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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
STOCK IN GOOD CONDITION.
Past Winter One Of the Most Favor
able I'm YearS

able in Years.
Reports from such parts Of western
South Dakota as are yet devoted to
cattle raising are to the effect that
the winter now drawing to a close has
been one of the most favorable in the
history of the state for the stockmen
of that region. The lack of snow on
the range has given cattle an oppor-
tunity to feed on the abundant grass
crop of last year, which, as is always
the case, cured on the stem. One
ranchman reports that thus far he has
fed only half ton of hay to his cat
tie. In anticipation of a hard winter,
many of the ranchmen had put up
hundreds of tons of hay. But the IA
vorable winter enabled cattle during
practically the entire winter to secure
their feed on the open prairie. Cattle
have come through the winter in very
fine condition, and will be ready for
shipment to market much earlier than
for several years past.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
PURSUED BY STRANGE FATE.
Three Witnesses In Famous Deadwood
Trial Meet Violent Deaths.

Three Witnesses In Famous DeadwOOd
Trial Meet Violent Deaths.
4 What strange fate is pursuing the
witnesses in the famous Farnham
murder trial that three years ago
thrilled the Black Hills. This is the
question that has arisen since the trag-
ic death few days ago at Lake City,
Colo, of Peter Baird, at one time a
we'll known mining men of Deadwood
In 1905 Ell p. Farnham. then manager
Of one Of the local mining properties
near Deadwood, shot and killed Dick
Calvin, an employe, and after a SEN
sational trial was acquitted. Farm
ham went to Goldfield, New, where he
has succeeded in accumulating quite
fortune. A few weeks after the
trial ended w. c. Terrence, who had
testified for Farnham. was struck and
killed by lightning during a storm.
Two weeks later his brother, l.. ".
Terrence, also q witness for the de-
fense, was drowned while fording the
river near Belle Fourche. Now Peter
Baird, another witness for Farnham,
has met his death by drinking water
that was proved to have been poi
SOnel
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
Forest Rangers I'm Session.

Forest rangers from all the reserves
In the western part of this state and
portions of the adjoining states were
in session at Deadwood Thursday. 80
i'm all being present. The meeting is
for the purpose of exchanging views
on the existing laws and conditions
governing the ranges and the best
mehods with which to met them. Sew
eral heads of departments connected
with the forestry service work were
tbor" F"om Washington attending the
Meeting. ...r .r......
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
SAD FATE OF PRIZE WHISPERS.
Conflagration Breaks Out in Dakota
Mans Luxuriant Crop.


FRANKIE Cooke, resident of Union
county, has taken considerable pride In
a luxuriant growth of whiskers which
he possessed, but he is not so proud
of them now, and all because Of a Pc
culiar incident from which he did not
escaped uscathed, and in which the
whiskers played an important part. In
lighting match piece of the burn
Ing sulphur went flying toward his
neck and lodged among his whiskers
In an instant his whispers were on
fire and burning firecely. Without
stopping to call the fire department,
Cooke attempted to extinguish the
flames, but in this he was not success
full until after his neck and hands
were quite badly burned. The whis-
kers were ruined.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
Dakota state Band Makes Hit.

The South Dakota State band. now
touring the Black Hills, is scoring 2
big hit In musical way, and Director
Cason and his members are being ac-
corded hearty receptions wherever
hey appear. The band is declared to
be one Of the best that has ever visit
ed the Black Hills. The violin solo
by Vernon III. Alger and little Gladys
cason is proving a general favorite.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
FINDS NO PERSONS TO BLAME.
Existing Conditions Responsible for
the Collinwood Disaster.

Coroner Burke rendered his decision
In the Collinwood school fire Thursday.
Conditions existing are blamed, but no
fault is charged to anyone. Fred Hir-
ter. the 5anitor, is exonerated.
The coroner found that the fire
started in closet under the front
stairway and was caused by overheated
pipes. The death of the children, he
said, was due to faulty construction.
The coroner recommended that the
legislature pass law to make all
school buildings fireproof and that au-
tomato devices be put In the buildings
to further safeguard the lives of the
children.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
ANARCHISTS ARE BARRED.
Not Allowed to Take Part in Removal
of Averbuch's Remains.

Olga Averbuch, sister of the man
who was killed by Chief Of Police
Shippy, of Chicago, Wednesday enter
ed a protest against the anarchists
taking part in the ceremonies incident
al to the removal of her brothers body
from the potters' field to one of the
Jewish cemeteries.
The Jewish Free Burial association,
which has the matter in charge. de-
clared anarchism is responsible to the
Jewish race and is forbidden by the
tenets of their religion. The anarch-
lists who had planned a celebration
were greatly surprised when told they
would not be allowed to be present.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
DR.. Mcfarland Exonerated.

The Kansas conference Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church Wednesday ex-
onerated DR.. ]. T. Mcfarland. of New
York, editor Of the Methodist Sun
day school publications. Of heretical
charges preferred against him by DIR.
George E. Cooke, member Of the
Troy conference.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
Warn Blacks to Leave,

Night riders Tuesday night made a
raid in Gibson county, Tenn. They
visited a negro tenant and fired sew
eral shots into the house, barely miss
ing three sleeping children. Notes
were showed under the doors of several
negro houses, warning them to leave.
All the negroes are reported to be good
citizens.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
Large Shipment of CattIe.

Stock raising continues to occupy
liberal part of the attention of the
progressive farmers of South Dakota,
much to their profit In a period OF
only six days eighteen carloads Of
cattle were shipped from the little
town OF Ethan, Dawson county. The
catsle were raised on farms In the i'm
mediate vicinity OF Ethan and repre-
sented a value Of between $4,000 and
$4,000.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
Indicted Banker Dies.

John g. Jenkins, Brooklyn banker,
who with his three sons was indicted
as the result of q banking investiga-
ton which followed the recent finan-
cial panic, died a. Sea Cliff, long ISL
and, Thursday of paralysis.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
Corset Lacing Kills Woman.

Mrs. Carl Gunkle. of Bingham.
Utah, laced her corset so tightly that
she crushed her heart, caused the
blood to shoot to her head. and fell to
the floor in swoon, dying before aid
reached her.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
Score of FYremen Hurt.

A score Of firemen were injured.
several seriously, hundreds Of persons
driven from their homes and many
buildings threatened by fire early
Tuesday which destroyed q six-story
brick building at No. 3S West Eigh.
tcenth street. New York
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
First Auto in Jerusalem.

Charles Giidden. Of Boston. and
Mrs. Glidden arrived in Jerusalem
Friday In q motor car from Hafia.
Syria. II was the FIRST motor car ever
seen in Jerusalem and created q sen.
ssation among the popuiace.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
Six Peasants Killed.

Six peasants were killed and several
wounded in an encounter with de-
tachment Of police at the village Of
Kechetovka, Russia. The police went
into Kechetovka for the purpose of ar
resting two members Of the peasant
revolutionary organization.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
scrthern Cotton Mills Close.

Fifteea hundred operatives were az
fected by the closing down at New Or
leans, La, Friday Of the Lane Magin-
mis- cotton mills. A poor demand for
cotton goods was given as the reason
for the shut down.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
Fire Department.

The Pierre fire department has se-
lected as officers for the ensuing year:
Chief. F. L. Lnlibridge: frs. assistant,
e. j. Schultz; second assistant, Har-
vey Grenard; secretary, p. L. Dot,on:
treasurer. Robert Brandhuber.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
scho,ars Given Fire Dr,lIs

The public school children of MIL
bank have been given fire drills during
the past week and proves that with the
three good exits. the entire school can
pass out in less than two minutes.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-19
Indict American oaacer.

AuAcs nhCHichu OiucOf.
The grand Jury at Winnipeg, Minn.,
Wednesday returned true bill against
United States Customs Officer Fo,ilke
oa the charge Of kidnapping farmers.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06

FEEDING THEM EXOTICS.
can afford to sell em for quarter apiece They'll
be sef-supporting in and will hibernate all
winter among your summer clo'es, keepin' the
moths out of EN- and living a small quantity of
camphor.'
"lt sounds fine, says. 1T sure does!'
:.It is ,ine, he says. But there's more money
in big things. And the biggest thing of all is the
dtplodocus
The what?' says l.
The diplodocus' he says. It's REPTILE he
says or a mammal OF fish, bird or some
thing like that. 1 don't know what it is. But I'm
going to find out bust suspender trying An
drew Carnegie bought the skeleton OF one the 9TH
er day for twenty thousand nifty thousand dol
lars, something like that And If the skeleton is
worth that much the finished product ought to be
worth a million. So,' he announced, impressively,
I'm going to raise a herd of EN- for the home and
eggsport trade | figure that when / get EN- to
multiplying right, I'll have income of twenty or
thirty millions per annually. Ill work slow and Sc
cret at first selling stufred to the natural hist
'ry mooseums Then I'll branch out, taking zoolog-
ical gardens and circus menageries And after they
all get supplied can sell EN- for domestic animals.
They'd be fine for moving houses or towing canal
boats.'
well to stretch short story, the old gent took
a great fancy to me; and did to him. So when he
ofered me job helping him with the speciments.
took it and settled with him in the poured-out
villa. And though l nervous at first it wasn't
long before | got use to it and didn't mind it
more'n if I'd always lived in a psychopatihc ward
And Gehenna he used to have good times. too, play
ing with horsetriches and the kangaroosters.
''rhere was lot of animiles there that hadn't
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06

ems empty. Some OF ems full. But keeps my
eyes resolutely to the fore; for amt takin' no
chances. When party has set on the edge OF his
bed for weeks at time, throwing his boots at
blue jellyhsh with pink wings and plug hat, ne
learns that curiosity is curse and he don't pay no
attention to geological exoticsuntil 1t trips him
up But the burrer being denied the valyooble data
that is mine Immediately begins to rubber like an
up Slater in sightseeing truck with the result that
he becomes so obsessed with terrifying fears that
his legs won't work, and 1 has to carry him the
rest of the way And as we comes around tho cor
ner we sees setting before the door, an old man
teaching large hornpout to set upon its hind laigs
and beg.
After focusing my already bugged eyes on this
new spectacle, | begins to wonder If Gehenna him
self is trooly reef. So l kicks him; and when he
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06

seen He KEEP em in an immense corral around
the corner of the mountain. There some ele-
phants he was maxim over into mastodone and
mammoths and behemoths and things, and a two
laigged rhinocoros that was as big from here to
yonder and back.
I'VE used some of the fancy stock to start
dplodcus with. We had one biped that was worked
up through a, penguin to hippotamus that was a
peach. And another creation that was composed
Iof kangaroos, whales and And so on, by ard
uous unremitting, painstaking effort we began to
get results and after several years there came one
day something that looked whole lot liked the de-
sired fauna.
when it got big enough to balance itself with
having it's head and tail resting the ground, we
stood around one day looking at it.
There's something wrong" remarked old
Smith, loogoo brousy. 1T looks more Ikea cuspi-
do than diplodocus. What's ailin dyer 'spose?
"'You can search me, says 1t looks though
it had lost it's last friend, and that friend OWN it
money. l don't believe it's got enough initiative to
bite If you was to stick your finger in its mouth and
make faces at It,.
"Old Smith brought his hand down on his knee so
hard he liked to split the cap
you've hit it, he eggsclaimed. It's too mushy
and meek and lowly and humble looking. All them
things bred it through were soft and lumpy ami
miles like COWS and hippotamuses and things. It
wants a little bit o. fervor injected into it-some
stamia and gumption, by heck. We should have
mixed in the rhinoceros and the rogue elephant
That would straighten it up and stiTen it out and
make 1t a dipIodocus and diplodocus right
That's so,' agrees. Well insert the requis-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06
N9SN@NSNEEASENSN 6
Copyrighted 1908 by Thomas
n. Mckee.

life blood OF the scorpion with that of the cockroach,
and again crossing the combination with the taran-
tula eggspect in time to be able to insti into his
lovely little the instincts and flesh of the
sIoothhound and finally of my cultivated rhinoceros,
passing on my way through the lion the tiger, the
leopard the grizzly bear the rattlesnake, the Gila
monster, and the panther.
"'That1l make fine pet when you get it fin
ished, won't it? queries. It'll be nice thing to
replace 1apdogs with.
He ignores my untimely facetiousness
1t will add greatly to zoology" he asserts.
land subtract greatly from anthropology,' 1
suggests.
And it'll make fine watch dog he says.
".You're right agrees. The burglar will i'm
mediatcly begin to hump the dodo for first place,
and that's no le.'
"'Among my other interesting experiments he
he goes on, was crossing cat with a mouse. But
this wasn't entirely successful being when the
resultant animie grew old enough to find out what
1t was, 1t chasd itself to death.
~ have aso he goes on, intermingled the blood
OF horse and the ostrich, thereby securing max
imum speed with minimum of weight; and found
that the feathers you could get off horse would
pay for his keep; whereby got Edison's newly dis
covered storage battery which has been coming out
sence was a boy, beaten eighty ways for Christ
Also by weaving my way around through the
species of Gorden setter, COW, and giraffe, have
obtained a animile meek, intelligent, that gives
milk that will do simple little errands like fetching
you yer gloves and shutting the door, and that
well can be used to double advantage in the cherry
picking season.
- If you could get hen and egg beater in that
combination somewhere, ventured helpfully, for
l am getting heap imbued with his ideas by this
time, and hang bottle of good Four around its
neck all you'd have to do would be to whistle and
it would bring you neggnog any time you was
thirsty"
HE ignores cme. AT present. he says, I am
logical antidote Cats is parasites for mice Dogs
is parasites for cats.
:" L see!' l eggsclaims. Jest like drunkards is
parasites for whiskey, and pamc is parasite for
money
" That the idea, he approves, except that you
must stick to the fauna. Now he goes on take
moquitoes for eggsample. You live, say in Moo
Jersey, or Pelham Manor, or some other badly in
Tested State. Every time you go out on the piazza
after four o'clock, you're KEEP busy slapping your
laigs and neck that you can't in anything
eggcept profanity. Now just imagine what won
derrul priceless relief it would be If you could have
the back of your chair along the welts OF your
shoes, and nail the mosquitoes fast they come!
And then, when bedtime had arrived. they'd set on
your piIler beside your head and pop every dad
blamed stygomia that tried to tap blood vessel"
:" "'Fine!' agreed. 'lmmense!'
~ think so,' he acquiesced. complacently. We
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06
THH ONE GLIMPSE I HAS IS PLENTY

SUFFICIENT.
hold us making suicide pacts and picking mud tur-
ties out OF each others hair"
Poor Gehenna has all he do to get up on his
pins and we're very shaky pair as we wend our
way onward to the Edison concrete villa which
looked as though it had been made in an leo cream
mold and pourd out before it had time to set prop
erly
las we nears the colony of juvenile houses that
have before alooded to, sees that they're all
coops and cages of different kinds. Some OF EN-
has barred winders. some of 'em hasn't. Some OF
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06
ORDERS.

ORDERS.
,te blood and sperit This present disappointing
enactment though, will help to increase the stat
ure'
',WelI, that was what we done we got the olu
rogue elephant that that cantankerous tnat ne
had to be handled with derrick and dynamite ana
the rhinoceros who was a natural born misanthrope
and a tehter from the word go, and way behind
that and proceeded to go back along the family
tree OF our diplodocus and grated them on at what
we deemed suitable intervals.
You can imagine we some eggscited as we
waited Our first diplodocus wasn't no slouch
We'd had to build special barn for it that was as
big as the main tent of three-ringed circus; IL
would take you ten minutes to walk around it and
the longest ladder In the place wasn't long enough
to reach to It's ridgepole SO you can imagine that
our second was going to be some pumpkins. OLD
Smith had it all framed up that he wouldn't let him
go for cent under half Million and then only
after he had large family of descendants strewed
the valley.
..Weu he was right That second diplodocus
equaled and even eggsceeded our fondest hopes
He was SO big that his skeleton would make the
one Carnegie bought look like an X-ray photograph
of a dress form. 1t sure lowered above its mater
nal ancestor like the Singer building above the
subway,
ITO saw that Vertigo and delighted is
expressing it feebly We in transports of JOY
Ecstatc happiness oozed out of us at every pore'
and between and all that morning, we just TOOK
hold of hands and danced around our new dipodo-
Gus 1t was like playing Ring-Around-a-Rosy in
department store.
Day by day we watched our creation grow and ex-
pand both physically and mentally. Them big ami
miles, as a rule, are slow in machuring. But this
one was right UP to the speed limit In lessn
week he could stand alone He was weanod at three
months And after that it KEEP and Vertigo
busy fourteen hours day rustling enough proven
der to keep them two diplodocuses from starving to
Ceath.
.lo me tell yer, it some kind of parlous
Job was feeding them exotics. They had some dog
in them somewhere and from that the one had
a. ma bit OF waggng his tail; the old one was too
puny And rover (wed named the new one that)
smashed tho end of the house off one afternoon In
showing his gratitude for couple OF bales OF nay
we'd give him. Another day he knocked down
three of them giant redwoods and an orange tree.
We found some OF the oranges four miles down the
valley.
well, everything went along all right for about
six months. Me and Vertigo as happy as kit
tons under stove and Rover was thriving to beat
three of a kind Not cloud upon our hori-
zons We dweIt in the soft sunshine of sweet con-
tent and wouldn't have swapped places with the
Czar of all the Rooshias and some of the Rooshians
That's always the way I've noticed. It's always
serene Just before something's doc to be handed to
you the place where it will hurt the worst When
ever things is going along castors and your lik
ing yourself particularly WE'LL and feeling particu-
lary good, and beginning to believe that the Golden
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06

w We looked up from his paper.
.This Burbank guy" he said, Is sure
wonder. amt her.
n .A [ nodded
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-02-01
Didn't Even Need Rakinq,

During the discussion of the Meden
bill for cheaper gas in the Michigan
legislature Congressman Lcgare told
the following story of a cook he had
brought from home with him She
was a splendid servant. but she didn't
iaow anything about gas to cook with,
% he went to the Kitchen with her to
tNpIain about the range. so that she
could see how 1t operated he lit each
Of the many burners While still cx-
planning n message called him from
the Kitchen, and he left her. saying, Il
guess you will find it will work all
right now, Martha" He didn't see the
cook again for four or five days; then
upon entering the Kitchen he said,
well, Martha, how's that range do
ing?" To his utter CONSERVATION she
replied: "'Dced, sir. that's the best
stove l ever did see. That fire that
YOU kindled for me four days ago Is
still a-burning, and it amt even low
cred once. "-lrogroSSiVe Age.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-02-01
Feedino Pet Flowers.

come and see me feed my flower
pets" he said.
And he led the way. bearing some
chopped raw fish in a saucer, to a
huge aquarium. The bottom of the
aquarium was covered with flowers.
In the silent submarine garden clumps
of beautiful bright growths, yellow,
white, pink, blue, swayed gently in the
clear water
watch" he said. and he thrust down
a small morsel of fish on a rod. I'M
gcdlately a white flower like a daisy
drew toward the fish, bending on its
stalk. 1t wrapped its petals, like slim
white fingers, about the food.
Another" he said, and this time a
yellow flower bent forward and took n
morSel.
isn't it wondcrful?' he cried. "Liv-
ing. thinking flowers! Before they
knew me they would turn qway-they
would smut all their petals tight when
tried to feed them. But they are my
friends now, these sea aiemones."-
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-02-01

Now. if YOU have never rCcfpl Il miz-
zen or ii%gcr, as we generally call it,
on Il small boat running off under Il
press of sail In Il ScaW@y. you have
never done an acrobatic stunt that
knocks out the most thrilling fcatS of
the arena 1t is not so bad rs laying
out on the hcadSpar to shift a lib
because the wet is left out. and there
fore 1t Is job not so dctcStCd by
Seamen. Working on the hoWSprit is
most dreaded Of all sea jobs More
men lose their lives off that spar than
from all other parts of the ship to-
GcthcT Driving along she takes a
PLUNGE into 1t, at the same time the
heavy foot of the sail bangs across,
knocking off your hold, and overheard
you go TO be swept under and tr0dlen
upon by the swift rushing forcroot. a
dark night on a jib boom with Il half
nuzzlcd sail stormirg about and the
spar end pitching, buCking and forking
the brine mt every plunge there may
be nasticr places; If so, they have new
er crossed my hawSe.-T. T. Day In
Outing Magazine
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-02-01
The Inspiring "Rebel Veil"

To know truly what the rebel yell"
was one must have heard it with the
din and the roar of the rifles and the
thunder of the artillery; with the
shricks of the wounded and the groans
of the dying; must have seen mother
earth being dlsCoIorcd with the rich
blood of yalorouS men. when Greek
joined Greeks, then was the tug of
war; when Americans met Ameri-
cans, it was then the "rehel yell" was
given birth. 1t was a thing to inspire
brave men to action, to give resolution
strength; to the coward 1t was a con-
Stunning terror. The man who could
stand unbalanced In the face of the
real rebel yell" in the days of It's
strength may justly lay claim to a
courage that knows no falterng. -