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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-09-03
Lodge Directory

7: I !: J : :
Oklahoma Post No. Grand
Army of the Republic.
Meets every 2nd and i;h Sat
mIl urday of the month at 200
p. m. Visiting comrades
W welcome.
SYA JR QUINN, Com.
|. :. DRuMMoND, Adj
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-09-03

A deaf man was walking on the rail-
road track with friend when an en-
gine rounded curve from behinn and
opened its whistle full blast. The deaf
man smiled and turning to his friend
said: Listen; that's the first robin
I've heard this spring"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-09-03

The rainbow is but the clouds and
sunshine of every day, just far enough
away to be marvelously beautiful.
Seeming prosaical things, common and
near Mt hand, may Le thus glorified.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-09-03

Take thy self denials gaily and
cheerfully, and let the sunshine OF
thy gladness fall on dark things and
bright things alike. Thus may you be
doubly blessed.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-09-03
Railroad Time Table
Church and Society Directory.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Services every Sunday morning and
evening. Sunday School at 1000 n. m.
w. b. LEONARD, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH
Services every Sunday morning and
evening. Sunday School at 10 O'Clock.
JAS. BALLINGER. Pastor.
LADIES' CIRCLE
Auxiliary to Presbyterian Church
meets every Thursday afternoon at the
homes of the members Entcrtains
the public first Thursday night of each
month. Everybody invited.
Mrs. w. h. LEONARD, Pres.
LADIES GUILD
Auxiliary to NJ, +. Church, meets
every Wednesday afternoon with the
members.
MRs J. ID. NILES. Pres.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24
San Jacinto Day.

Austin, Tex, April 21.-San ia
cinto Day, is being observed through
out Texas today, celebrations and
meetings having been arranged by
patriotic societies in nearly all cities
and towns. Business is generally
suspended and all banks and public
offices are closed, as this is a legal
holiday in Texas.
San Jacinto Day commentaries
the victory of General Sam Houston
and his army of $50 men over the
main division Of the Mexican army,
l,S00 strong, or the banks of the
~Sanjacinto river, april 2l, 1886. This
battle was the last blow in the bat
tie for the freedom of the Texas re-
public. The Americans rushed into
the battle shouting. Remember the
Alamo!' and hurled themselves
against the stronger Mexican ranks
with fury that was issestible. In
less than an hour the Mexicans were
utterly routed; $50 of them being
slain and $50 more captured. Santa
Ana vas taken prisoner and Houston
had difficulty in restraining the vic
tors from tearing the barbarous gen.
eral to pieces.
Washington, April 21.-Texas
members of congress will join with
the Texas Society of Washington N
an elaborate celebration of SANTA
cinto day this evening.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24
A New Federation Of Labor,

A new collection of labor soci-
cites and one which is to participate
actively in politics, has just been
projected in Chicago. 1t will con-
sist of the Western Federation of
Miners the United Mine Workers,
the Confectioner's and Bakers I'm
ion, the Brewery Workers Union
and other organizations. Some f
these have been for years affiliated
| with the American Federation OF la
Dor, but they are now to appear in a
new coalation. The unions which
propose to affiliate say they have
100000 members. The finishing
touches are to be put on the new fed
Grafton early in July.
The immediate interest which the
public will have in the new organ
ization lies in the fact that it pro-
poses to nominate a presiden-
tial ticket, and to put candidates for
Congress in the field in many states.
The leading spirit in the movement
is w. ID. Haywood, who was recently
a high official in the Western FEEDER
alton of Miners, and who was tried
on Harry Orchards confession, and
acquitted. Report had it that he
was to be the Socialist party's can
didate for president in 1908. AS
the Western Federation of Miners,
however, is a socialist organization,
and as some of the unions which are
uniting with it in the new federation
also lean toward the socialist side,
it is possible that Haywood, in his
new Federation movement, may
start a party that will count for
something in the voting.
From the present outlook 1908
viii see more national organizations
II consequence than any previous
4mpaign has had. In addition to
he Two big parties, there are the
p%niists. who nominated a ticket
y ST. Louis last week, the ProhiDi-
;%@n:sts, who will put up a ticket in
Columbus, Ohio, on July Is, the
Hearst Independent League, or Ma
tional party, which will meet some
time in July, and the new Haywood
federation party. 1t is altogether
possible that the Haywood organiza-
ton may absorb one of the Social
list parties, that which Debs led in
1900 and 1904, and which gave
Debs 1902 900 votes in the latter year
Debs is supporting Haywood this
year. From present appearances the
Populists, the Prohibitionists, the
Hearst party and the Haywood ag-
gregation will each be large enough
TO command some attention from the
country. The campaign of 1908
promises to give something for ev-
cry American citizen to think of
from the nomination of the repub-
lican and the democratic ticket on
ward to the casting and the count
ing Of the votes on November 8.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24
Our Neglected Heroes.

1t is rather strange that will all
the national remembering of the past
fifteen years there are still several
famous Americans aforementioned.
1t might have been better, certainly
of more lasting quality, if the nu-
merous expositions, some of which
have failed SO pitifully, had been
centered upon suitable monuments
for national heroes.
That subscription to the monu-
ment of Alexander Hamilton,
amounting to 500, 900, is being COL
lected, reveals the fact that this chief
constructive statesman of all Ameri-
can history has been left with the
simple stone that marks his grave in
Trinity church yard, looking down
Wall Street.. And yet Hamilton has
always had, will always have, a mon
ument which no other American can
equal, ever the monument Of the
federal government. 1t is fitting
that his grave stone should domi-
nate Wall street, since his intellect
dominated the financial develop
ment Of the United States; and it is
we'll that this new monument, should
be placed in Washington near the
treasury building, where the superb
foresight of Hamilton still operates.
But, after all, his influence covered
a larger development, and at this
time when the federal idea is the
prevailing idea, it is Hamilton who
still dominates the American nation.
Perhaps the n of his death has
delayed such memorial. The Nc
Kinley M%artyrdom was of a different
sort, and the hundred thousand dol
lar monument is in place in less than
eight years after his death. There
will be no memorial to Czolgosz,
but we doubt that a counter sub
scription in memory of Aaron Burr
will be gathered in, and perhaps Mr..
Charles Pidgin, who has devoted.
half a dozen books to Mr.. Burr's
story, will devote also the proceeds
of these books to a monument. AT
this time when we have unveiled
memorials to Lee and to Davis there
cannot be asserted any prejudice.
And as a neglected opportunity
for such memorializing we should
suggest the grave of John Tyler
President Tyler, in .ae graveyard a
Richmond, lying near the elaborate
James Monroe monument, but un
marked by even a single stone, mark
ed only by a magnolia tree. 1t i
passing strange that this scion O
t enc of the leading families OF Vir
ginia, who became first citizen in tn
2 larger land, should be absolutel,
: unhonored by his countrymen. A
} one time the women Of the SoutI
had a monument to Tyler under con
] s~ideration, but they hav ebeen bus
d led with later heroes, like Lee an
d Davis. And certainly the director
t Of the exposition at Jamestow
8 might have busted themselves to bel
t ter advantage in collecting fund
t for such a monument. Surely !
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24
Nav Make Trouble.

According to a decision of Attor-
ney General Pyle rendered under a
former charge of school law in
this state. and the provisions of the
school law of last winter, there is
material for a GREAT deal of trouble
in the matter of the selection of
teachers in this state for the next
school year.
Under the old system with two
members Of the board of education
selected from each ward in the city,
half the membership changed each
year, and the board was a continu-
ing one. Under these conditions it
has become the custom of the boards
10 select their teachers early in the
year, on the grounds that the teach
ais desire to know as early as posi-
bic what they might expect for the
next year, and on the further ground
THAI the old board was in a better
position to know which of the old
teaching force they desired to re-
tain, than would the newcomers.
Under the provisions of section
179 of the new law, the old boards
are now wiped out, and a board of
five members to be selected at large
takes their place. This provision
leaves no continuing board, and pro-
vides an entirely new organization
for the control of the schools. The
date of election is also changed from
that of the regular city election to
the third Tuesday in June.
In this selection of a complete new
board is where the trouble is likely
to show up. Old boards over the
state are following the usual custom
and making the selection Of the
teaching force for the next school
year, which will be entirely outside
of their jurisdiction, and an inquiry
to Attorney General Clark in regard
to their right brings a reference to
an opinion by Attorney General Pyle,
in 1899, in which he holds: The
school year begins July of each year,
and, if during the life of the old
board, teachers were employed for
the coming year, the board which
had the right to control and man
age the school would be prevented
from employing such teachers. Ac-
cordingly it has been held that the
school board acting in good faith with
the district, a make a contract for
the service Of a teacher where the
term commenced during the life of
the board hiring such teachers, but
cannot make a contract for the teach
ing of a term which begins during
the term of their successors"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24
Business Outlook.

Bradstreet's summary of trade and
industrial conditions in early April
shows that industries are still tagging
and trade is below the average Of
spring trade for a EumDer of years.
The abandonment of work by thous-
ands of coal miners has also had a
detrimental effect. The money mar
ket is well supplied with loanable
funds but the demand by borrowers
is unusually light which is taken TO
indicate that not many new enter
prises are being launched up to the
present time. The clearing house
statistics indicate a shrinkage of over
one-fourth in the general business of
the country compared with the anne
period a year ago, all OF which how
ever, can be largely explained by the
%pervading deep interest in national
politics and in the proposed legisla-
ton of congress which has a bearing
and a strong one upon financial and
industrial business. When men are
deeply engrossed in politics, as is
luS CdSc llIo NSai, lhC aiS ACu "
neglect business, and this widespread
interest in the candidates and in the
approaching election is actually en-
gaging persona. efforts of tens OF
thousands of business men to the
partial neglect of their business. Pol,
itics and business have come to be
closely associated in the minds o,
the most aggressive men in the coun'
try, hence they are making it thetl
business to see that the political par
ties are safely manned by ecnserya
tive and competent crews.
Finger Print Signatures.
F~inger-rrint registration, which i
being resented by British Indians il
the Transvaal, is in some respects
very ancient practice in Asia. In oil
Japan he mikado sealed document
of state by smearing his forefnge
with vermillion ink and pressing
on the paper. To prevent passport
being transferred the Chinese wrot
the permission to travel on All >ile
paper bearing a print of the bearer
palm Of the hand. Deeds disposin
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24

of land We're similarly stamped by
the vendors thumb. In India as long
ago as 1860 Sir William Herschel in
stituted a system of fngerprints at
Hooghly as the directest and most
certain way of Identifying the parties
in the transfer of land in Bengal and
if preventing them from false per-
sonation Or reputation Of the bar
gain by requiring them to atiX their
finger prints to the entries in the
land register.
1t was Sir William Herschel's use
of this old oriental practice which
led Francis Gallon to take up the
study of finger prints as a mean of
identification twenty years ago. By
research and the examination of
thousands of finger prints Mr.. Gallon
raised the practice into science, and
first drew public attention to its pos
sibilities by an article in the Nine
1eenth Century in 1891. A few years
later it was adopted by both the
government and post office of India
as a means Of establishing identif-
cation beyond dispute, a matter of
the utmost difficulty among the ma
tives, whose faces always appear as
as two peas to European eyes.
Military and civil pensioners must
now finger print the receipts for
their pensions and the impression
must correspond with that in the
register before payment is made.
Medical certificates are similarly
rendered useless to bearer, and can
didates sitting for civil service ex-
aminations must finger print each
set OF papers they nand in. Indians
migrating under the labor act also
impress their thumb on their engage
ment contracts, and pilgrims setting
out for Mecca are also given an iden-
tity they cannot deny.-London
Daily Chronicle.J
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24

waukee road and also was a member
of the party making side trips TO
Deadwood, Lead, Spearfsh and
Sturgis. He left the excursionists
on the return to Rapid City.
Mr.. Palmer believes that Sioux
City is going to be greatly benefited
by the visit of the representatives
of its jobbing interests. Mr.. Palmer
said the journey to Spearish was
one Of the most pleasurable fea-
lures. The party, Ae said, was
royalty entertained at Deadwood and
also at Lead. At Belle Fourche. ne
said, members of the party were
taken for boat rides on the river
and observed the work being done
in irrigating the district. At Stur-
gis the party was met by officers of
the army post at Fort Meade and
taken to the fort in army vehicles,
where an exhibition drill was wit
messed.
On the side trips out of Rapid
City, Mr.. Palmer said, the "boos-
ters' were accompanied by Frank
Walters, general manager OF the
Northwestern road for the territory
west Of the Missouri river, his pri-
vate car being attached to the
boosters" special.
Commercial CLUB boosters were
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24

kept busy relating incidents Of the
trip. The stories we're listened to
with the greatest interest by the
boosters who could not go.
The generous response of the
party to an appeal to assist a family
which had been made destitute by
the prairie fire of Thursday was re-
garded as characteristic of the Sioux
City way. This family consisted of
the father and mother and twelve
children.
The fire, which ragged over the
prairie between Huron and Pierre,
swept away their little home, Their
barn and team of horses, and left
them destitute. They barely escaped
with their lives. This story was told
to the boosters, anda chorus OF voices
suggested that the party help
them. Walter S. Knapp and Thomas
Dealtry passed the hat, and in Just
time enough for them to walk
through the train they collected
1852, almost $3.50 per man. Feel
ing that this amount OF money would
do more good at the time than a
larger sum would later, the bank at
Rec Heights was notified that it had
been collected and draft was pur-
chased at Huron and sent by the first
mail.@SiouX City Journal.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24
Danger to the Party.

The schism in the republican par
ty in this state is bordering the point
where it threatens the success of the
party at the polls. The aspiring an
didates for state office and those
ambitious for power should stop and
consider the welfare of the party be-
fore taking such further steps as
may result in bringing defeat at the
polls. Prior to 1906 the republican
majority in this state was thought
to be impossible to overcome. In
the early spring of that year a split
occurred in the party and in Novem-
Der the majority of the republican
state ticket vas defeated. The feel
ing in the party at that time was
mild as compared with the feeling
that exists between the factions in
the party at this time. This is illus
trated by the holding of two meet
ings in this city this evening, both
public and both held in different
halls, addressed by different speak
ers and both supposed to be repub-
lican rallies. One has for it's pur-
rcse, the meeting in the auditorium
TIE denunciation of Senator Kit.
/ redge. This meeting will be con,
trclled by the insurgents. The Other
meeting will be addressed by Sen
ator Kittredge and men who recog.
nize the republican party after its
defeat of 1906 and who safely pi
loted the party through every cam
, sa:gn in the history of the part.
~ c Il was led to defeat by the mel
w&c arc now among the chief lead
rs CT this quasi democratic-populis
at':i.1t.as,cn which now is il
cwe.' in SoItl Dakota. It was tim
THAT sorle one cal-ei a halt and in
sttad Or following the leaders VIII
olacc personal ambition above part
success, sound al alarm which wi,
bring the people to their senses an
cause them to return to safe an
sane leadership. During the las
t~wenty-four hours the writer ha
heard dozen %so-called insurger
republicans, now in attendance q
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24
Contest Notice,

Department of the interior, United
States Land Office, Rapid City, S. d.,
March 18th, 1908.
A sufficient contest affidavit having
been filed in this office by Charles A..
Schimberg, contestant, against Askel
Nygaard, entry No. 1852, made
August 10th, 1906, for the north
half of the northwest quarter of
Section II, and the south OF the
southwest quarter Of section 8, town.
ship l south, range 9 east, B. II. M,
by Askel Nygaurd Contestee, in
which it lis alleged that ASKED Ny
gard has never established residence
or placed amy improvements thereon
and has wholly abandoned the same
for more than six monts last past and
service i'm the Army or the Navy
of the United States. Said parties
II hereby notified to appear, respond
and offer evidence touching said allie
gation at 10 O'Clock a. m. on May 5,
1908, before THE Register and Re-
ceiver at the United States Land office
in Rapid City. 8. D.
The said contestant, having in
proper affidavit, filed March 20, 1908,
set forth facts which show that after
due diligence personal service OF this
notice camnpt be made, it is hereby
ordered and directed that such notice
be given due and proper publication.
j. L.Burke, Register.
Myron Whsle, Receiver.
T,o-,hrIa-o ~ s-
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24
Daughters of Revolution.

Washington, April 20.-That the
seventeenth continental congress of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, opened here today, will be the
largest in attendance and the most
representative ever held by that body
is already evident. Delegations ar
rived yesterday and this morning
from all parts of the country and
every train brings additions to the
number. All of the sessions, which
will continue throughout the week,
will be held in Continental Memorial
Hall. Most Of the officials have es-
tablished headquarters at the New
Willard Hotel. Several entertain
ments and concerts will be given by
local members.
According to officials, the National
Society now has a membership OF
nearly $4,000, with $50 chapters in
forty-fve states and territories, with
branches in England, Cuba and the
| Philippines. Ale society has $16,-
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24
An irresponsible Conflict.

There is now a democratic party,
as for twelve years past, a funda-
mental trouble that has not been
settled, but that will have to be
cleared away some day with a Sc
we're wrench of the party. 1t may
be possible during another quadren-
NAL period to edge around the mat
ter and defer the final trial of
strength, but it must come at last
according to the nature OF human
affairs. A large number of demo-
Gratis have never been reconciled to
Mr.. Bryan and his populistic theo-
r1es and never will be. The hesitate
to break away definitely, hoping
that something will occur to end
Bryan and his spell on the party,
or that the maj himself will weak
en- in his remarkable persistency,
but no relief of this kind is in sight
at present. Prominent democrats
are reluctant to try for the nomin-
alton, knowing that if they should
get it they would suffer the fate of
Parker, as there is no doubt that
Bryan would knife them in the cam
paign and at the polls in the same
fashion.
Bryan was beaten in 1896 by
100000 and in 1900 by 100000,
Through the detection of the Bryan
support Parker was overwhelmed
by 100000. These are the horns
of the dilemma. Defeat awaits the
party either way. But it does not
seem to realize that it must tear
loose from Bryan positively before it
can hope to command confidence in
the national field. This sundering
must inevitably come, but when or
how does not appear at this time.
Perhaps another defeat will bring it
about, but that Bryan will never vol
UNFAIRLY let go of the party or genu-
inely support any man for president
whom he could not name or control
is improbable. When the party sum-
mons courage enough to defy his
leadership and act for itself it will
bring the situation to a point. No
doubt it will be stormy, but storms
clear the Observation-Disclosures
crat.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24

the state convention say that they
will vote for Andy Lee before they
will support A. B. Kittredge. This
feeling predominates in the ranks Of
the insurgents, and evidently it does
or delegates to a state convention
would not give expression to it.
Things have come to a pretty state
of affairs and the time has come for
every mar who is loyal to republi-
can principles to rise up and demand
that the present reform admins
tration be relegated to the rear ere
it leads the party to a Waterloo in
November.-HNron Huronite.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-24
900 in the treasury and $4,000

900 in the treasury and $4,000 IN
the building fund.
The election Of president general
does not take place until next year,
but there is already much interest in
the prospects of Mrs. Donald Mclean,
the present incumbent, obtaining a
third term. At the last years con-
gress the friends of the president
general tried to get through an
amendment allowing a third term,
but were unsuccessful, and as it is
impossible to pass on any amend
ments in election year, and an
amendment must be presented a
year before it is passed on, some
other means must be found of bridg-
ing the situation.