
LICENSE OF SOUTHERN REVOKED
I'M ALABAMA.
Step Taken In Compliance with New
Law to Punish for Appeal to Fed
eraI Court-Doctor Sues for Lost
Diploma.

Alabama has entered in earnest upon
the war now being waged by Southern
States against the railroads, and Friday
took a step in advance-of North Carolina
by summarily revoking the license of the
Southern Railway Company to do bust
ness in the State, thus outlawing the
greatest corporation ia the South. Being
without the pale of the Law, the company
cannot claim police protection nor resort
to the State courts for redress. The
license was formally revoked by Secre-
tary of State Frank " Julian, who caus-
ed to be entered upon the stub of such
license in the records of his Office the
statement that for violation Of Senate
bill No. So, effective July /, the South
ern railway had been deprived of its right
to do business in the State. Act Sc pro
vides that when any foreign CORPORATION
is sued in the State courts and removes
such suit from the State to the federal
court the clerk Of the court from which
the removal was taken will at once GER
tify such action to the Secretary of State,
who shall thereupon Immediately cancel
said licenE and make and enter upon
the stub thereof an order in substance
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
GUARDS HER aIOTHER'S GRAVE.
Arms Herself with Shotgun TO De-
fend Burial Ground


In order to protect the grave of her
mother and to keep the government from
despoiling it. Miss Lydia Conley. the only
Indian woman lawyer in the country, has
erected a cottage in the center of Huron
cemetery in Kansas City. Kan and with
a shotgun will drive off those who at
tempt to take possession OF the property.
Uncle Sam has undertaken to sell the
property. which is the last resting place
of the odd and famous tribe of Wyandot
Indians, which once occupied the whole
State of Ohio, and which was driven
slowly westward, making its last stand
III Kansas. The government, at the re-
quest Of the city authorities, has had a
commission appointed to dispose of the
property. Miss Conley sought to prevent
this IL the federal Circuit Court, but
she has been ruled against, and it was
the ruling that caused her TO prepare to
guard her mothers grave when the time
comes. She says no one shall move the
bodies of her loved ones from their last
resting place so long as she is able to
lift hand in protest Miss Conley has
many of the popular attributes Of the
Indian. 1t is her boast that illness is
stranger to her, merely by reason of the
fact that she instinctively ooeys the In
dian rules of health She can work for
days without food and yet without feel
ing fatigue. In fact, her whole time is
spent in a manner that would put girl
less hardy out of the running in a very
short time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
NEW BLOW FALLS.
Oil Monopoly Charged with UnIaw-
full Methods in Raising Prices.

Oil Monopoly Charged with UnIayv-
full Methods in Raising Prices.
Following close ON the track of the
S29, $40, 900 fine imposed by Judge Lands
in Chicago on the Standard Oil Company
for violation of the Elkins law in unlaw-
fully swelling its profits by accepting Sc
cret rebates from the Chicago and Alton
Railroad, significant revelations are made
public in a report submitted to President
Roosevelt by Herbert Knox Smith, Com
missioner of Corporations. concerning the
operations of the Standard company. In
a previous report the means and methods
of the Standard were explained. The
present report sets forth the results of
those methods and the effect they have
had on the consumer of oil and on the
profits of the Standard Oil Company 1t
deals with profits and price, showing just
how the manipulation of the oil industry
by the Standard has affected the pocket
book of the American people.
The report is accompanied by a letter
from Mr.. Smith to the President, in which
the commissioner makes a scathing sum-
mary of the facts found in the report.
In concluding his letter Mr.. Smith gives
a resume of the facts he holds proved
facts which make the Standard Oil ap-
pear in a more unenviable light than
over
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
TROUBLE IN MOROCCO
TWENTY THOUSAND TRIBESMEN
PERIL cAsABLANCA.
fsh Seaport Observation-Disclosures
Cruiser Rushed to Port to Ayenre
Murder by Fanatics.

Grave news was received at Taprier
from Casablanca, the seaport where
tribeSmen murdered French, Italian
and Spanish workmen. When the mes
sase was sent the town was completely
surrounded by 10000 fanatical tribes
men and the Europeans remaining in
the town were in serious danger, as
the Noors were refusing to allow them
TO take refuge ON board the foreign
ships in the harbor The message added
that Europeans in Oasablanca are held
as hostages by the natives, who are
expecting bosnba rtlment by FrerlSh
wsrships.
Mohamned Ell Torres Moorish min
lister of foreign affairs, notified foreign
representatives here that the Kabyle
and other tribes are isi a state Of I'M
rest and warned Europeans not to quit
the towns, mentioning especially Rabat.
Ii is reported that the natives OF Saffel
are preparing to emulate those Of Casa
blanca. There are many rumors of an
impending holy war and q general
massacre of all Christians In Morocco,
but there is no continuation OF these
slarmist stories.
The basha of Casablanca will answer
with his head to the French govern
ment for the general security Of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
FEATURES OF THE DECISION.

To take from a corporation one-third of
its net revenues accrued during a period
OF violations is not as much real power
as is employed when sentence is imposed
taking from human being one day of his
liberty.
1t is the business of a judge to admin
lister the law as he finds it. rather than to
eXpatiate upon the inadequacy of pun
ishment authorized for its infraction.
Common honesty among men ought not
to be altogether ignored in business, even
in this day.
1t is the substance of the thing and
not the mere form with which the law
IS concerned.
Waving the question of the studied
insolence of this language, in so far as it
may be aimed at the present occupant of
the bench, the court can, of course, only
leave to the discretion of the Standard
Oil Company the wisdom and propriety
Of S1O0,000,000 corporation gratuitous
~ inaugurating agitation about the
mob
If carrier enters the field for traffic
destined to points beyond its line and
shipper turns his property so destined
over to it, such transportation is as clear
Y subject to the requirements of the in
terstate commerce law as would be the
,ase if the carrier owned and operated the
line through to destination.
Motive is not material in a case where
he proof is clear that it was the de-
'endant who committed the crime.
The court is not impressed by the dole
full predictions of counsel for the defend
ant as to the hardships upon the honest
shipping public to be anticipated from
the enforcement of this rule. The honest
man who tenders a commodity for trans
portation by a railway company will not
be fraudulently misled by that company
into allowing it to haul his property for
less than the law authorizes it to collect.
Under the doctrine insisted upon by
the defendant the railway company might
give the Standard Oil Company a very
low transportation rate and, by contract,
obligate itself to withhold the same rate
from the very man the taking of whose
property by condemnation rendered pos
sible the construction of the road.
II Is uOhtl lOI IL COHNiCleu ue-
PENDANT to urge the complete triumph
of a dishonest course as a reason why
such course should go UNPUBLISHED.
The conception and execution of such
a commercial policy necessarily involves
the contamination of subordinate officers
or employees, even looking to the time
when testimony will be required for the
protection of the revenues of the offender
from the exactions of the law for its
violation.
We might as well look at this situation
squarely. The men who thus deliberate
ly violate this law wound society more
deeply than does he who counterfeits the
coin or steals letters from the mail.
Where the only possible motive of the
crime is the enhancement of dividends,
and the only punishment authorized is
fine, great caution must be exercised by
the court lest the fixing of a small
amount encourage the defendant to flu
ture violations by esteeming the penalty
to be in the nature Of license.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
MANY. DIE IN MINES.
APPALLING FIGURES ISSUED IN
PENNSYLVANIA.
Official Report for the State Gives
1000 as Years Casualties, Leay-
ing Nearly 1000 Widows and
3,4oO Orphans-Brief News Notes.

More than 1000 persons were killed
last year in the coal mines Of Pennsyl
vania. according TO the annual report just
issued by James Roderick, chief OF the
department Of mines. The statistics show
THAI of J51 persons killed at the anthra-
cite mines pa deaths were the result of
the victims carelessness 60 to the care
lessness OF others, 1SS unavoidable and %
resulted from accidents for which re-
sponsibility could not be fixed. OF the
Al killed at the bituminous mines 301
victims died from their own carelessness,
10 by the carelessness of others, 142
We're unavoidable and IS dead by accidents
for which responsibility could not be
placed. The chief says that the figures
show that two-thirds of the accidents re-
suited from the victims own carelessness
and that the remaining third may be
taken as the reasonable percentage Of &C
cidents to miners. 1t seems impossible to
adopt any method" he said, ''either by
legislative enactment or by special rules,
that will tend te lessen the loss of life
among the mine workers" The accidents
left nearly 1000 widows with $40 chill
dren under II years of age. \ great deal
could be done to alleviate the distress,
the chief says, if the age limit for the
employment of boys inside the mines were
lowered from 16 to Il years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
News of Minor Note.

Public meetings are being held in Chile.
in opposition to the education bill, which
it is feared would give the clerical party
control of the schools.
An earthquake that rocked the tall
buildings was felt in Santa Barbara, Cal.
Several women attending the, Potter the
ater tainted.
John d. Rockefeller told the Euclid
Avenue Baptist Sunday school of Cleve-
land the secret Of happiness. He said it
lay in self-sacrifce and doing good to,
others.
An attempt was made to wreck the
train on which Grand Duke Peter Nlcho'
lievitch. cousin Of the Gar, was travelling
from Peterhof to St. Petersburg. pc
tard exploded on the track, but the tram
was not derailed.
Joseph Givens. a wealthy turpentine-
manufacturer of Brewton, Ala, was shot
and killed by his wife because he pulled
her tresses in his opposition to her pom
padour style of hairdressing.
The Wilson line, it is announced in
MEXICO City. will soon be plying between
New Orleans and Mexican and Central
American ports, touching at Vigia, Port
MoreIos, Belize and other points.
The first annual convention Of the Illu-
ninating Engineering Society Of Amer
lea was opened in Boston with delegates.
present from the New England, New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago and San
Francisco sections.
The Navy Department at Washington
announced that official investigation of
the recent explosion on the battleship
Georgia revealed that it was not due TO
defective smokeless powder, as had been
intimated by Robert S. Waddell, presi-
dent of the Buckeye Powder Company at
Peoria, Ill.
Latest of vast fortunes sought by seek
ars of lost treasure is the Transyaal war
chest containing s5,o00.0O0. The chest
was taken from hiding at Delagoa bay in
1903 and shipped on the Dorothea, which
vessel was lost on a reef in the Indian
ocean. Now the steamship Alfred Nobel
has been specially fitted up by syndicate
Tor the work of recovering this treasure
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
NEW YORK.

Crops, particularly corn and cotton,
have shown further improvement, there is
freer buying for fall at leading south
western markets. shipments OF fall goods
are expanding and there is evident a
more optimistic feeling as to distributive
trade generally, based upon the active
trade done of late at retail Relatively
most activity is noted in the larger south
western markets, at few central western
centers, and at the larger eastern cities.
In the South midsummer quiet rules. In
some lines of wholesale trade, such as
cotton dry goods, the activity manifested
is still notable. Spelter, copper and lead
are weaker, and business is light. Raw
wool is notably strong. Business failures
Cor the week in the United States num-
Der 142, against $50 last week, 40 in
the Like week in 1906, 17S in 1908. 179
in 1904 and 1914 in 19O3.-Bradstreet'
Commercial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
LEAVE CHURCH TO LYNCH MAN.
WorshiDers Rush from Pews and
Hang Negro Who Killed Officer.


The residents of Crisfeld, Md, rushed
out OF churches Sunday morning to aid in
the lnching of James Reed, a half-breed
negro, who the previous night murdered
James II. Daugherty, policeman.
Daugherty had arrested a friend of Reed
for selling liquor. Reed followed the
officer and shot him through the head.
The slayer seized bicycle and fed to
the bay, where he stole a boat and tried
to sail across to the Virginia shore. The
absence of the boat was discovered, and
the steamboat Aircliff went in pursuit.
Reed was found becalmed nearly half
way across the bay. He leaped into the
was dragged aboard with boat hooks.
Bound to a postum, he talked cody about
his crime and the prospect of his being
saved from lynching- When the boat
returned to Crisield a great crowd was
waiting. The boat steamed about for
half an hour waiting for the crowd to
disperse, and then, 100 deputies having
been sworn in to preserve order, the muir
derer was landed. He had hardly reached
the foot of the gang plank when the mob
made a rush for him and dragged him
out of the hands OF the officers. He was
beaten and kicked almost to death and
then dragged through the streets to the
scene of his crime and hanged to a teRe-
graph pole. A coroner's jury rendered
a verdict that the lynching was done by
parties unknown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
PEACE MORE FATAL THAN WAR.
Killed on Railroads IN Three Months
Exceed Number at GaIfyShnrg.

During The first three months of the
PRESENT calendar year more people We're
killed on the railroads Of the United
States than during the war with Spain
and the casualties were greater than dur
ing the three days fight at Gettysburg
during the Civil War. During the months
of January, February and March the
total number of casualties to passengers
and employees was 20,5G3, a decrease of
3S1 az compared with the preceding three
months. Passengers and employees to the
number of 421 were killed in train acct
dents and 1920 were injured, being fifty
three less killed and twenty less injured
than during the preceding three months.
There were 2,01S collisions and 1913 de-
railments, passenger trains being in 323
collisions and 229 derailnents. Properly
losses and DANA ges suffered by the rail
roads on account of these accidents
amounted to $3.50, 10. There was a
notable decrease of p per cent in deaths
due to coupling accidents, but there was
shown no other important decrease in
deaths due to other causes. The acct
dents covered in the report included two
collisions and two derailments, in which
eighty-two persons were killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
GA AAtXysM< EEER2CLAL
J.. 80 sE.s E:::l::1 Hin
81 AND lla
Ah ~ ~: W. -Sfs
zENANCLA
CHICAGO.

Midsummer quiet is more in evidence.
but no loss OF strength appears in the
general conditions supporting the business
outlook. The recent ratio of gain in the
volume of payments through banks is not
sustained this week and the record of
trading defaults again compares unfavoY-
ably in numbers with those year ago.
The leading industries disclose no spe-
cial change. Satisfactory weather per-
mits factory production to run without
hndrance, and the volume of distribution
OF finished products and general merchan-
disc makes an increasing exhibit, although
there is smaller movement of grain, due
to decreased marketings.
New demands in iron and steel aggre-
gate no less than expected at this time,
put there are more bookings of contracts
Tor cars and other equipment, and in
qulrles increase for rails and plates to be
taken next year. Furnaces work close
to capacity.
Operations at the mines are now rushed
in the effort TO overcome the setback caus-
ed by the strike.
\ further decline is established in cop
per, but other markets for raw materials
continue steady.
Building activity retains a good out
look. The Wholesale markets for staples
advance in activity.
Agricultural affairs are seenk to be
much better than month ago, Iand the
returns obtained for grain and Live stock
steadily enrich growers throughout the
West. Harvest reports indicate isl ason-
able progress with winter wheat ana
oats making good yields. Corn iInpi owes
right along and spring wheat seq tlohs
send in more encouraging advices. sup
plies of live stock fail to measure up ade-
quately, and this brings the highest Fefdes
recorded this year for choice beeves and
further rise in hogs, products of the lat
ter also making a higher average cost
Dun's Review of Trade
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
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Chicago-Cattie, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $685.; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $50; wheat, No. 2, 90c to Ole;
corn, No. 2, 53c to soc; oats, standard,
Acc to Ale; rye, No. 2, Sic to SIC hay,
timothy, $14.OO to $21.00; prairie, $500
to 5000; butter, choice creamery, dc
to 24c; eggs, fresh, 14c to lie; potatoes,
per bushel, soc to 90c.
Indianapolis-Cat shipping, $500
to S710 hogs, choice heavy, S4OO to
S6.55; sheep, common to prime, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, SIC to Sic; corn,
No. 2 white, SIC to 53c; oats, No.
white 45c to 46c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 1925;
hogs 500 to $6.45; sheep, $500 to
1913; wheat, No. 2, SIC TO 89c; corn,
No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2, 45c to
46c; rye, No. 2, SIC to SAC.
Cincinnati-Catt $500 to 1928;
hogs, $500 to $6.4O; sheep, $500 to
1885: wheat, No. 2, 90c to Sic; corn,
No. 2 mixed, soc to &c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 45c to 46c; rye, No. 2, SEC to SIC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 1913; hogs,
S4OO to SO.4O; Sheep, SZ.oV 10 pow,
wheat, No. 2, Ole to 92c; corn, No. 3
yellow, sc to 5Sc oets, No. 9 white,
Acc to soc; rye, No. 2, 79c to soc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
99c to $1.01; corn, No. 3, 53c to 54c;
oats, standard, Acc to 47c; rye, No. l,
Soc to SIC; barley, standard, 69c to zoe;
pork, mess, $16.27. II
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $500; hogs, fair to choice, $4.OO
to 1913; sheep, common to good mixed,
800 to $500; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $500.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $685.;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 96c;
corn, No. 2, 59c to 60c; oats, natural
white, 53c to SOC; butter, creamery, DC
to DC; eggs, western, 16c to 20c.
Toledo-Wheat, No mixed, SOC to
9Oc; corn, No. mixed, 54c to 56c;
oats, No. mixed, 4Jc to 46c; rye, No.
2, 74c to 75c; clover seed, prime, S9.45.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
TO LIGHT UP NIAGARA.
Illumination of Famous Cataract a
Remarkable Scheme


The contract has been closed for the
night illumination of Niagara Falls, and
the proposed plan for lighting the mighty
torrent will be the greatest feat ever con-
ceived in electrical illumination.
The illuminating scheme calls for near
ly 30 large searchlights, several of them
the largest of their kind and capable of
throwing a beam of light a hundred miles,
and the new color scintillator, a late in
vention. The projectors will be located
below the falls in two batteries, one at
the waters edge and the other on the high
ground of the Canadian side. Every inch
of the two falls will be under light
The new color scintillator is an attach
ment fitted to the searchlights by which
the beams of light can be made any color
at will. Thus the mist and water, bathed
in all the colors of the rainbow, will sur
pass anything in spectacular effect save
the great Northern Lights.
The proposition is to illuminate Nj
agara on scale in keeping with the sur
roundings. 1t is said by the Illuminating
experts that the rays of colored lights
when flashed in the air will be visible at
Rochester and Toronto.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08
Big Fine for Rockefeller.

The Standard Oil Company Saturday
received the most terrific blow in its his
tory. and simultaneously was served with
notice that more serious trouble was in
store for it. Judge Kenesaw NJ. Lands,
in the United States District Court at
Chicago fined the company $50, 100000,
the extreme limit of IS penalty fixed for
the acceptance of illegal rebates under
the conviction of last April. This fine is
by far the largest ever assessed in any
case in the history of Jurisprudence. 1t
was accompanied by a scathing criticism
OF the oil trusts methods,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-08

our supply of gasoline than for the lodg-
ing and meals for the three of u.s." Mr..
Smith toured 4, 800 miles in Europe with
out serious breakdown or clash with
foreign customs. Not having exhausted
the pleasures of motoring, he and his
party toured several Eastern States on
their return TO this country and then
motored TO Chicago. Without once re-
sorting to railway trains. they Travelled a
total distance of 5000 miles in their car.
and only relinquished it as a means of
transportation for the ocean passage. The
entire trip cost them $4,000 and the ma
chine in which it was made 5000.