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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
Hotel Home of the Wealthy.

Already more than one-half of the SOA
living rooms in the new Plaza Hotel.
which was recently completed at the cor
ner of Fifty-ninth street and Fifth ave-
nue., New York City, at the cost of $12,-
$4,000, have been taken in the form Of
suites as permanent homes for million
aires under yearly contracts. The rent
ais of these tenants vary from $4,000 to
$4,000 a year. The suites include par
lor, dining room, library and varying
number of bedrooms, all opening upon a
private hall, which in turn connects with
a public hotel corridor. This insures
privacy and a sense of family unity to
each set of rooms. Warming and refrig-
Grating apparatus in the private pantry is
: connected by chutes int tubes with the
general kitchen in the basement, so as to
give a dining service the advantage of a
perfectly equipped hotel plant, but in
the privacy of an individual home. Names
prominent among those who have taken
suites here are the Goulds, Gates and
Vanderbilts. Single rooms may be rent
ed for 81 a day, and double rooms, with
bath, for Sc a day. The hotel will be fully
occupied when it houses 600 people, be-
cause SO man. rooms are used as parlors
and dining rooms.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
RELIEF FROM NATION
GOvERNNfENT TAKES ACTION TO
STEM THE FURRY.
President Says the People Should
Realize How Fundamentally Sound
Business Conditions Are, and How
Absurd Ii is TO Become Panicky.

To stem the financial furry extend-
Ing to all sections President Roosevelt
has authorized the issuance OF $780,
100000 OF government securities, and
coupled the action with q plea to the
people to recognize the fundamental
soundness OF American business, take
their money from safe deposit boxes
and put 1t into the channels OF trade.
He regards the situation prevailing as
q combination of popular fright and
currency famine
Since 800. 000, 900 OF the securities
Will be in 8 per cen treasury notes
payable In q year and available as cir
culating medium the issue will add
800. 000,O 900 to the currency. This
will 30 far to curegthe currency fam
Inc.
The presidents reassuring words
+ expected to cure the suspicion
which has existed even to national
banks not only on the part OF depos-
TORS, but or the part OF other finan-
cfal institutions. The president gives
especial heed to complaints from the
south md west that the New York
banks are boarding money. He states
the relief measures must especial
" be extended to crop movements.
Firty millions OF Panama bonds
bonds will be issued in accordance
Will be issued In accordance
revenue to pay for the canal con-
struction. They will pay 2 per cent.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
p:ss ..t,Enp 60. MoNEE.
Clever Sw.ndlcTs are ut work in
South Ealcta.

South Dakcta.
During the past few weeks com
plants have been received by h
United states authorities in Sioux
Falls from different parts of the state
In reference to tho operations Of men
who seem to be wei supplied "lta
wild cat" currency, which they nave
succeeded IN passing upon a rumbcf
OF unsuspectinE South Dakota bu&l-
ness men. The men handling the
spurious money appear to conine
their operations to the smaller places
In the state. The currency handled
by them are old issues OF bills of the
Merchants & Planters bank, Of Geor-
gia, issued during the Wild cat cur
rency period about the time OF the
war of the rebellion, and other bills
Issued during that period. The prac-
tice of those handling the money is
to split the old bills in an ingenious
name and then paste together the
faces Of the bills, back to back, so
that the denomination of the bill APP
pears both upon the face and back
of the bills they tender in payment for
purchases in stores.
The United States authorities have
been urged to run down the men
passing the bills and arrest them, but
the fact that the United States officials
are powerless in the matter does not
seem to be known to the people OF
the state generally. The federal auth
critics are able to make arrests only
in cases where anyone passes coun-
terfeit money. The old wild cat cur
rency being passed by ~swindlers in the
state does not come under the head OF
counterfeit money-not being a rep
resentation of any lawful money of
the United StateS-and therefore the
passage of the money is a matter
purely for the local and state auth
critics to take care of. Persons ar
rested on the charge of passing the
non are subject to prosecution on
the charge of obtaining goods under
false ~pretenses or by fraudulent
means.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
Rrief News Items.

Chancellor E.. Benjamin Andrews de
clared in an address at the George Wash.
ington university that libelers Of public
men should be hanged.
The Nova Scotia government has APP
pointed a commission to examine into
and report on the feasibility of old-age
pensions for workmen.
In the Province of Pampanga, Philip
pine Islands, Bishop Oldham (MethodistH
has made a record this summer by dedi-
eating eight mission chapels within six
days.
Licorice root grows wild in the fields
of Asia Minor, and until so years ago
was practically unused. To-day the an.
nual exports to the United States alone
are worth about $55o,o0O.
At all railway stations in Germany
there are automobile slot machines which,
for a 2h-cent nickel, deliver a ticket,
without which no one who has no rail-
way ticket is allowed IN the platform.
The supply of clergy in England is not
keeping pace with the demand, so far a
the Episcopal church is concerned, tho
Trinity ordination lists showing this yeae
only an incrcsH os eight deacons eve
1855.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
The News Of South Dakota
ILLEGAL INDIAN LEASES.
Court May Re Appealed to for PRO
Aa.t-.-AE n-uilnG.ann

Court May BE Appealed to for FRO
lection of Trlbcsmen.
The United States court in sioux
Fails may have to be appealed to IN
tho effort TO stop the practice OF GER
tain persons in making illegal leases
with the members of the Sisseton ana
Wahpeton tribes of Indians, by which
they secure illegal possession of lana
belonging to the dia
c.. b. Jackson, United States IN
dian agent in charge of the Indians,
has beer so annoyed by the practice
that he has given a public warning,
threatening that if it becomes neces-
sary he will commence legal proceed
ings In the United States court against
the guilty parties for trespass, and
thus suppress the illegal leasing Oh
Indian allotments. N
Leases made by the Indians OF
lands in severalty are absolutely void,
and neither such leases nor occupancy
and planting of crops upon the land
by the ~lessees or their subtenants give
the occupants any right to restrain
the officers of the government from
removing them from the lands.
All leases of Indian lands have to
be approved by the secretary Of the
interior, and leases issued in any 9TH
er or secured from the In
dams direct, are not worth h paper
they are written upon.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
FAIR IS A FAILURE.
Jamestown Exposition Has Proved
an AFFECT Fizzle.

Jamestown Exposition Has ProveA
an AFFECT Fizzle.
According to a Washington CORE,
spondent, the jamestown exposition has
proved an abject failure. 1t is hops-
'lessly bankrupt. The government is to
lose the million dollars it loaned, and
a lobby is preparing to invade Wash
ington to try to saddle the public treas
ury with the other 100000 Of the
exposition's debt.
The total liabilities Of the exposition.
according to official figures, will reach
the sum Of $3,465,ooo. The total assets
are $4,000. Therefore the exposition
is bankrupt to the tune Of $2,S55,o0o.
Second mortgage bonds will be dua
next month for $370,e0O. There are
first mortgage bonds due next year fof
100000, and the exposition owes the
United States government up to date
$SSS,OO0. The assets OF the exposition
consist Of the permanent improvements
to the real estate, estimated at $780,
600. Fixtures and furniture $4,000
and unpaid stock subscriptions $780,
600. The exposition has cost over
5000, ZOO. The buildings put up BY
the exposition company cost $1,750,00O.
Those erected by the States 5 100000.
and those by concessionaires 81, 100000.
The government and exhibitors each
have spent about 100000. The total
gate receipts to date have been about
$5OS,OOO. The daily expenses have been
$4,000. The expenses have from the
beginning been greater than the re-
ceipts.
Perhaps the most potent reason for
the exposition's failure is found in the
purpose Of a party Of the original pro-
moters to engineer a clever real estate
speculation. 1t was figured that the
exposition was to bring Improvement
to the barren waste of lam which was
chosen for the site, and the promoters
were to profit by this unearned incre-
ment by becoming owners OF this M
This influenced the choice of the ex-
positions site, and the most important
reason for it's failure was the inacces-
sibility of this site. To reach the place
a boat trip from Washington Of twelve
hours was required, and there never
has been a time when there were
enough boats to handle the traffic COM
fortably. In addition to which there
we're no facilities at the exposition for
covering the ground, and the visitor
was subjected from he beginning to
all manner of petty imposition and dis
comfort.
A determined effort will be made in
Congress to foil the efforts Of the lobby
to try to make the government "a goat"
for this losing speculation.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
RELIC sWINDLE EXPOSED.
One of tho Clevcrest Frauds of Ec.
cent Years.

One of tho Clevcrest Frauds of Tsc
cent Years.
An alleged copy of Noah's diary, en-
graved upon a copper tablet, dug up
in Michigan and offered for sale to a
Wisconsin collector, has resulted in
uncovering one of the ~cleyerest fake
relic swindles Of recent years.
A former secretary OF state. who re-
tired under charges some year ago,
Is implicated in the affair, and with
him are a university museum curator
and other Michigan men. Michigan
copper formed the basis of the enter
prise, which consisted in manufacture
ing battle axe and other ancient
relics out of copper, paint them green
to represent verdigris, dipping them
in a corrosive acid and burying them
In mounds. after which they were dug
UP by relic hunting expeditions under
the leadership of the promoters.
1t is saAl the relics were sold to
colleges and museums oil over the
country.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
Hnr. cancer Cure Demonstrates.

A public demonstration of the new full
guration" treatment for cancer has been
made at Paris by DR.. Hart, in the pres
ence of thirty prominent surgeons of all
nations. DR.. Hart, whose home is at
Marseilles, has used, the treatment for
eighteen months, and in IS per cent Of
the cases the patients remain cured. By
means of Gaiffe's electric transformer he
sends through an insulated probe an cleo
trio spark 5 inches long. This is applied
with a fulgurating or flashing effect on
the cancerous growth, thus destroying all
the diseased tissues. Then the spark ID
used in lieu Of a knife to volatile the
affected part. The wound is washed in
water and antiseptic.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
BARNEY ENDS LIFE.
Dcposed Banker Sends a Bullet Into
His lyrJx, s EH .UN

L DGDoSIu 3klAtgS IL IA 80
His Body.
Charles Tracy Barney, Of New
York. the deposed president of the
Knickerbocker Trust Company, and
until recently a power In the financial
world, shot and killed himself in his
home Thursday.
In distress of mind over the dlssi.
patton of his private fortune AID the
loss OF his high standing mong bust.
ness associates and intimate %acquaint.
ances find the hidden drift that broke
his health and reason.
Mr.. Barney, who was in his 57th
year, shot himself while alone in his
chamber at the rear of the second
floor of his home. The bullet entered
below the heart and lodged under the
left shoulder blade. He died about
2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon af-
ter suffering intensely.
Mr.. Rarney's undoing came with
the disclosures in the Knickerbocker
Trust company management, which
followed the failure of Otto Heinze &
Co. On the afternoon of Oct. 81 the
National Bank of Commerce notified
the clearing house association that it
would not longer clear for the Knick-
erbocker Trust company. A meeting
of the trust company directors was
hurriedly called. That night Mr..
Barney resigned the presidency. The
following day there was a run on the
Knickerbocker company which forced
1t to suspend. Mr.. Barney, who had
seen the institution grow to be the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
WOMAN TAKES POISON.
No Reason Assigned for Act OF Author
and PoeteSs.

No Reason Assigned for Act OF Author
and Poetess.
Nora May French, poetess and au-
thor. ended her life by taking cyanide
of potassium at the bungalow Of the
poet, George +. Sterling, at Camel-by-
the-Sea, a colonly of artists and writ
ers on the Pacific ocean below Mon
terey. Cal. No reason can be assign
ed for the suicidal act. and her friends
seek In vain for some explanation for
the impulse which prompted her to
take her life in such a sudden and
tragic Miss French enjoyed
good health, and her life TO all APP
ipearances ran smoothly. giving every
promise OF a brilliant career. For
some ear past she had beer a con-
itributor to various coast magazines,
and some OF her verses have found
their way into eastern publications.
Miss French came here originally
from Los Angeles, where her father
now resides. She was "a years OF
age
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
MUST PAY INSURANCE.
a Decision Against Companies in san
Francisco.

a Decision Against Companies in a
Francisco.
A verdict against a fire insurance
company affecting nearly all the suits
in which earthquake clauses in poll
cies ave constituted the main de-
Tense. was rendered in the United
States circuit court. Judge Van Fleet
ordered the jury to return a verdict
in favor of the plaintiff.
The case was that 81 Leon Willard
& Co., OF a Francisco. against the
Williamsburg Fire Insurance com
The anioun awarded was So
500, the full amount sued for, with
interest at Z per ent from date OF the
earthquake, April IS, 1906. The rul-
ing of the court followed closely in
line with that Of Judge Whitson In the
Bergin case some time ago.
The defendant company based its
defense on the clause IN It's policies
which reads that it would not be liza
Bile for loss occasioned by or through
volcano, earthquake, etc.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
SHOOTS OWN

MAJ. McIAaughlln, Prominent Califor-
niar, Then Ends Own Life.
Maj. Frank Mclaughlin, q promin-
politician and capitalist. OF Santa
Crux, Calf. shot his daughter Agnes
IN the temple, the bullet coming out
1t the other side OF her head. Soon
afterwards he committed suicide.
After the shooting Maj. McLaugh-
lin telephoned to former Lieut.. Gov.
letter 20 com down Immediately to
his home, saying:
II have killed my daughter Agnes
and I intend TO kill myself.n
He told Mr.. letter to brings doc
tor. Mr. letter and q friend jumped
Into buggy and drove to Maj. Nc
1Aughlin,s house. where they arrived
In time tQ see him breathing his last.
H0 had taken prussia acid. In the
roorns near where the body was found
= number Of letters were discovered
addressed to different persons. One
OF them was addressed to Mcpherson
= Waldron. proprietors Of the Santa
Cruz Sentinel, which read:
sss Dear Friends: Please treat my
memory az kindly as you can. Dur
intg nv life ! did much good and but
littlo evil.s
II wrote 70 Or. +. p. Morgan
hers that ~ was financially embar-
rassed and that he was going to 'tend
IL Ill
His wife died just two years ago
md ne cherished her memory sac
redly. The daughter whom he shot
Waa years old.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
UTE WAR SEEMS ovER.
Some Of Braves Have Decided to Go
To Work.

t &tA4t ~ NNOAAs f--a-E.
No work, no food" the dictum Of
the interior department., has been ac-
sc6pted by the renegade Utes at Thun-
der Butte, s. ID. Saturdays advices,
received at the headquarters of the
department of the Missouri from the
forces In the field, indicate the war Is
over without bloodshed and that di-
pIomacy a won the day.
Col. Frank West, in command OF
the Second cavalry, reports that fifty
or more OF the Indians ave finally
ers are likely to follow their exam-
pies. Work has been found for them
on tho Milwaukee extension north of
Thunder Butte. This is regarded as
almost q solution Of the Indian trou-
bles.
West reports that the show of
force has had a salutary effect upon
the unruly Indians, indicating to them
that the government does not intend
to temporize with them in any way.
Indians are now quiet. The
troops will probably remain In the
neighborhood for some little time yet,
60 - ID ST5i 49, lltc ClCo may WCdhCil
In their Willingness to work If the SOL
'diers are withdrawn now.
Reports received in Sturgis, s. D.,
from the White Horse subagency on
Moreau river, say that the Ute Indians
are slipping away from the camp, a
few at q time. The Sioux Indians say
II the Utes don't leave there they will
kill them.
The troops now in the field are as
follows: One company OF the Six
infantry at Gettysburg;
at Agency. with a small de-
tachment OF cavalry; Troop X, Sec
ond cavalry. at White Horse, forty
i've miles from Agency; a detachment
OF cavalry at Green Grass. thirty
miles away: and eleven troops of the
cavalry near the mouth Of
Thunder Butte creek, fifty miles from
White Horse. The latter have a gun
platoon.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
OPENS WITHOUT DISORDER.
Third Russian Parliament Assemblies
I'm st. Petersburg.

LMHAH aEAEa
Third Russian Parliament Assemblies
In st. Petersburg.
The third Russian parliament was
opened In Tauride palace. st. Peters
burg. al II o'clock Thursday morn
Ing, iun the presence Of Premier stoly-
pin and the cabinet, by M. Colubor,
Vice president Of the council Of the
empire. The religious service proceed
ing the opening was conducted by the
Metropolitan Antonius and a large
number Of bishops and other coolest
astics, and vas made the occasion for
q great display Of patriotic enthusiasm
on the part OF the conservative and
moderate members. The emperor was
vigorously cheered. The city was
perfectly quiet. A few hundred stu
dents gathered In the vicinity Of the
palace. but they did not attempt to
make q demonstration.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
MURDERED HER MISTRESS.
Negro Girl Confcsses When Pleaccd
Under Arrest.

Negro Girl Confcsses When Pleaccd
Under Arrest.
Wearing a silk underskirt and 9TH
er clothing of her dead mistress, Clara
Barrow, a negro girl about Is years
of age was Friday placed under ar
rest in New Orleans. and confessed 70
having murdered Mrs. Bessie Carter
at the latter's residence in the French
quarter.
The girl, who had long been en-
lployed as a maid at Mrs. Carriers, was
the first to give the alarm, and was
by the police soon after they
began an investigation. When put
through a sweating process she
broke down and acknowledged that it
was she who had inflicted with a
Ratchet the CHASTITY wounds in Mrs,
neck and head.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
HURON MUST SETTLE.
DriIIcrs Didn't Get Water But Struck
BED Rock.

The city of Huron entered into a
contract with well drillers for an ar
tesian well. According to the terms
of the contract the well drillers were
either to get water or strike bed rock
in order to secure any money. They
worked night and day for five months,
and finally their progress was check
ed. They came to the conclusion that
they had struck bed rock, and so no.
titled Huron's council members. The
latter could not see it that way. Fin
ally both parties agreed to submit
samples Of the material washed out
to Geologist E. c. Perisho, of the
state university at Veraillion. The
professor announced that the drillers
are right, and the letter from Huron
states that the latter will stand by
his report.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
Compensation for Brotherhood.

Women of all sorts and conditions at
tended the recent National Union OF
Women Workers at London, England, to
discuss plans for their betterment, n
to protest against wage discrimination on
account of sex. 1t was decided that the
trades unions could not help the unsklll-
ed women workers, because it is too ex-
pensive to maintain such organizations.
1t was agreed hat nothing could be ex-
pected from the individual employer, and
that State Intervention was their only
salvation. Some of the leading spirits
urged that working women should avoid
marriage until after the age of 20 at
least, thereby lessening the size of lam
lilies and allowing time for more COM
plete equipment for the duties Of wife
hood and motherhood. One speaker was
greeted with enthusiasm when she urged
a definite plan for the payment of moth
erhood, which, she said, was the only
form of industry now unpaid.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
Gold ana SILVER Production.

The production of gold in this country,
according to the report of the director of
the mint for the year 1906, was 1914 4
600, az compared with SSS. 1SAToO for
the preceding year. the principal gain be-
ing in Alaska and Nevada. In Colorado
there was a decrease of So, 100, 700. The
total production of silver was 56,517. 300
ounces q the commercial value of s.
256,40O, as against Sc, 1o1, 600 IN the pre-
ceding year. TIL average price of silver
vas $O.61O27.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
DEsEETERs ARE CAUGHT.
Two Men Who left Army arc Now in
DealWtpOd Jail.

Accompanied by a girl said to be
but Is years old, Frank G. DUNCAN,
s: deserter from Fort Mead, was plac-
ed under arrest by Sheriff Trathen at
Deadwood and will probably have to
face the charge of a serious crime as
well as the wrath of Uncle Sam. The
pair We're caught at a local rooming
house. where they We're posing as
man and wife, and the officers are
10 e~ndeavoring to communicate
with the girls father, who is a ranch
err neal Sturgis. Albert Schroeder,
another deserter who left the Sixth
cavalry the same time DUNCAN did,
was captured near the Wyoming bor-
der line n is also in Jail at Dead
wood.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
GID. Is BEING PUT ON.
Reform Wave Sweeps Owe Towns
West OF Chamberlain.


West Of Chamberlain.
The towns out west of Chamberlain.
on the reservation are getting the lid
put on good and tight even for the
smaller vices. Gambling of a public
nature has been tabooed long ago
and the sheriff of Lyman county has
just made a trip through Presho,
Kennebec, Draper n Vivian and has
ordered tina the slot machines in all
the store be taken out, and the alacri-
ty with which they responded to his
demand was surprising when hereto
fore SO little attention was paid to this
small vice. The conditions of morality
through all the towns from Oacoma
to Murdo a been completely reno
waited in the past few years and If
some of the bad men of a former day
We're to drop into IN of the localities
they would think they had struck a
Sunday school in comparison to what
1t was.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-22
REDUCED OUTPUT OF GOLD.
Fire in Homestal<e Mine the Chief
Factor.

The annual report of State Mine
Inspector Treweek, which has just
been filed with the governor, fails to
show a detailed statement Of the gold
production of the state for the past
year, but places it at considerably
less than for last year." and that the
production of the Homestake mine at
10000 900 less, which he ascribes to the
mine fire, which practically stopped
operations, in thai mine for a long
time. While he does not give the
strike in other mines as a cause of
the reduced output, thai factor had
a great deal to do with it, as the strike
practically stopped operations in many
Of them for the first half of the sum-
mer, The total production of last
year as shown by the report was So
9S6. 900, of which $5,250,0O0 was the
output of the Homestake mine.