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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
TWO DIE IN AUTO ACCIDENT.
Goes Into the River Mt Mill
Yankee Through Open Draw.

~ So~'
wnukec Through Open Draw.
An automobile containing three men
dashed into the open draw of the Oneida
street bridge in Milwaukee at l o'clock
the other morning and went to the bottom
of the river, carrying two of the occu-
pants to their death. A third was res
cHed with difficulty and is at the emer-
gency hospital. The dead: Oscar Il.
Bartlett, member board of trade: Albert
Kunz. chauffeur. A. +. Solliday OF the
Solliday Motor Company was rescued.
The car approached the bridge from the
east, coming down the Oneida street hill
at a high rate of speed. The driver APP
parently did not notice that the bridge
was open until the car was within TWEEN
tv feet of it. Kunz then made a frantic
effort to avoid the river, but only succeed
ed in turning the car as far as the curb,
where it bounded into the air, turning a
complete somersault between the dock and
the center pier of the bridge, hurting Mr..
Bartlett and Mr.. Solliday thirty feet to
the south of where the car hit the water.
The crew of the steamer Iowa, which was
passing through the draw. saw the ira
gedy and Immediately lowered boats. Kunz
was pinned under the automobile at the
bottom of the river.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
E8HENNGM
R2sKDpw:


In st. Petersburg, Maj. Gen. Alexieff.
retired, has been indicted. by order OF
Minister of Marine Dikof, on the charge
of REGULATION and having received brides
while in tho service.
Prof. II. e. Hansen of the United
States Department of Agriculture has
eft st. Petersburg on his way to Central
Asia, where he will collect plants and
seeds for experimental purposes in this
'ountry.
Another Irish land bill to facilitate the
carrying out of the previous land pur-
chase act has been introduced in tho
House Of Commons by Chief Secretary
for. ireland Birrell. The chief secretary
dealt in huge figures. He said he found
hat the estimate Of S5OO.OOO,OOO made
by one of his predecessors, George Wynd'
ham. as the amount necessary to satisfy
the land hunger of the tenants was totally
inadequate; S~9OO,O0O,OOO would be re-
uuired for this end. The completed
ed S125, 100000.
Frank Oliver, British Columbia minis
ter of the interior, declared that if q
500 head tax would not exclude China
men. the government would raise 1T. Five
hundred dollars was meant to be prohlbl-
tive and if the amount was not sufficient
TO be Drohibitive it would be made so.
The committee On national defense of
the Russian duma has decided to refuse
the appropriation for the construction Of
battleships contained in the budget for
1909 until such time as the naval minis
try shall nave been satisfactorily reform
ed. 1t will. however, grant money for
torpedo boats, etc.
China's message to President Roosevelt
and the American people thanking them
for remitting most of the Boxer indem-
nifty. reads: Long may your excellency
IN ioy good health and happiness. May
the American people be ever blessed with
p6sperity mad peace. These are our
hvrtfelt wishes"
In the German %reichstag the various
divisions Of the Liberal party and the
members of the Center party agree that
the constitution should be so changed that
the ministers would be responsible to the
reople, but the factions stand for such
q variety of ideas that the change is not
likely to be made
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
TU RATTLE WITH INSECTS.
Tho Fight Which Costs Our Country
$7OO, 900, 900 Every Year.

$7oo, 900, 900 Every Year.
Few realize it, but it is a fact never.
theless, that the United States pays .
heavier toll to mans insect enemies
han doe any other land OF the face
of the earth. For it has bsen discOv-
ercd--and the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture has recently made
it public-that the losing battle We
wage every ear against the ehinch bug
and his various ard vasarious allies OF
field and forest furnish an annual de-
ficit on farm products that are worth
$1,000, 000, 900, Of 500, 900, 600.
Not only do those defeats cost us
more han the army and the grand
navy we would hate to use, but they
exceed, besides, the expense Of the
whole pension list and the price we pay
for maintaining the entire national gov
eminent.
Half a billion OF that stupendous tax
levied by our insect enemies yearly Is
taken away from us while we are grow
ing the crops that are to feed us from
year to year; the foe does not wait
until his loot is ripe.
Another 500, 600 is destroyed
while cereals and forage crops are in
storage, before their human owners can
onsume them and still another $780,
100000 is ruined in our forests and for
rst products, II resource III which cur
own improvidence has already left US
| poor as church mice.
The chinch bug takes from the ma
lions $1,000, 100000 corn crop, q toll
no larger than the corn roo worm : and
the $4,000, 900 worth ruined BY each of
them is equaied by the depredations OF
half a hundred other Unsuitable robbers
~--wireworms, cutworms, army worms,
stalk-borers, plant lice, lscrsts and
grasshoppers. .ltgar
The Hessian fly usually charges Our
wheat crop about $4O,OOO,OOO for the
cost Of his entertainment; but some
times, as in 1900, he costs $10O,OOO,0OO
In the South the cotton boil weevil,
chewing up $2O,OOo,0OO Of n Of the
lands great staples, is aided to the ex-
tent of 100000 by the bollworm and
the leafworm.
In the apple orchards, the ubiquitous
coddling moth enjoys a banquet that
costs us 5000 600, while the insect
enemies of trees, pursuing their nefari-
Gus activities into the farmers wOOdlot
and the national forest reserves, eat up
no less than %$7O,OOO,0OO Of growing TIM
Der during any twelvemcnth the forest
ers keep watch upon them.
Those bloody culprits, the OK MARBLE,
and the various biting flies and ticks
including buffalo gnats, gad6ies, Sottiies
and screw-worm fies-amid an eadless
animal anguish which man has thus far
failed to prevent. slaughter values In
live stock to the extent of $175,oO0,ooo-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
COUPLE MURDERED IN SLEEP.
Assassin Hacks Faces of Man ant
wife with i;atchet.

Assassin Hacks Faces of Man and
wife with Ratchet.
Wicentz Florczik and his wife were
murdered by an assassin at their resi-
dence, 132 Bird street, Wilmington, Del
Their bodies were found by Alexande
Florczik, brother of the murdered MAJ
and a ledger at the house, who is detair
ed at police headquarters. Alexande
told the police that when he went HON
about IL O'Clock at night he was unab'
to gain admittance. and spent the nigh
with an uncle. He went to the hous'
about 9 O'Clock in the morning and foun
the bodies. He said the two children, =
girl 2 years old Int a 2-months-old bah
had not been molested. The baby lay j
q crib between the beds occupied by til
parents. Both of the victims had bee
hacked in the face with a Ratchet whic
was found on the mans bed. The murd
is thought to nave been committed &c
revenge. Florczik was 80, and his wifi
"a years old. The prisoner is Is.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
HELD UP BY -FOUR ROBBERS.
Express Car Dynamited, but Messen-
ger Snya Hishxxayme Got Little.

EXpress Car ynnmtted but Messen.
ger Says ~HiEhwaymen Got Little.
Oregon Railroad and Navigation train
No. 1, known as the Chica so-Portland
special, was held up and the express car
dynamited by four unmasked robbers
shortly after 8 o'clock on a recent night,
nine miles east of Portland, Ore. Ex-
press Messenger O. H. Huff said the rob-
bers secured little of value. The robbers
did not modest the passengers, burt I'M
coupled the express car and ordered the
engineer to take it down the track to-
ward Portland. About a mile beyond the
point where the train was held up the
doors of the express car were shattered
by nitroglycerinc. The train did not
carry a through safe, a small local safe
and a strong box being the only recep-
tacles for valuables. The robbers COM
PEELED Express Messenger Huff to open
the small safe. 1t contained but thres
or four small packages, believed to have
been of small value. The strong box
was not touched. The robbers escaped.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
~N5&kMI
OF
@OEHnTT
1[P@&T

Milwaukee is after the next bowling
congress and looks good to get it.
Percy Houghton has been elected foot
ball coach at Harvard for another two
years.
James r. Keene was the largest winner
on the American turf this season. He
won $2S2,O75.
Cornell's track team will meet the Ma
rooms on an indoor track at the Bartlett
gymnasium this winter.
Tommy Burns, the Canadian, is not
only champion heavyweight fighter, but
he is champion of all weights as a finan-
cier.
The most profitable race horse in the
United States this season was Sir Martin.
He captured stakes to the value of $751;
$50.
In the relay run from New York to
Washington nearly 1000 boys carried a
silver tube containing a message from
Rudolph Foster to President Roosevelt.
Patsy Donovan, who has been let go
as manager of the Brooklyn National
League team, will in all probability be
appointed manager of the Boston club
next year.
Fred Bradley of Boston was knocked
out in the fourth round of a boxing bout
with Al Kubiak of Grand Rapids. Mich,
at the West End Athletic Club in Phila-
delphia. He became unconscious and was
hurried to a hospital.
Mordecai Brown has gone to work as d
buyer in the Chicago stock yards. The
three-ingered pitching wonder says he will
some day be out of baseball and wants
a profession to fall back upon.
Christy Mathewson. the famous Ncp
York Giant, will coach the Harvard ,ftc1-
ing squad next spring. N~egcpsciors
which have been under way for rae time
have practically been completed.
Prospects for the resr-s1,tioa OF boxing
in Chicago were shass.ced when Chief
OF Police Shippy CO.. I'll the arrest CT prin-
cipals and p~rr.tacers of q boxing match
given in the Illinois Boxing ClG1 q few
days ago
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
Railroads Fixed Coal Prices.

Some new and startling chapters of an
thracite history were brought to light
during the hearing Of the federal suit
against the anthracite railroads charging
trade restraint, before Examiner Guilbert
at Philadelphia recently. Lawyers f"r
the government submitted a document
showing how as far back as 1916 there
was a board of control empowered to fix
prices and regulate production and ship
ments, and how representatives of the va
rious coal roads were directors Of thu
Temple Iron Company, the executive com.
mittee of which was named by President
Baer of the Reading. Lawyers for the
defense objected that the document was
Irrelevant, and that it antedated the life
of the law under which the present action
was brought.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
Hniti'S Revolution.

Nord Alexis speedy departure will OBJ
viate the necessity Of his making a fnan-
cial report.-Detroit News.
With a little education those Uaitians
might be able to settle their differences
through old-fashioned debating societies
instead of revolutions.-Toledo Blade.
Old President Nord Alexis has seen al
most as man. revolutions as a roulette
gambler, and looks upon the freaks of
fortune almost as cynically.--Atlanta
Journal.
If Haiti keeps on having revolutions the
first thing she knows the chivalrous but
firm hand of the United States will be
stretched out in her Observation-Disclosures
Chronicle.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
TIE UP RAILWAY SYSTEM.
Block Signals Useless for -EiGhtca

Block Signals Useless for Fighter
Hours Through Target Practice.
A small boy with a Flobert rife de!ar
ed the operation of trains on the LAX
Shore railroad several hours the oEl'#
night and tied up the block signal sysEe"
eighteen hours. TIE boy was Fra
Voyshzill. aged 10. OF Cleveland, and b
fred seven bullets at a block target. Sc.
eral lodged in the electric mechanist
short-circuited the current and the signal
did not work. II was shooting at birds,
y.ttnS Voyshzill told the Juvenile Court
he was sent to the detention home
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
THE PREsIDEETIAL VOTE.
Summary Of the Ballots Cast at tho
Iout gIe,fion-

summary Of the Ballots Cast At tho
Last Election.
The total popular vote Of the seven
presidential candidates at the last ma
tional election has been made known. The
totals show tho following votes cast !;
Taft, Republican, 7.637,676; Bryan, Dem
ocrat, 6,393, 1872: Debs, Socialist, 47,65l;
Chain, Prohibition, 241, DS2 Hissen, In
dependence. S.1S6: Watson. Pspulist,
1881; Gilhaus, Socialist Labor, 1S,42l;
total ier all candidates, 14,S52,239.
The biggest difference in a party vote
is shown in an increase for Bryan OF
1,315,211 over the total vote cast in 1901
for Alton r. Parker, the Democratic CAN
didate.
The popular vote for President by
States for Taft, Bryan and Debs was a.
follows
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25

Senate. 1t is said that Mr.. KnoX's resig-
nation from the Senate is ready to be
submitted to Gov. Stuart.
Senator Knox was appointed Attor-
ney General by President Mckinley
and remained in that position under
Roosevelt until 1904, when upon the
death Of Matt Quay he became Senator
for Pennsylvania.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
BR1BE PUTS OFFICIAL IN CELL

Former Member of City Board Sen
fenced to Penitentinry.
Fred Lied, formerly member of IL
Columbus board of control. was s]cnteuce.
to four years in the Ohio penitentiar.
for accepting a bride from Nelson Car
non, representative of the Trinidad p
ing Company of Cleveland, in connect y
with East Broad street paving. Ere
Immel. another former member of e..
board of control, is serving a term in til
penitentiary.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
irneri:a Al Girl to Wed Earl.

1t is C<i~:sNr announced that a mar
r;age engagement has been arranged be-
twe.r the Earl OF Granard and Miss Bea-
rice Mills. the daughter of Ogden Mills
OF New York. Bernard Arthur Forbes.
the eighth Earl Of Grarard. is a lorG-:n-
waiting to the King AID Master of the
Horse.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25

The American housewife will have to
nay an increase of 5 cents on each broom
she uses in the next year owing to a scare
ity of broom corn this fall I'M high prices.
As each woman uses on the average four
brooms a year, the slight additional cost
to the households will mount into big
figures in the aggregate.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25

State In the Iaf
cabinet, according
to a report in
Washington that
appears to be au-
thentic. Mr.. Knox,
it is said, has con-
scented to serve in
the cabinet, at q
sacrifice of his per-
sonal ~inclinations,
as he would prefer
10 romoiD in fhn
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
big Furnace Starts Up,

The Emma blast furnace of the Amcri.
can Steel and Wire Company in Clcvs,
land has started for the first time in -
teen months. Two shifts of men, So in
all. We're put to work, and the "lrnace
will he kept going night and day.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25

III suns rays focusing .~nroush a fish
globe filed with water c-used a fia in
the homo of j. c. Holt in Sycamore.
Ohio. The timely dfscovery of the blaze
alcne saved the y" 81 from destruction.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25

of right,
a conviction is re-
verScd on appeal by
the defendant to a
Circuit Court of
Appeals. is the
opinion expressed
by Attorney Gen
erai B0napartc In
his annual report
for the fiscal year
ending Juhe 30,
q submitted to
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
Blow Up Bank; Steal $4,000.

Five highwnymen blew up the Hollo-
way Exchange bank of Gibbon, Neb., held
off the inhabitants and stole $500 from
the vaults. They escaped in an auto.
mobile, citizens pursuing them
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25

In the course Of an address delivered
q, st. Renedict's school n Baltimore, Car
dinal Gibbons said The church teaches
that the civil authorities must ne respect
"A. no matter what the nationality or re-
l;pion of the incu mbenf in Office"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
.-7637676 6.393.1S2 44s.45

IUt1Ts 'VT0
In six States not a vote was cast tor
Hisgen. Nine States registered not a
single vote for the Prohibitionist candi-
date. The Socialist Labor candidate re-
ceived votes in only thirteen States, and
in only nineteen States were votes cas-
for Watson of the Populist party.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
OLD veIlow LrnGar r,,ea

Judge John i. Nolen. grand sire OF the
Sovereign Grard Lodge, Independent Or
der of CaI H'e;c~ss died Df nri-t failure
following a surgical OPERATION in NASH
vile, Team.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
Cost Of Roosevelt. Hunt.

A London traveller with wide expert
ence in hunting in Africa has made a cal
c%ulation as to the expense Of the proposed
trip by President Roosevelt, which he esti-
mates conservatively at $4,000. without
allowing for unforeseen expenses that ara
certain to arise.
The figures, providing for a stay In
Africa of four months by a party of ivo.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
BONAPAR7E ASKS FDR
MORE LEGAL POWER
Attorney-Generai Says 1t Is Needed
in Prosecution of Rich
Defendants.
CITES THE STANDARD FINE.
That Case, He Thinks, Shows the
Necessity of a Change in the
Present Statutes.

the right of appeal to he Supreme
Court of the United States as a matter
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25
KNOX WILL HEAD THE CABINET.
Senator Accepts Position of Secre-
tary of State Offered b yTaft.

Senator Philander G. Knox of Penn.
sylvania has been offered and has &C"
cepted the position of Secretary OF
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25

A. Deucher, minister of commerce, wa.
elected president of the Swiss republic
for 1909 by the Federal Assembly. He
will succeed DR.. f. Bremen, whose term
of office expires Jan. /.
Iron Mill to Reopen; Work for GOO.
The Toledo plant of the Republic Iron
and Steel Company. employing 600 men,
will resume operations Dec. IS after thir'
teen months idleness.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-25

Gov. Folk has decided that under the
law the entire electoral vote of Missouri
should be cast for William H.. Taft. The
Taft plurality in Missouri is 1926.
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Th9 Swiss Bands.

Tho Swiss bands marched to the music
of fife and drum or Of their own voices,
tho notation of one Of their marching
songs being still preserved. The forest
oantons also sent q horn with thar oom-
panies, which instruments were known
by nioknames, Bull Of Uri, Cow OF Unter.
walden, and the like. Their sound was
long O note Of terror to the men OF Aus.
tria and Burgundy, and made grand
rallying cry for the Swiss In action. But
apart from this, these horns appear to be
tho origin of the bugle horns which still
appear on the appointments Of our light
Infantry, and have displaced the drum %
the distinctive instrument Of the foot sol.
disr. Each company Of course had flag
Of its own, which on march or IN action
was posted in the center under guard OF
halberds. Whence the main body some
times was called by the name OF tie pan
uer (banner.) The Swiss were aistin'
xuished by the small size Of their flags;
the landsknechte, on the contrary, to 90
oentuate the difference between themselves
and their hated rivals, carried enormous
ensigns, and made great play with them.
Other nations chose happy mean between
the two.
Uniform was sf course thing virtually
unknown In the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, though the Swiss, II we are to
trust old woodouts, wore the white GROSS
on . red ground even at Sempaoh.-Mso-
millan's Magazine.
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MARY ANpERsoN's WARDROBE.
When she Had but Ono Stage Costume
For Five Five Act Plays

When she Had but Ono Stage Costume
For Five Five Act Plays
Three months elapsed between Mary
Anderson's first appearance on the stage
and her second performance, "a heart
breaking interval" writes Mrs. De Ma
yarro In The Ladies' Home Journal. Man
sger Macaulsy Of Louisville then offered
her his theater again for week, and she
presented the chief roles In five plays
"Fazio, "The Hunohbaok," "Evadne, I"
"The Lady Of Lyons" and "Romeo and
Juliet" OF her first weeks engagement
she writes: "At the end Of the week was
In debt to the manager for the sum OF 81,
the house having been large enough only
to cover the running expenses. AL had
Rained by q week Of hard work was sad
heart and very sore throat. Besides,
,reditors became unpleasantly importu.
nate, for my soanty wardrobe was not yet
paid for. This consisted Of q white satin
dress, simply made, which did service for
all the parts. It sparkled In silver trim
minp for Juliet, was covered with pink
roses for Julia, became gay In green and
gold for Evadne and cloudy with white
Lace for Pauline. The unfortunate gown
owed its many changes to the nimble and
willing fingers Of my mother, who spent
much time each day In its metamorphoses.
"A train Of velveteen, . white muslin
dreae and . modern black silk gown,
which, like Mr.. Toodles, We thought
would be 10 useful, but which had to be
discarded after its first appearance, COM
plsted my wardrobe-surely meager one
for five plays Of FIVE aots each, requiring
at least 19 gowns. We had built up
financial as well as artistic hopes for that
week and were disappointed in both. But
1t proved more successful than was at first
thought, for shortly after, Ben De Bar,
one Of the greatest Falstaffs Of his time,
engaged me for six nights at his st. Louis
theater. At the end OF that time found
myself In his debt for the sum Of $500, but
ths houses had steadily improved, and ths
press was filed with long articles enthu'
siastio about the present and full OF pre-
dictions about the future"
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He Preferred Death.

Baron de Malortie, German who had
served In Mexico with Maximilian, told to
Sir M. Grant Duff, who records 1t In his
"Diary," the following story OF an In
dams devotion to his leader:
General Mejia was full blood Indian
In the service of Macmillan and was tax
an prisoner along with him. Two hours
before their execution was to take place
General Alatorre came to him and said:
general Mejia, have been three times
your prisoner, and three times you have
spared my life. My aid-de-camp is at the
door with horse, and you are free to 90
where you pleass."
"And the EMPEROR" asked Mejia.
"Will be shot in two hours" answered
Alatorre.
"And you dars to come to me with such
. propositionl Leave the roomP rejoineo
Ihe prisoner. Alatorre did SO, and Me1ia
the emperor foil toeether.