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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-11-27
THANKSGIVING ATTRACTION EX-
TRAORDINARY.
Thursday, November a6th, CDR. Jekyll
and Mr.. HYDE"

oAO AAAs AyuS'
When Robt. Louis Stevenson wrote
the strange story OF DR.. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde he was not sure If he dare
have it published, but when the first
edition was placed ON the market it
was sold out In few days. The
dramatist eagerly grasped the book
and a dozen versions were immed-
lately produced. The strongest and
best was the Mansfield version, which
will be presented at CANTON on
THURSDAY, NOV. Goth. There is
certain subtle, indefinable some
thing that holds the spectator from
the rise to the fall of the curtain, and
in spite of the great improbability Of
the plot, the audience forgets all that,
and finds itself wondering If it IS i'm
possible, and each time the spasm OF
pain crosses the noble face Of DIR.
Jekyll foretelling the coming OF the
monster Hyde. The audience in
breathless silence watches the trans
formation, forgetting that it Is a
piece of stage illusion and seeing only
one man changed to another before
their very eyes. AS the play proceeds
he begins to feel sympathy for DR..
Jekyll and to hate the demon Hyde,
forgetting that all of DR.. Jekyll's
troubles were caused by his defying
God. The company presenting the
play is a strong one, and the dual role
of DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde will be
nterpre ted by Theodore Lorch.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-11-27

thing soldier could have done.
That as good trap was laid for Reno
as for Custer, but he got out Of it.
That the theory that Custer dis
mounted his men and fought them in
order was prepOSterOus. That Gus
ter's men seemed paralyzed and put
up no serious resistance. He ac-
counted for the fact that the bodies
of the men and horses we're not to-
gether on the ground that the first
vOlley was fired from rest and with
good aim and the men fell from the
horses which run back and were
killed in the general fusilade that fol-
lowed. That under no circumstance
could Reno have reached Custer be-
fore he was destroyed, but that the
Indians had looked out that the two
battalions should not support each
other by leaving eight hundred war
riors to keep Reno busy.
Gall and Rain in the Face had prev
iouSly told me the same story. In
addition to Wakutemane, | inter-
viewed several other very excellent
witnesses this summer, separately,
and all corroborated what he said :,
especially One Bull, the son of Sitting
Bull.
l regret that l have not been able
to visit the battle field. There is a
dispute about the distance from
Reno's entertainments to the Custer
field, but at the Reno court martial
the undisputed testimony was that it
was twelve miles. The Indians say
ten miles. General Terry said in his
report about three miles, but from
the testimony of every one l have
seen it was much further than Terry
thought it to be.
The Indians explain the gun fire
which Reno heard at six o'clock on
the evening of the 25th as being a
general celebration which they we're
having over their victory.
While gave my version as simply
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Steer Taken Up.

Taken up on my premises Novem-
ber 8, one red yearling steer. The
owner is requested to call and pay ex-
penses and remove the same.
John Benz.
22-24 Canton, S. D.
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other lawyer who has in recent years
been in full charge of a case so i'm.
portant as the Thaw trial, Mr.. Little
ton will be eagerly watched during his
conduct of that trial. His friends say
that his experience as prosecuting
attorney in Texas and in Brooklyn will
greatly aid him in his fight, and they
predict that the pitting of his ability
against the cool, unerring methods of
District Attorney Jerome will furnish
one of the most interesting contests of
its kind seen in New York in many
years.
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ONCE TRACK WALKER,
NOW GREAT LAWYER
The Career Of Martin w. Littleton
Selected Leading Counsel for Harry X Thaw, 1t Is
Predicted That District Attorney jerome Will Find
in Him Worthy Opponent at Coming Trial.

that Littleton went to Weatherford.
county, in the eastern part of Tennes-
see, 30 years ago last January, and
when just a youngster was taken by
his father to Weatherford. After a
stay of a few years there the elder
Littleton decided to move back to
Tennessee, but the son. then under 16
years of age, declined to accompany
him. He preferred Texas. Even at
that tender age he had begun to dream
of a life in New York city. The idea
of studying law hadn't occurred to
him, but he was determined to get
in the midst of things" and to make
his way at something.
Worked and Studied Law.
Dependent on his own efforts after
his father moved back to Tennessee
he did odd jobs about Weatherford
for time and then, for want of
something to do, obtained a job as
trackwalker. 1t wasn't the sort of
work he preferred. but he wasn't par
ticular and he stuck to it for several
months. 1t was during this servitude
that ambition to become a lawyer
seized him. His ready wit and his
ability to say things better than the
other men on the road caused some
of his associates to suggest the law
to him.
BY way OF shortening his path some
what to his chosen field he left the
railroad and got job as devil" in
the office OF the Park County News,
which was published in Weatherford.
He didn't like ink and pressroom ETH
quette. so after short term here he
got job as bakers helper. Mixing
dough and reading law didn't prove as
delightful a combination as he had
hoped and he resumed his old job of
trackwalker because 1t gave him plen.
ty of time to study nights and to think
about his studies during the daytime.
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New York.-It was back in 1883
when the following dialogue took place
between the foreman of a little rail
road down in Texas and rosy
checked, smiling young trackwalker
whose good nature and ready tongue
had earned him reputation extend
ing clear across Texas township.
You're pretty bright young man, "
said the foreman. Il suppose some day
you expect to be the conductor of a
freight train, don't you?"
mo, sir" replied the trackwalker,
Il never expect to be that"
You don't? You ought to aspire to
hope to be?"
81 expect to be big lawyer in New
Yok city"
After the foreman had recovered
from his laughter he said:
Pretty far cry from trackwalker to
a metropolitan lawyer, isn't it?"
Eyes, sir, but no farther than from
rail splitter to president"
Martin w. Littleton was the rosy
checked trackwalker. A few years
later when the whole country was
ringing with his speech at the st.
Louis national convention in which
he nominated Alton b. Parker for the
presidency, Mr.. Littleton went back
to his old corner of Texas, and met
the railroad foreman who had sketched
out for him the brilliant future of a
freight conductor.
Part of Ambition Realized.
We'll, Martin" said the foreman,
you've changed some since | was
your boss, amt your"
I'm older"
And you're big New York lawyer
too, amt your"
We'll, l don't know about the big
but I'm New York lawyer, anyhow
1t probably caused some talk down
in Texas, when it was learned that
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WILLIAM TpANER5 JERoM.

Mart" Littleton had been selected as
chief counsel for Harry X. Thaw. 1t
caused some in New York. While he
has been recognized for several years
as an able trial lawyer, he has not
been prominently identified with the
criminal branch of his profession, al
though he has been many times ad-
vised that he could become supreme
In that field If he would enter 1t.
His success since he left his old
home in Texas has been almost phe-
nomenal, and it has been due largely
to these gs-determination, af-
liability of manner, gift of oratory
and conclseness of expression. There
are few men in New York who can
excel him in making "A plea before a
jury; there are fewer who can make a
more pleasing after-dinner speech;
there are few who can equal him in
clearly stating a complex proposition;
there is none who can excel him in
dealing a telling verbal blow at an OPP
perfume time. And. added to II all,
he is thorough student of the law,
He is an expert at cross-examination
is fighter for what he thinks is right
and he has a forceful way with a jury.
Became Famed as Orator.
Back in his boyhood days in Texas
he was known as an orator and story
teller. He could recite all the old
fifth reader masterpieces with fire
that stirred the boys" In the village
store, and, short time later, when he
was active in politics but not old
enough to vote, he could rouse the
old timers down in Weatherford TO
bursts of applause with his oratorlcal
efforts.
1t was due to no choice of his own
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MAN S LIFE SAVED
BY WIFE'S GHOST
APPARITibN APPEARS TO NEW
JERSEY FARMER AND uTTERs
WORDS OF WARNING.
DETAINED ON ROAD ALL NIGHT
Horse Trembles and Refuses to Pro.
coed Home-Finds on Returning
That Enemy Had Been Lying
In Wait.

New York That a whispered warn.
ing in the dark by the ghost of his dead
wife saved him from death by assas
sination is the belief of Charles Henry
Durand, farmer living In the hills
near Caldwell, N. J. His strange story
is being used as a clew by the au.
thorities. Durand says that late the
other night as he was driving home
from Paterson his horse stopped In
the road and began to tremble. In
vain he urged the animal to proceed.
1t would not bulge.
Suddenly the air became oppres-
sive and faint light like distant heat
lightning appeared. Then gradually
amid the dim flashes n white figure as
sumed vague form beside the wagon.
Durand himself commenced to quake.
He tried to get out of the buggy, but
his limbs refused to obey his will
After an interval the apparition In
white spoke in a whisper. He recog-
nized In fear and trembling the voice
of his dead wife.
There Is danger at home. Stay
away till morning" the voice said.
Cold chills crept over Durand.
Scarcely had the supernatural warn.
ing been uttered when the ghost van
ished. 1t took the farmer some time
to recover his nerve, and then he
found the horse would not take step
forward. He took off the harness, and
after two hours work brought the ami
NAL out of its chill and slowly pro
ceeded homeward. Though badly
scared he did not put much faith in
the warning that had been whispered
to him in such an uncanny way. So
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HORSE INFIRMARY

At the old Oran Lewis corner, on Spring
vile road Spanish Fork, Utah. - Splints,
Bone Spavins and Pipes Of Festals removed
or no pay. - Crippled and lame horses a
speciality. &c All imals examined Tree Of
charge. Look we'll TO your horses teeth, for
from them come many diseases. Live and
let live" is my motto. A. BROWN
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While he was using up tallow
candles In his attacks upon Blackstone
he realized that it might be helpful to
ing in the rudiments. He had never
been inside schoolhouse, although
he had received some instruction at
home and had picked up a good bit
of information on general topics. To
carry out his plan he went to Spring
town, and there for eight months he
did chores and farm work and studied
with an old German who numbered
among his pupils the children of most
of the aristocrats of Parker county.
Entered Attorneys Office.
In the eight months Littleton
learned as much as he felt was neces.
sary for the time being. He could do
fractions as well as any one he could
parse everything that could be parsed;
he could write as fast and as plain as
any boy in the county, and he could
recite better than any actor who had
ever struck Weatherford or any place
in that part of Texas. He knew the
history of the United States like a
book, and he had a pretty good idea
Of the history of other nations, which
in his youthful opinion didn't amount
to much anyhow.
Thus equipped, he entered the office
of the district attorney of Weather
ford county as a clerk and law stu
dent. AS expressed by a man who
knew him in those days, "he fairly ate
the law books" He swept through
them with lightning speed, and in
1891. at the age Of 10, he was admitted
to the bar. He was then one of the
leading young citizens of the county
seat. AS soon as he was admitted to
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practice he hung out his shingle in
Weatherford, and forthwith he began
to win cases in the local courts. The
suavity of manner that distinguished
him proved to be one of his chief as
sets, and the quick wit which gives
him advantage over his opponents at
the present time aided him then in de-
feating his older adversaries. Two
years in Weatherford put him at the
head of the profession there. despite
the fact that he was still beardless
youth who had cast but one vote.
Bright Career in Dallas.
Dallas was the scene of his next en-
deavors. He was unheralded, but 1t
was only short time before he be-
came recognized as lawyer of ability
and boundless ambition. In two years
he became assistant district attorney,
and in that capacity he made a reputa-
ton as prosecutor which extended
pretty well all over Texas. HIS grasp
of criminal law was described as re-
markable and his handling of jury
was said to be little short of mar
velous. There was just enough of the
old southern fire In his oratory to
make iuries bow before him.
During his career in Dallas he was
constantly fondling his ambition to
come to New York. He had never
been east of the Texas line since his
father had moved over from Tonnes
see, and he had never met more than
a half dozen men from the metropolis.
But, he had read of 1t and dreamed of
it and he was determined to make a
clean jump across the continent as
soon as he could scrape together
enough money to pay the expenses of
himself and-of Mrs. Littleton.
Winning Wife.
There wasn't any Mrs. Littleton at
that time, but he was determined there
should be. 1t has been said that the
greatest oratorical effort of his life
was that put forth when he induced
his wife to marry him, give up her lux
urious home in Texas, and come to
New York with him. He had made a
splendid success as lawyer, but had
little money; ne had no friends in New
York, and not even suggestion that
he might obtain work. Mr.. and Mrs.
Littleton, nevertheless, babe goodbye
to Dallas in 1896 and a short time
later arrived in the city, which the
youthful bridegroom-he was then but
"a years old--had dreamed of conquer
ing.
The young lawyer. despite his Texas
laurels, did not make the strides here
he had made in the southwest, but he
was neither surprised nor dispap-
pointed. He sought work in the Of
fees of various lawyers and finally OBJ
tanned position with the firm of
Peck e Field. Later he found a place
with Sheehan & Collins. Still later he
became attorney for the Brooklyn
Heights Railway company, and it was
while there that his star began to
rise. He attracted attention in the
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He Recognized His Dead Wife.

long had Durand been delayed by his
adventure that 1t was daylight when
he reached his farmhouse, which is in
a lonely location.
Putting the horse In the stable
Durand entered the dwelling. He no
ticed that a window on the ground
floor which he had fastened was I'M
latched. Next he discovered muddy
footprints ON the floor. As he was
about to go into his room upstairs he
saw a string stretched across the
open doorway, near the floor. 1t was
Just high enough to have caught his
foot upon entering. Standing to one
side Durand hooked his umbrella
handle over the string and gave 1t
jerk.
A fash inside the room was accom-
panied by loud report. and a bullet
buried itself in the wall of the hall
way opposite the door. Durand then
ran inside his room and found the bull
let had come from pistol fastened to
the top of his bureau. The trigger had
been connected with string across
the door. The shot would have struck
him in the breast had he touched the
string with his foot in entering the
room.
Durand, who moved here from the
west five years ago, says some one,
whose name he will not divulge, evil
IDENTIFY had lain in wait for him all
night at his home and would have
killed him but for the warning from
his dead wife's spirit.
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Live Mouse Inside Cat.

Appleton. Wis,-In an attempt to es
cape from her clutches a mouse
jumped into the open mouth of a cat
owned by Prof. c. w. Treat of Law
renee university. Frightened at the
unexpected turn of events, the cat
gulped down the little animal, which,
according TO Prof Treat, remained
alive in the cats stomach for some
time after. For more than an hour the
cat was in evident distress.
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involved in Big" Cases.

trial courts and was regarded as a
conner" in criminal law
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It's Chief Use.

These" said the inventor proudly,
ARE photographs Of the finest aero
plane the world has yet SEEN"
We studied the remarkable-looking
object.
And how is it supposed to workT'
we asked.
oh" he rejoined, 1T isn't supposed
to work at all; but you can see what
splendid newspaper and magazine
articles It will make"
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Involved in big" Cases.
In 1899 he was made an assistant
district attorney of Kings county, and
while serving in that capacity he had
charge of some of the most notable
cases in the borough across the bridge.
He prosecuted Five Hundred and
Twenty Per Cent" Miller and was
chief prosecutor in many other prom.
inent cases. And during all this time
he was gradually earning a reputation
as an orator and after-dinner speaker.
He attracted particular attention be-
cause he was of different school
from his competitors. He brought
east with him a southern charm of
manner that invariably made friends
for him.
His real debut as an orator came
during the campaign of 1900, in the old
Academy of Music, in Brooklyn.
known as man who could make a
fair speech, he was put down on the
programme as one of the tailenders.
Three Democrats of national promi.
nence were scheduled for the chief ad-
dresses. and David b. Hill was her.
aided as the principal attraction. When
his turn came Mr.. Littleton--then a
man of but 2S years-created a sensa-
ton from the start. 1t is no exag-
geration to say that he really cleo
trified the audience. His speech was
short clear and to the point, and his
eloquence stirred the crowd to storms
of applause. Instead Of leaving the
hall everyone stayed and still others
damned their way in.
Littleton became known outside of
Brooklyn after that. 1t was that effort,
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bedrooms Without Windows.

It has been reported TO the Camil
ford district council in England that
at house in st. Cleather two OF the
occupied bedrooms have no windows
but only open apertures, 1t was stat
ed that the house was very clean and
that no person had died there recently
until 80 years OF age, and some were
80. The council decided to call on
the owners to put windows In each
room.
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Mrs. Evans, Claim

Mrs. Evans, of Richmond-on-
Thames, England, claims she is the
only woman entitled to wear the Alma,
Balaclava, and Inkerman medals, per
mission having been granted on the
death of her husband, whom she &C.
companied through the Crimea. She
was often under fire.
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Discovered Prehlstorlc amir

In Spruce canyon, near Gin palace.
Colorado, Prof. e. l.. Hewitt has dis.
covered prehistoric ruin six
stories high, one of the finest examples
of the cliff dwelling ever found.
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in fact, when led TO his selection as
the man to nominate Alton b. Parker
for the presidency at the st. Louis
convention of 1904. William F. Shee-
han heard his Academy of Music
speech, and in looking for some one
to make the supreme effort at the St
Louis convention he suggested Little.
ton.
Studied Address Carefully.
1t is not necessary to recall the SEN
sation caused by Mr. Littleton's speech
recall the preparation made for the
address. Unlike most orators, Mr..
Littleton does not profess to be an
impromptu speaker. He can make an
impromptu speech, but he never does
so If he can help 1t. He prepares his
sentences with great care and then
commits them to memory. In fact, he
does not have to put forth any effort
to memorize them. When he has writ
ten speech he has learned it. He
can repeat it with practically no varia-
ton.
He prepared his st. Louis speech
weeks ahead of time. He rehearsed it
at home, and when he needed a larger
place in which to train his voice he
went out to the cathedral in Garden
City and practised for hours. After he
reached st. Louis he went to the con.
vention hall one Sunday afternoon,
and in the presence of two or three of
his friends went through the speech
| two or three times to get the proper
pitch for his voice. His Grafton
, created sensation and put him In
| stantly in the front rank of American
orators.
Never a Seeker for Office.
Although possessing the attributes of
a successful politician and having po-
litical ambitions, Mr.. Littleton has not
been seeker for office. He was perman
ent chairman of the Democratic state
convention in 1902 and Was borough
president of Brooklyn in 1904 and
| 1905. He was urged to accept renom
nation for borough president, but he
declined. He had two reasons for do
ing so. One was that he wanted to
| ltdNt llt OlllCt Dtlole lie udN DcSu
criticised; the other was that he was,
as he publicly expressed it at the time,
unable to make both ends meet"
He retired from public life to build
up a law practice, and he has been
busily engaged in doing SO ever since
He left Brooklyn couple of years
ago and set UP in Manhattan, and he
has been prominently before the public
since in his legal capacity. In the mat
ter of earnings he is said to rank with
the leading lawyers of the city.
Not yet 36 years of age, he may
truthfully be said to have glowing
future, and his close friends intimate
that it will not be alone in the field of
law. After he has accumulated COM
Portable fortune it is said he may seek
again to re-enter public life.
! Younger by many years than any
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What's the matter q
with | D A H 0 Z

Thousands Of acres of land have
been reclaimed to cultivation by
irrigation in that State during
the past 10 years, Thousands
more will be reclaimed within
the next 10 years. This means
an opening for many thousands
of homes.