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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03

The column had halted at the end
OF It's first days ride and was %bivouack-
Ing in a corn field. The camp fires had
been lighted and the air was redolent.
with the DIOR of noodle soup. The
bugles had sounded for the serving of
rations. Even the pickets had come
into camp for grub.
without warning the bushwhackers
rose up out of the fodder shocks and
the fence corners with one combined
rush they swept down upon Major Jo-
seph's soup line and captured it. The
colonel of the bushwhackers, a former
school teacher, and his staff appeared
simultaneously, as the major reported
1t to his superior officer, before the
majors shack and demanded his IA
lions.
The colonel saluted the major and
begged his pardon for the intrusion.
He said he and his men had 0 come
to fight, but they We're almighty hungry,
II the odor of the noodle soup had
made them furious.
IF permitted to have their fill they
would retire in good order and the
major could do likewise. If the major
wanted fight, he could have it, but they
were not there with any hostile inten-
lions. other than those mentioned.
THE major was virtually a prisoner.
He submitted gracefully and asked the
colonel and his staff to be his guests
as long as the grub held out. The
colonel regretted to say that he and his
staff would need all there was, n as
the major could go back to town and
get more, they would have to sweep the
board.
"They devoured every morsel. When
the repast was finished the colonel's
eye fell on the majors spyglass; he
allowed thai as the government had
plenty on hand and the article was
scarce in the Confeder,acy he would
have to take it. The major removed
the field glass from his uniform and
handed it over.
The major was then politely re-
quested to send word to his men in
camp that they were to allow the Wis
itors to depart in peace. b This was
done. and the bushwhackers scattered
as only b~ushwhackers know how to do.
Major Joseph broke camp that night
and returned to the city before day
break. 1t was his last scouting expedi-
ton from that post. He was ordered
to the front soon after, and, I believe,
under the watchful eye Of his superior
officer, who was an old West Pointer,
he did some creditable fighting until he
was mustered out.
"The story of the bushwhackers' raid
on Major Joseph's noodle soup got to
the headquarters of many commanding
officers, but 1 do not think it ever had
general circulation" - Detroit Free
Press.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
New Uses OF Concrete

The Cement Age says that the expert
ment of the L~ackawanna railroad with
concrete car bumpers has been tried with
great success. They are of monolithic
construction, with a granite block face to
receive the blow of the car buffer. The
rails of the roadbed project into the
concrete, SO that the impact force reacts
against the weight of the car. The same
authority tells of the successful operation
of an immense fly wheel, or rather two
of them, made of REINFORCED concrete, in
a pumping station near Johannesburg,
South Africa. Each weighs 5000 pounds
and is II feet in diameter. The difficulty
and expense of transporting iron led to
this surprising use of concrete.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
{7G OF s;
Tbe News ~

The moving picture combine il a now
nickel trust.
Two Hungarian counts in the Wander
bilt family. They always did want it
all.
Col. John Temple Graves says women
should get mems wages. Chorus-Don't
they7
A weather bureau doesn't necessarily
imply that it knows anything about the
weather.
The Prosperity Convention ought to
make the country feel better and get out
of the dumps"
In that auto endurance test it is a case
of the race being to the strong, rather
than to the swift.
Looks funny to see old Colonel Georgia
standing up at the drug store fountain,
drinking soda water.
Between moonshiners and night-raiders
the moon doesn't shine so peacefully on
the old Kentucky home.
When a man reads the figures o n the
Panama canal he finds there is one thing
more expensive than being married.
The members of a railroad camp in
North Carolina killed their cook because
be didn't suit. What an example!
A 13-year-old girl declares she stole
$500 in one day in Philadelphia. She
ought to be ashamed of robbing a sleep.
ing city.
They took a New York bank clerk to
an insane asylum because he thought
his salary was too big. And who can
blame them!
Although he married seven women
Carl yeltheim was sentenced in London
to serve 20 years for blackmail. That
seems like piling it on!
A California court has decided that a
pedestrian isn't obliged to dodge an auto
mobile. No, he can get smashed &c
smithereensr if he likes.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
NoRTHWEsT

The Mile Laos Chippewa Indiana
most Of whom live on the White Earth
reservation in Minnesota, will soon share
in a division Of $500 received from ths
government.
The commission which has charge Of
the awarding of the Carnegie hero med-
ais is investigating a rescue by a South
Dakota young man named Earl Vanscot-
ter, who saved the life of John Flock
hart, q companion, while the two were
skating on the Missouri river, near Green.
wood.
D~isregarding the shrieks of warning
from the locomotive whistle, and refus
ing to leave the track upon which he was
walking, an unidentified lumberjack DELHI
erateIy permitted himself to be struck by
a switch engine at the junction near
Tower, Mimi, and was instantly killed.
The farm home OF John Donthitt, near
Westboro, Wis, was destroyed by fire
while the mother was outside. The stove
exploded and her three small children,
one four years old, one two years old
and a baby, were burned to death. The
father was away from home working IN
a lumber camp.
Determined to convince his hearers
that he was God, as he claimed, and
that he was INN ortal, an unknown
stranger deliberately sat upon the rails
before an onrushing passenger train and
was ground to death beneath the wheels
before the eyes Of a large number Of PED.
Pile at Salem, Wis.
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, people arN
divided by a bitter factional fight ovef
tn question as to whether the new fed.
eral building shall be erected this year
with the 100000 appropriated BY Con-
gress. Ur whether the building shall b
delayed while an effort is. being made q
secure an additional $4,000.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
GIANT DREDGE EATING CANAL THROUGH FLoR1DAs MUCK LAND

by and gave what help could be given.
When the naval authorities at Hako-
date were notified, they dispatched sew
eral fast destroyers at top speed for
the scene Of the wreck, in hope Of CIV
Ing assistance. The Hideyoshi vas bad
" damaged, but nc one is believed to
have been lost on that ship. The cap
tain and all the members Of the crew
are japanese.
A number Of rich Japanese merchants
are thought to have been on board the
wrecked steamer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
Made Rnfd on SOM.

Some of the incidents Of q war play
now running in New York suggested to
q civilian Of the present generation
that the playwright of to-day takes a
while lot of license. A veteran with
an empty sleeve took issue with him.
1.-THE incidents you mention" he said
to the young man, may not have oc-
Cured as here presented. But the
struggle had it's comedy situations. It
was not all grim, and it was a good
thing it wasn't.
There wasn't nue. time in the clos
ing days Of the war for farcical Incl
dents, but while the masters of the
great trouble were formulating plans
Falstaffs were plentiful in remote
places. One Of these whom l knew had
got up to the title of major. He was
a German.
Ellis battalion consisted of the raw
est lot of recruits that were eve hud-
died under one command. The aggre-
cation vas mounted. 1t was assigned
to duty at a post in close proximity to
a settlement of bushwhackers.
''These were not the bushwhackers
of later days. They were for the most
part young men who were banded to-
gether awaiting an opportunity of get
ting to the front. Pending that soldier
ing with them was a frolic.
1.-THE big German major took his part
with all the seriousness of a division
commander on the eve of a battle. Once
a week, sometimes %oftener, the major
sent hurry orders for the recruits to
ration III for a two days scout and
then took them out solemnly into the
country.
AS often as the column went out Oh
scout as often did it return, a day or
two later, usually splashed with the
mud of the country roads, the horses
looking jaded and uncurrieG. If they
V brought back a prisoner that fact
was kept concealed by the major.
'On one of these scouts the column
had an experience that was not down
in the majors tactics. The bqshwhack-
ers, who always knew Of the coming
of the column and scattered, concluded
to give him q surprise.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
GATORS, HOME TO BE EDEN.
Florida's Governor Digs Canals In
Test to Drain Everglades.

In the belief that it Is possible to
drain the everglades, thus wiping out
of existence the worlds greatest habi-
tat of alligators, and to convert the
millions of acres of swamps into the
garden spot of the earth, Governor w.
B. Broward of Florida is trying to re-
claim 10000 acres Of these lands as a
test. He is carefully watching two
large dredges that are slowly digging
q sixty-foot canal preliminary to recla-
nation work. Experts, both in this
country and in Europe, to whom sam
pies of the soil Of the everglades were
submitted for analysis, pronounced it
the richest in the world. They return
ed a similar verdict on sugar cane
raised on land reclaimed from the
everglades.
Sugar imported into this country is
valued at $150,O0O,OOO a year. Cover
nor Broward, using the experts data,
figured that $15O.GOO,O 900 worth Of sugar
could be produced on 100000 acres of
the Everglades. That would leave over
100000 acres for the production of
other things. With this bonanza in
sight, he set about to have the lands
drained. He was confronted with al
most overwhelming opposition. Rail-
roads held grants for more land than
is owned by the State, and they claimed
the Everglades. .-
Governor Broward's plan was to
drain Lake Okechobee, which would
require a canal about fifty miles long.
His effort to get from the people au-
thority to raise money enough to carry
out that project was defeated. He then
undertook the carrying out a lesser prof.
ect. 1t is proving a complete success.
and will, he says, convince the people
of the wisdom and practicability Ut the
big plan.
The work being done consists in run
ming two canals to Pine Island, which
is three miles long, three-quarters of a
mile wide, and lies four miles from
New river. One canal will extend to
the northern and the other to the
southern point of the island.
This will make 10000 acres Of land
available for cultivation. Engineers
say the canals will be completed in the
fall. Each canal Is sixty feet wide and
ten feet deep.
Land already drained has been sold
for from SIS to $50 an acre, and the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
Rare Art secret. Revealed.

Collectors Of rare violins and other
musical instruments are much interested
Ia the recently tested claim Of Pref. John
Horvath of Philadelphia that he had dis
covered the secret Of Stradivarius, whose
violins now command fabulous prices.
According to Hervath, it is all in the
varnish and after years of experimental
ton he has produced the varnish. Be-
fore a company of experts and musi-
clans he compared the tone effects of two
violins treated with his varnish, one q
81 affair in use and the other a $22 in
strument just out of the factory, with a
number Of rare and costly %violins. His
triumph exceeded all expectations for the
treated instruments equaled the best. The
next step will be to give a number of
treated violins a six months test.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03

.-. .Mn"#
1621-Plymouth colony concluded treaty
with the Indians.
162S-Plans for the Massachusetts, col
ony completed.
1676-Attack on Groton, Mass, by In
dams.
1T09-The thermometer, a measurer OF the
strength and velocity of the wind,
invented by Wolfus.
1T76-American Congress issued letters
of marque and reprisal against Eng
land.
177T-British force landed at Peekskill
and seized the military stores.
1779-Gen. Benedict Arnold resigned his
command in the American army.
1TS1-The planet Uranus discovered by
Herschel.
1TSS-Large section of New Orleans de-
stroyed by fire.
1SO1-Kingdom of Etruria created by
Napoleon.
1S04-Duke of Enghien shot by order OF
Napoleon.
1S15-Military operations on land in the
war between the United States and
.EH# UTGdl bTllulH CdWG " al Shu .H.#'E.
lS22-The United States acknowledged
the independence of the South Amer
lean government.
1S31-The celebrated bill for parliament
airy reform read for the first time in
the British House of Commons.
1S36-Texans and Mexicans engaged In
battle near Goliad, Texas.
ISxO NronA,oola d -, ~ &c Trad moor
porated.
1S55-First train passed over Niagar,
bridge. . . Investigating committe'
reported that the Kansas election
were carried by fraud.
1S5S-Lucknow captured by the British
force under Sir Colin Campbell.
Senate passed a bill to admit Kansa
as a State under the Lecompton con
stitution.
1861-Kingdom of Itsly established. 4.
Title Of King Of Italy conferred
upon Victor Emn anuel.
1S64-Gen. Grant assumed command o
all the armies of the Union.
iS65IGen. Sherman arrived at Colds
boro and joined the armies undel
Gen. Schoield and Gen. Terry.
Confederates attacked Gen. Slocum'
division of Sherman's army nea
Bentonville, n. G.
1S67-Cession of Ru sian America to tn
United States.
1S6S-The High Court of Impeachment
opened for the trial Of Presiden
Johnson.
1871-Insurrection broke out among tn
troops in Paris.
1Ss1-Alexander II. of Russia killed b.
the explosion of a bomb thrown b,
Nihilists.
1Ss2-Many lives lost by earthquake !
Costa Rica.
1se1-Steamer Utopia sunk in collision
of Gibralta, with loss Of nearly 60
lives.
1894-Walter Nellman Arctic expeditio,
sailed from Sew York.
19Oo-Lord Ro5e,ts entered Bloemfor
TEN.
19O7-Great foods in Pittsburg; waite
the highest in seventy years..
American marines landed in Hor
duras.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
HURT T 7 By PANIC.
Railroads Net Income Larger In Last
Half Of 1907 than 1905.

Every Indication points to an i'm.
provement generally In the railroad and
Industrial situation Of the country &C
corling to reports made by the great
railway systems OF America to the In
terstate commission. Yhess
reports are to the effect that, while
the railroads suffered to some extent
BY what has come to be referred to az
the "October panic" the loss was W no
means 50 serious as generally has been
supposed.
1t appears from the reports that the
effect was felt particularly by the east
ern lines and by the ltnes in the south.
eastern part OF the country, while west.
ern and transcontinental roads have
not suffered materially. The figures
available to the interstate commerce
commission indicate also that the gem
eral condition in the country Is Inn
proving materially, with a prospect
that It soon will be normal OF better.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
conntx Loses Money.

Under a decision of the District Court,
st. Louis county must pay into the Min
nesota State treasury S17,157.74 tax
money lost through the failure of banks
in 1894 and 1896. The county must also
stand the loss of State funds which had
been forwarded to the State treasurer on
tax settlements. The county will APP
peal to the Supreme Court.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03

Plans have been completed by the Dead
wood Business Club for the organization
of a company with 100000 capital that
will remodel the old foundry of the Black
Hills Manufacturing Company, which
was burned down more thar a year ago.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
Embezx1ement. in 1907

The record Of embe- element, forgery,
defaulting and bank wrecking continues
large, though the total for 1907 is smaller
thar that of 1905, which was the largest
since 1894. The total for 1907 is $10,-
424,S20. Banks and trust companies are
the worst sufferers, their losings being
$4,98S Cos. Public officials have been
comparatively honest, having distracted
emily $751; 66. The summary of embez-
elements, ETC., by years, from 1894 to
1908, is as follows:
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03

The directors Of the st. Paul CONNER
cial Club have adopted a resolution re-
questing Congress to increase the annual
appropriation for the Improvement of the
Mississippi river from Minneapolis to the
mouth of the Missouri from $4,000 to
$2,GOO,O0O. 1t is urged that this sum be
appropriated annually FOR at least ten
years.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03

Five Detroit women formed a stork
club in January, 1907. A baby has come
to each of them since that time.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03

money has been applied to the fund for
digging the canals. The governor says
b Everglades can be reclaimed at q
cost OF not over 81 an acre. Estimates
Of the value Of the land range from
$50 to 500 an acre.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-07
GEO. MOBILES SALE.

The undersigned, residing five
miles south east of Lancaster, being
half mile Moth and half mile east
of the Aupperle church will offer for
sale at auction commencing at 10
O'Clock a. M. on
TUESDAY, NOV. II, 1908,
the following described property:
Head Horses. -Sorrel team IA
years old: mare and gelding, one
gelding about 10 years old; one
black gelding years old.
sc Head Cattle Consisting of II
milch COWS; 2 two-year old heifers !;
s yearlings; 8 steers and heifers; 8
calves, 6 steers and heifers.
% Head Swine. ID good shoats
and pigs. 100 chickens.
Hay and Grain. 80 tons of hay.
straw stack, $50 bushels oats, 90 Blu.
wheat, ABOUT 900 bushels corn and
some barley.
Farm Machinery. One new Blue
Bell Cream separator, one Keystone
hay loader, one new Keystone side
delivery, sulky rake, seeder, Champion
mower, binder, one 3-horse disk, one
3-section steel drag, one walking
cultivator. stubble pillow, cornsheller,
tanning mill, grass seeder, wise and
boring machine and bits and lots of
other articles. 8 farm wagons. one
two-seated spring wagon, one single
top buggy, bob sled, roadcart. 2 sets
of double work harness. one single
harness and saddle; also a cider
mill, an iron kettle, a 10 gallon
churn. % grain sacks, So good white
oak posts and some lumber, a Stand
ard telephone, and a few house
ho,d articles.
Lunch at noon.
Terms-All sums of $40 or under
cash; on sums over this amount one
years time will be given on approved
bankable notes drawing : per cent in
terest.
GEORGE NOZZLE.
P. A. Bishop, Auctioneer.
Geo. A. Moore, Clerk.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-07

r. L. KnotweIl. of Beetown, was
a caller here "Wednesday.
Dan Price. OF Madison, visited at
home this week.
Sam Livingston went to Fenni-
more Thursday.
j W. John, of Fennimore. called
here Wednesday.
John Boyle, of Fennimore, visited
friends here Tuesday.
Everett Pritchet was over from
Bloomington Wednesday.
"A Bourette, of Sitter, was Lam
caster caller Wednesday.
Ed Mulrooney and C. Kiley, of
Fennimore, visited here Thursday.
Ora Patch aud Clyde Church, of
Mt. Hope, were callers in this city
Wednesday,
Omar ]. Arnold and George R.
Borah, of Mt. Ida, were Lancaster
visitors Wednesday,
Will Condry and c. J. Dennis,
of Platteville, were in this city We'd
nesday on business.
Eighteen of the young people in
the German Evangelical church have
organized Young Peoples Society.
Governor johnson s engagement
to speak in Platteville tonight has
been cancelled, his voice being in bad
condition.
Mrs. John Simison, Of Seattle,
WASH, and Mrs. W. N. Moulton,
of Two Harbors. Mimi, are enjoying
two weeks visit at the home of their
father, John Schreiner.
r. Hokanson, of Madison, a
travelling salesman for the Binch
automobile was in Lancaster the first
Of the week in the interests of this
machine. He was accompanied here
by Frank Gould, of Montfort
1t is said that there will be a
Christmas tree famine this year. The
forest fires which destroyed so many
acres of second growth pine in north
ern Wisconsin, Michigan and Min
nesota, that either some substitute
must be found or the evergreen must
come from some other place.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-07
High School Notes.
'Rah for Taft

fRah for Taft
Thursday and Friday were examina
tion days for H. S. students. As
there were no recitations, pupils we're
allowed to remain away from school
while not writing an examination.
Assistant Prin. Trainer gave very
much appreciated talk on good
politics, and the peoples vote, He
voiced an assertion made by Justice
Harlan in speech to George Wash
ington University students-saying
that we didn't so much need new
laws and more planks in the plat
form, but MEN at the polls.
Lost. Last Tuesday night, "a large
colored badge with a picture of
William Jennings Bryan thereon.
Finder will please return same to Lee
Andrews.
An assessment was made the last of
the week among the foot ball players
to help pay expenses. We guess that
the foot ball team was started at the
wrong time of the moon this year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-07
Names Largest Turtle.

The largest turtle ever seen in
Maine was captured recently by Capt.
John Snowman, a Boothbay Harbor
fisherman, and is now Oh exhibition at
Squirrel island. It's weight is esti-
mated at 1900 pounds, and it is nine
feet long, five feel wide, while it's
thickness of body is "a inches. The
turtle is believed ~ " several hun.
dred years old.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-07
Olive Oil Culture.

Owing to the strict gove' ument in
spection, practically all l an export
olive Oils pure on leaving Italy. For
home consumption there is hardly a
suficiency, from year to year, necessi-
tating large imports of cotton-seed oil
from America; and this has induced
the government to take special action
toward the Improvement of olive cul-
ture.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-07
wiz with a S+iro

The French are undoJ )ted1y a hui
morous and humor-lovi G people;
only, sometimes, this blithesome, eff
fervescing quality goes astray. In
stead of the sparkle in the glass OF
champagne, it turns, by ne subtle
chemistry, into an acid sort of drink,
which leaves a disagreeab'9 taste in
the mouth.-PaIl Mall Gazette.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-07
NaturaIized on the Arm.

An Italian went to the civil service
commissioners rooms to be examined
for a laborer's position. He answered
ly they asked him if he had ever been
naturalized. He seemed a bit puzzled,
but at last his face lighted up. "Ah,
know whata you mean. Scratcha de
arm. Yes, lasta week.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-07
No police in Heaven.

Small Isabel's particular friend, the
policeman on the beat, contracted
pneumonia and died. Isabel was great.
ly grieved until her mother convinced
her that he had gone to heaven. Even
then she was not quite reconciled.
IF heaven is such a good place" re-
marked the little skeptic, Il don't see
what God wants pnli~~<~~M there for!"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-07
Initiate American DESIGNS.

Germany is freely initiating Ameri-
can patterns in the manufacture of
farm implements and machinery,
though American harvesters still pre-
dominate