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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-05-17

900 acres of prairie land, near Spirit
Lake plenty of water and good shade.
Good care guaranteed. ]. w. BURNEE
REGISTERED BREEDING STOCK
Herefords-I have a number of Register.
ed Hereford bulls and heifers for sale at
reasonable prices.
Duroc-Jersey S~wine-Boars and sows
registered. This is one of the best strains
in the state. Terms, cash or secured pa.
per. G.. A. SMITH E1a 5-111-55. Z miles
norteast of De Smet, $. ID.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
NEGRO BANKERS
 IN SESSION

Topeka, Kan, Aug. 16.-A sympo- sium on banking and financial topics, in which many of the leading mem bers of the National Negro Bankers association participated, was feature of the closing days session of the Ma tional Negro Business congress. Me- gro business enterprises, the drug business and the establishment of ne
 gro towns and communities were among the other subjects considered by the delegates. The voluntary seg- regation of negroes in separate towns was urged by representatives of sev- eral such communities, including Booker City and Hobson City, Ala: Mound Bayou, Miss; Boley, I. IT.; Buxton, Ia; Cassopolis, Mich; Eaton vile, Fla, and Wilberforce, o.
 The annual banquet of the league. rendered by local negroes, will be held this evening in the auditorium, and will be the closing feature of the conference.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
Save Sc day! Buy a lot In Home Addition. k. H. M. Mills & Sons.
TO THE VOTERS OF
 JEFFERSON COUNTY

Arkansas City, Ark, Aug. IF. I am now absent from Jefferson county in attendance at the Desha cir cult court in Arkansas City. My official duties will keep me here the present week, and for this reason will not be permitted to continue the canvass ot the county for the office of prosecuting attorney, as will my opponents. AS soon as my official duties here can be fully discharged, shall be among and see as many voters of my home county as possible.
 am sure that my fellow citizens whom I have not met will not blame me for failing to see them in person before the primary, when they under stand that to do so would be to neg lect the duties of my office. This cannot do.
 Earnestly soliciting the support or our people on August 2S next, l re- main. gratefully yours. |d2tw1 ONES. j
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
KAISER'S SOLDIERS
 IN DENVER

Denver, Colorado, Aug 17.-Thous- ands of former soldiers of the Kaiser who have become citizens of the Unit ed States are today the guests Of Dem yer, coming here to take part in the annual reunion of the National Feder- ation of Former German Soldiers, or rd-Amerikanische Kreigerbund. This is the first time the body has met west of the Mississippi, and this fact has greatly helped to swell the atten- dance. The local society of ex-Ger- man soldiers is in charge of the re- union and has raised $25,OOO to en- certain the visitors.
 The Kreigerbund was organized in the fatherland shortly after the Ger man armies had vanquished the Grand Army of France, and when the mem- ory of the glorious victories over Aus tria and Denmark in tn the sixties was still fresh in the minds of all Germans everywhere. Early in 1870 the first federation was formed and has since spread to every country where former soldiers of the empor- CT are to be found. The American body is founded on lines similar to the Grand Army of the Republic and the limited Confederate Veterans.
 One of the features of the reunion will be the big parade on Monday, when it is expected taht not less than 10000 men will be in line. With the marchers clad in gay uniforms of Ger man regiments, the pageant is ex- pected to be one of the most impress sive ever seen on the streets of Den yer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
The BANK OF PINE BLUFF

benefit of the people of his home state. He will speak in Lexington, Ky, August 22, and the interim will probably stop at his old home in Cincinnati. The two days will give him plenty of time to talk with his lieutenants and managers, thus leav- ing his presidential boom in as good a state as possible.
 From Kentucky Secretary Taft will proceed to Oklahoma City, passing through St. Louis, and will deliver notable address in the new state me. tropolis next Saturday. The visit of Taft will undoubtedly be the occa- sion of the greatest Republican demon stration to be held in the twin ter ritories during the statehood cam paign, and as such will attract na tional attention. It is stated that strong feeling in favor of Senator La Toilette has developed in Oklahoma and that MT. Taft hopes by his visit to overcome this opposition.
 Following his Oklahoma speech, MT. Taft will make two addresses in Missouri at Joplin and Springfield. Uncle Dick" Kerens, Thomas Neid- ringhaus and other Missouri Republi- can leaders are pushing the Fair banks boom, which MT. Taft hopes to head off by means of few we'll chos~ en words to the voters. The date at Lincoln, Neb., August 29 has been cancelled, and Denver will De favor- ed with the secreta-y's presence on that day, after which he will leave for Yellowstone park.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
JOBBERS RATES
 TO NEW YORK

New York, Aug. 17.-Merchants' rates to New York from trunk line territory went into effect today and will continue to next Wednesday, with the customary fifteen days return lim- it. Jobbers have completed their preparations to welcome the buyers and will show complete lines of fail and winter goods. Buying by the To- cal retail merchants will not begin un- til the last of the month, so that the jobbers can now give their entire u,- tention to customers from far-avay points. Efforts are being made to ar range for low rate buyers excursions from Texas, Oklahoma and Mexico
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
SECRETARY
 WILSON IS 72.

Washington, Aug. 16.-Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is today 72 years of age, having been born August 16 1885, at Ayrshire, Scotland. Tn point of service as we'll as years he is the oldest member of Roosevelt's cabinet having served in his present position since March 5, 1897. He joined the first cabinet of President Mckinley and continued with him until the mar tyr presidents assassination. Since then he has been secretary of the de- partment of agriculture under Presi- dent Roosevelt.
 MT. Wilson came to this country from Scotland when he was 17 years of age and settled with his parents in Connecticut. In 1855 the family re- moved to Iowa, where young Wilson secured the practical experience which has aided him in his work as the head of the agricultural activities of great nation.
 The political career of the secre- tary began when he was elected a member of the twelfth Iowa assembly. He became speaker of the fourteenth assembly. He was sent to congress in 1873, remaining to 1877, and again from 1883 to 1885. For six years he was director of the Iowa agricultural experiment station and professor of agriculture at the state agricultural college.
 Secretary Wilson has been spending much of his summer vacation among the farmers of the country, deliver ing speeches on agricultural topics in various places.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
STATE FAIR QUEEN
 POPULARITY CONTEST
Free Trip to Hot Springs and Weeks Free
 Entertainment at the State Fair.
Read the Graphic's Offer and Vote Early and Often
 for Your Fayorite

The State Fair Association proposes to give the premiums offered by the press of Arkansas for increased cir culation and advertising and for the payment of delinquent accounts.
 The State Fair Association agrees to pay all expenses of the one most popular lady from each of the seven congressional districts in Arkansas, to and from the State Fair and dur ing the Fair. This means railway transportation both ways from any point in Arkansas where the elected lady lives, her hotel bill at first class hostelry during the entire ten days of the Fair, to furnish her car riage to and from grounds, and to generally entertain her with recep- tions, fetes, etc., during the Fair.
 Each of these seven ladies will in turn reign one day during the Fair as the Hostess and Queen of the State Fair, during the other days she will prominently participate in all the functions, as one of the honored court ladies in the retinue of the reigning queen.
 The Women's Federated Clubs of Arkansas are with the Fair Associa- tion in this great popularity contest. The Federation has a standing State Fair Committee who are even now sending out letters to every club in the State, urging them to see that suitable ladies are brought into the voting contests in each district, so that we are sure to have State Fair Queens of whom we may all be truly proud.
 The club ladies are peculiarly in- terested in this matter for Thursday, October 10, will be Federation Day." and on that day Mrs. Richard B. Will lis of Searcy, president of the Arkan- sas Federation, will be the State Fair
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
NEW YORK AUS
 TRANS CELEBRATE

New York, Aug. 17.-A concert and banquet will be given this evening by the Austrian Society of New York to celebrate the 77th birthday ami versary of Emperor Francis Joseph. who was born August IS, 1880. Sol emn high mass will be celebrated in honor of the emperor at the church of St. John the Martyr tomorrow. New York has 60,000 Austrians, and prac- tically all will join in the celebra- tiOn.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18

conditions now existing. Let him bear
 in mind that the standard value of a
 cotton crop is, to a great extent, fixed for the Season by the price received
 for the early shipments. All cotton goods now upon the market are based
 upon 15-cent raw cotton, and the indl-
 cations are that there will be further
 sharp advances in the price of all cot
 ton goods.
 The combined forces of experienced
 intelligence, unlimited capital and in- satiable self-interest are at work to
 keep down the price of raw cotton, in
 order that the middleman and spin ner may enjoy an increased unearned
 increment which should in justice be
 paid to the cotton grower. Do not
 become alarmed and demoralized by the sensational reports and quotations
 of the New York Cotton Exchange.
 It is all done for purpose, which lis to depress the price of our great staple. I would say to the cotton
 grower: Don't be in a hurry to mar
 ket this years supply of cotton in
 three or four months, thus stocking the spinner full up." Let the Cotton Association fix a minimum price for middling cotton as a basis, and stand pat until the buyer "comes across with that nrice The future is bright with promise for the cotton states, ii we will only stand together. We have , the most delightful country in the uni verse, the best people in the world, the greatest monopoly on earth, and if we will make a proper use of ths brains which God has also given us we will be the most prosperous and happy people in His earthly kingdom.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18

Queen and Hostess
 The votes will be based on a i've cent valuation
 Thus a coupon clipped from the Graphic will count as one vote for whomsoever it is filled out. In case a lady or her friends solicit paid-in- advance subscriptions the Graphic will allow them one vote each five cents thus turned in. The same basis will be used in the payment of de- linquent accounts, allowing one vote for each five cents.
 Each of these coupons clipped from this paper and filled out with a lady's name will count one vote for her in the State Fair Voting Contest.
 In addition to the coupons clipped from the Daily and Weekly Graphic votes may be secured by sending ol bringing to the Graphic paid-in-ad vance subscriptions. During the peri cd of this voting contest, which will close at midnight Saturday, Septem. Der the seventh, every person bring ing or sending to the Daily or Weekly Graphic paid-in-advance subscrlp- tion will have the privilege of casting vote for the candidate of their SC. lection for each five cents of the amount paid.
 The total number of votes from the Graphic and all other papers in the Sixth Congressional District will be sent to the standing committee of the Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs directly after September the seventh, and at special meeting ot this committee these votes will be audited and the successful candidate will be announced at once.
 Any further information in con- nection with the State Fair Queen Voting Contest may be secured by addressing the Graphic or "The State Fair Association, Hot Springs, Ark
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
SAGINAW'S
 SEMI-CENTENNIAL

Saginaw, Mich., Aug. 17.-An en- tire week, beginning tomorrow, will be given over to the celebration of Saginaw's semi-centennial. Hundreds of former residents of the city have been invited to share in the festivities. All of the fraternal orders of the state will join in the celebration, handsome cash prizes having been offered for the best drills and parades.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18

In after life is founded upon wlaE you save Whle young. whether you be- come a business man or woman, Or enter upon a professiona career.
 Without money there can be no SUE- CESS-what are your chances?
 Our Savings Department extends 5 helping hand to you--it will keep you. savings safely and increase them with 3 per cent interest
 Start the account at once.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
REVIEW 0F THE
 CROP SITUATION Vice President c. T. Robin son of Southern Cotton Association Writes Inter estingly of Conditions
TO COTTON JOURNAL
Says Negro Hands Are Attracted to the Cities and Are Leaving the Farms-Early Shipments Have Much to Do With Fixing Values.

vice president of the Southern Cotton Association, for the Arkansas divis- ion, recently addressed a most inter- esting letter to the Cotton Journal, published at Atlanta, Ga. The let. ter which follows, was published in full in a recent issue of that pub 1ication:
 have, perhaps, been neglectful of my duty in not making a report in quite while, but the fact that the mercury has for the past ten days been soaring to the 100, or 102 degree mark, will, hope, be accepted as a plea in mitigation of any penalty to which, by my delinquency, I may have laid myself liable. After three weeks of drouth and torrid temperature, we had quite seasonable, gentle rain last night, which laid the dust, cooled the atmosphere and revived the wilt ing vegetation. The corn crop is very, very short; in fact, almost total fail ure. Cotton is growing and taking on some fruit. But the bulk of the crop is thirty to forty days late, and is scarcely worth counting in the esti- mate. From reports from all over the cotton belt. can see no intelli- gent reason for an estimate of more than 100000 bales of cotton, and probably not more than 10,00G,000 bales. Besides the lateness of the season and the many acres abandoned, there is a universal complaint of a shortage of labor.
 Thousands of the more intelligent and ambitious young negroes-like the young whites-are leaving the farm with it's long hours of daily la bor, scant fare, exposure to inclement weather and meager financial returns, for the city with it's strenuous life, shorter hours, greater physical com forts; also, with it's seductive vices which lure the minimizing from the sober, but safe, path of rectitude, mor- ality and virtue, to the glittering, but deceptive, highway which leads to vice and ruin. These young negroes will never again go to the farm-ex- cept as condemned convicts they are sent by sentence of the courts to the state penal farms.
 The labor question is one of annu- ally increasing gravity. The experi- ment is being made of importing farm labor from Europe and sume from Asia. Experience has shown that this class of labor remains on the farm just long enough to repay the cost of Importation, and to get money enough to move to the city, when, like it's predecessor, it becomes inoculated with a sort of urbomania, and has, tens to join the throng in the congest- ed city, and add increasing numbers to the criminal element which is al- ready taxing to the utmost the ca pacity of the municipal police depart ments.
 All of these circumstances point to a supply of cotton which, for many years to come, will be far short of the ever increasing demand. Let the cotton raiser be on the alert and wide awake to the opportunities and adyan- tages offered him by the industrial
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
CRACKER
 POsTMASTERS

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 17.-One of the largest state conventions ever held in Atlanta was that of the fourth class postmasters of Georgia, which opened today. There are 1,640 Nasbys of this class in the state and large propor- tion are in attendance at the confer ence.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
NATIONAL ARMY DAY

ChautauQua, N. Y., Aug. 17.-Thous- ands of veterans visited Chautauqua today to take part in the exercises arranged for ational Army day. Ad-
 dresses were delivered by several speakers of national prominence.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
SLOWER TRAINS
 IN MEXICO

City of Mexico, Aug. 17-Much slower time will be the rule on all trains operated on the National Lines of Mexico and the Mexican Central goes into effect tomorrow
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
Relies Upon Dillon.

Dillon has nothing 10 fear from any
quarterback in the game He thinks and
decides Instantly. There is never a.
nundredth Of a -econd's hesitation 81
his movements. and he never turns in
the wrong election while twisting
through a ragged line.
Mccormick. the great Princeton FULL
back. is remarkably fast for a big man.
He has the strength Of a Jeffries, and
with II the speed Of d Kelly. and the
other Tigers are par mobile fratrum. d"
As I suggested last week. The defeat
az the hands OF Cornell was a good
lesson for the Tigers. 1t vas due 10
careiessness and OvercOnfidence. The
way they went at the Indian Saturday
showed that these faults are now non
existent and Yale VIII have 10 face
an aggregation of athletes on edge 10
the minute. The Sons of Eli may WIN
the game, but / DO not believe they
will
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
Football Results

George Washington. 10. Gala dct, 5.
Georgetown. 3. North Carolina. Il.
/ Carlisle, .; Harvard 10.
J Cornell. II; Army. 0.
Princeton. Il: Amherst 0.
SwarthmOre, IS: Navy, O.
University Of Pennsylvania, q;
Pennsylvania State College, 0.
Lehigh, "a; University Of New York 0.
Yale. % Brown. O.
Phnlips-Andover. o. Phnlips-Exeter.
Yale freshmen. .; Princeton fresh
men, 6.
Dartmouth, 81, Holy Cross. 0.
Worcester Academy. 19: Brown fresh
men, 8.
Trinity. p; Stevens, 6.
Western University Of Pennsylvania,
10. University of West Virginia. 0.
Washington and Lee. g: Virginia. :.
Nebraska. II: Kansas. 6.
Iowa. .; Illinois, p
Wisconsin, II. Indiania. s.
Chicago. IS; Purdue, o.
Wittenberg. Il; Marietta, 50.
Gettysburg, L; Urslnus, 0.
Williams. IS; Wesleyan. 0.
Massachusetts Aggies. 70; Tufts. 70.
ST Louis. H. Wabash, L.
Harvard freshmen. 6; Dean AGA
denny. o.
Haverfcrd, s; Rutgers. .
Lafayette, 81; BuckneIL O.
Franklin and Marshall, 6: Jefferson
Medical College. 10.
Villa Nova, Is; Fordham, Il.
Dickinson College. I: AIedico-Chirl,-
sical College, O.
Ohio State, p; Oberlin. 10.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. p;
Virginia Military Institute, 0.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
RACING SEASON
OPEN YESTERDAY
IN CALICO RNIA
Demand for the Game
Growing on the Pa
Cific Coast.
By J. S. A. MACDONALD.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. Nov. 9.-Wil-
liams Park, at Oakland. Cal, got away
under running start for the long win
ter campaign today.
y more numerous boOknaking con-
tingent. a greater amount of money.
and certainly a larger attendance mark
ed the inaugural days racing than an
Oakland first day ever enjoyed before.
This auguTs well for the coming winter
In fact turImen generally agree that
this is going 10 be the finest winter
meeting which California has ever
known. The crowds. the money, the
good class horses. the bookmakers, and
the players are ali here, and you know
this spells roIlickiHg good racing.
In 1906 the new California Jockey Club
conducted racing from the early days
of November right up 10 June p, so
that il Is not ala improbable contingency
that President Williams and his assO-
ciate masnates OF the coast country
may make of the California field an
''aIl-year-roUnd' affair.
May Race All Year in 1908.
The PotaIuma meeting last summer
sent the game along for almost three
parts of the way, so that in the light
of the present prosperity of the sport
and the apparent demand of San Fran
cisco people for racing, and los of it,
YOU VIII be able to get some OF the
sport every day in the season Of 19JS,
and live in San Francisco. OF course.
This is a little early for a pTOgnOstca-
tiun Of this sort, but from The way
things started of today one could hardly
get away from the idea.
The course was crowded. while the
ring ran wild in small money" the
sort in which the old line, conservative
bookmakers like TO deal. Any way you
want TO look at ii. the game here is a
biz stronger than that at New Orleans.
Winter racing at both points has come
on about . per cent in the last two
years.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10

/ Will
| With Harvard, Yale should have no
| serious trouble on the form OF the re-
| spcctive teams. Both IN oHense and de-
| Tense the Cambridge team is behind
/ Yale. IL is true Harvard has a habi, Of
| coping on strong FOR ! ale, but il seems
| hardly possible that she can improve
sufficiently 70 hope for victory.
The other big game yet 10 be PLAYED
that between the Army and Navy-is
likely TO be the best Of them all IL
would be hard 70 find two more evenly
matched teams, and football luck Is
very likely 10 determine the result
Princeton is now really in the rowing
game. and while il IS hardly probable
that a Tiger crew viii be seen at Pough-
keepsie next year. # Is only a matter
Of time when the men Of Nassau will
essay 70 repeat on the water some Of
their victories in land athletics Rowing
divided interest with football in the Jer-
sey town this week. for the inJerclass
regatta was rowed on Carnegie lake
Friday. in the presence of Mr.. Carnegie,
the entire faculty and student body, and
a goodly aggregation Of the pOpUace.
Clinton Bird, s., the last captain OF a
Princeton crew. watched the races with
interest and expressed great satisfaction
al the showing made by the crews.
Coach Titus was greatly pleased with
the showing Of the champs. and with
reason.
Titus hasn't paid much attention TO
the single SOULS with his candidates,
but in the last two weeks he discovered
coming scEller IN Wuz Howard.
1909. stroke of the junior four has
much as the intercollegiate races at
PoughkeepSie are TO have single souls,
Titus is beginning early at Princeton
the Public Schools Athletic League. has
written a letter 10 the athletic clubs Of
New York in which he says that on
account Of the difficulty of obtaining
sufficient funds to carry on some OF. the
games the league has Jurisdiction over,
the indoor championships for this season
have been cancelled. For this reason
the league is willing that any of the
athletic clubs which run games may take
some Of the championship events and
hold them along with their competitions.
receiving sanction from the league in
proper form for the events.
1t will be impossible in these events
for any club to charge entry fees 10 the
boys. inasmuch as they viii have 10 be
registered in the Metropolitan AssOcia-
ton OF the A. A L.. and this is about
all the lads would be willing to pay at
present.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
WHITE THIEF TIPS
THE C0L0RED OWNER

WINSTED, Conn. NV. s.-The
worm has turned, John Piper, d
colored resident OF Sheffield. caught
white man stealing his chickens.
The thief, whose name Piper viii not
divUlge. surrendered tEe fowl and
gave Piper a tip 10 suppress the
facts.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10

The oarsmen are busy both at Cam
b,idge and oxford, and the indications
are that both varsities viii have un-
usually good crews next year. At OK
lord very few OF this years crew will