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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
SOUTH DAKOTA
STATE NEWS
TO- PAY SMALL DIVIDEND.
Dakota COurt DlG=oIy'S Mining Cor
pCrutiCn.

Dakota Court DlGso!v'S Mining Cor
pCratiCn.
Some months ag a petition was
filed in the Office Of the clerk Of the
circuit court for Pea1l@ county ~
trustees Of the stockh ,lders OF the TO
top Copper company for the diss oiu-
ton of hat organization. M"sers.
Crawford, Taylor & Fairbanks, of HUI
ron, are attorneys for the corporation
md have succeeded in securing its
dissolution and the winding UP Of its
affairs.
The property consisted of four lode
copper mining claims in the Rurro
mountain mining district, in Grant
county, N. NJ. The value C h prop
erty was variously estimated at from
$4,000 to any amount Imaginable.
The former figure, however, was the
amount realized f. m the sac Ct the
property to another company.
The records shDw that the tia!
number of outstanding shares Of the
capital stock Is t4.8S&,220.
The ale Of the mining claims % the
Rurro Mountain Copper contrary for
SIS. 900 has heen confirmed by Judge
Whiting, of the Ninth juoicial circuit.
After paying the expenses Of iis@0lu-
ton the amount payable t. each stock
holder, as shown by the records Of the
corporation. is S14.S9G. leaving I" each
shareholder Of the capital stock Of the
col for each dollar invested.
Notice was sent 20 all stockholders
advising them of the amount payable
Per share upon surrender Of THEN Ger
tificates of stock, will the eveCUtion Of
assignment thereon, to y. +. Green. Of
Chicago. secretary Of he board of
trustees. who upon receipt Of ceTtifi-
Gates will forward checks in payment
of the amount due on these certificates.
/ After April Is. 1905, certificates must
be sent to the clerk of the circuit . L
of Beadle county, at Huron, h by
the direction of the court, will Issue
checks for the amount u each stock
holder, basing his calculations at the
rate of .0O1 on every dollars worth of
shares. There have been returned and
cancelled certificates for 14,615,43o
shares.
There IRE 267,790 shares Of stock
held by persons whose addresses are
unknown and upon which there is to
be paid $267.79 by the clerk of courts
| for Peadle county, When n Ce"ti't-
| Gates of stock are surrendered to him
with the proper cancellatlOn-ore mill
on each dollar invested.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
FLOOD WORKS HAVOC
EVERY RAILROAD IN OKLAHOMA
THOUGHT TO sTANDsTILL.
Fall OF Twenty Inches In Ten Hour,
Making Total Of Morc Than Thirty
Inches In Thrcc Days-RailToad
Tracks and Bridges Swept Away.

Not a railroad in Oklahoma was In
operation Sunday night as a result OF
the heavy rains and cioudbursts that
had occurred in various parts Of the
state during the past three days. The
last road to suspend operations was
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas. which
was forced to quit at noon Sunday
when IN bridge on the main line at
Eufaula went down.
To add to the disaster the main
supplying natural gas to the Indian
Territory part OF the state was car
ried away with the GAINESVILLE bridge
late Sunday and the supply Of gas for
Muskogee and several other cities in
the southeastern part of the state a
been entirely cut off. officials of the
gas company say 1t will be a week be-
fore repairs can be made SO that the
gas supply can be carried. AS natural
gas Is used for light and heat bust
ness will be suspended in a measure.
Elevators have been forced to stop
running and hotels and restaurants
have practically been put out Of bust
ness.
During ten hours Sunday there vas
a rainfall OF twenty inches In that
section OF the state. The previous
fall during the past three days Of more
than ten inches contributed to the
damaging food.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
NEW YORK.

Weather, trade and crop reports are
irregular, warm days alternating with
heavy transforms, and retail and jobbing
demand has been of q ~fuctuating charac-
ter. There is evident, however, a meas
urable improvement in the tone of affairs,
commercial and industrial, a partial re-
Election, perhaps, of the better feeling in
financial lines. The most significant fea-
ture in actual trade circles is perhaps the
wider acceptance of the belief in the cot
ton goods trade that this branch of trade
has seen the bottom as to prices. There
are reports of d slight gain in orders by
wooden manufacturers and large auction
sales of carpets and silk ribbons have de-
veloped demand.
Best reports as to the improvement in
fall buying come from the larger centers
like New York, Chicago and st. Louis,
while current retail trade reports are best
in the Southwest and Northwest.
Agreements to maintain pig iron quota
tons having proved Intellectual, efforts to
peg the market at a steady level have
been abandoned. Therefore prices are
easier, and those who were bound by OBJ
legations are again in a position to take
business.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending May IA number PSI,
against 2SS last week, 1874 in the same
week of 1907, 161 in 1906, 191 in 1905
and 215 in 1904. Business failures in
Canada for the week number %, against
% last week and % in the corresponding
week of 19O7.-Bradstreet's Commercial
Report.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
MAE WOOD TO JAIL.
Abrupt END of Platt Suit Is
Sensational.

The case of Mae c. Wood, the Oma-
ha woman who sued United States
Senator Thomas c. Plat for divorce
came to a sudden and sensational end
Thursday afternoon when Justice
O'Gorman, Of the supreme court, dis
missed the complaint and directed the
complainant be committed to the city
prison under $1,000 ball on a charge
of perjury. Miss Wood was taken to
the Tombs.
The climax came after the introduce
ton in evidence of the deposition of a
man who manufactured the blanks
upon n Of which the alleged Platt-
Wood certificate had been prepared. in
which he declared that the blank form
in question was not autographed until
three months after the marriage of
Miss Wood to Plat is alleged to have
occurred. The senator's son., Frank H.
Plat, also testified that it is his belief
no such letters ever had been written
to Miss Wood by his father as were
represented in alleged copies offered
in court by the complainant. The case
has attracted exceptionally wide at
tention on %ccoun Of the prominence
of the aged senator and the names
Of other widely known persons whom
Miss Wood involved in her sensational
charge in support of her complaint.
Miss Wood was at once taken to the
Tombs prison. One the way she chat
ted laughlngly with the officers.
The commitment on the perjury
charge was made by Justice O'Gorman
On his own initiative. He lac person
ally questioned the complainant, who
had been recalled to the stand, and
when she reiterated her former testi-
mony regarding the marriage the jus.
tice said:
THE court cannot believe there was
a marriage. Being convinced of the
plaintiffs guilt in committing perjury
in the case, I commit her to prison
unless she furnishes $4,000 bail"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
1ME ZAAEB[NERS
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
s4.W to $7.35; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $3.50: sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $500; wheat, No. 2, $1.O1 to S1.O3;
corn, No. 2, 75c to TIC; oats, standard,
be to soc; rye, No. 2, SIC to SIC; hay,
timothy, $3.50 to $3.50; prairie, $500
10 $500; butter, choice creamery, tic
to 22c: eggs, fresh, 12c to lie; potatoes,
per bushel, Coo to 65c.
Observation-Disclosures, shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $685.; sheep, common to prime,
$500 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 99c to
800; corn, No. 2 white, CSC to 65c; oats,
No. 2 white, sic to SIC.
St. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $7.15; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $500 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, S1.O2 to S1.O4; corn, No. 2,
| Tic to 73c; oats, No. 2, sic to SIC; rye,
| No. 2, soc to sec.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 1913;
hogs. S4.OO to S5.75; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1.00; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 74c to 75c; oats, No. ?
mixed, SIC to sac; rye, No. 2, SIC to Soc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $40; sheep, $3.50 to S4.75;
| wheat, No. 2, 99c to S1.OO; corn, No. 3
yellow. 7ec to TIC; oats, No. 2 white,
SAC to SIC rye, No. 2, SIC to Soc.
New York-Cattle, $500 to 5000:
hogs, $3.50 to 5000; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.03 to $1.04;
| .orn. No. 2, 74c to 76c; oats, natural
white, SIC to 5Sc; butter, creamery, 21c
to o3c; eggs, western, 13c to lie.
Milwaukee-Wheat No. 2 northern,
S1.O7 to S1.O9; corn, No. 3, 75c to I6c;
oats. standard, J4c to soc; rye, No. 1,
s3c to SIC; barley, No. 2, 74c to 75c;
pork, mess, $13.3o.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to S7.05 hogs, fair to choice, $500
TO $50; sheep, common to good mixed,
si.qa to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice.
$500 to $500.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 96c to
orc: corn. No. - mixed, Ic to I6c;
oats. No. 2 mixed, SIC to SIC; rye, No.
2, soc to Sic; clover seed, prime, $780,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
LAMPHERE is INDICTED.
Seven True Bills Against Mrs. Gun
ness Alleged Accomplice.

Y "a &hSahAhoc 4Ahcs "
ness Alleged Accomplish.
In returning seven true bills against
Ray Lamphere Friday afternoon the
Laporte grand jury also indicted Mrs.
Guinness for the murder of Andrew
Helgelein, Of Mansfield, s. d. No war
ran was issued for Mrs. Guinness, as
she was declared officially dead by the
verdict of Coroner Mack, but In order
to vote a true bill against Lamphere
as accessory in the killing of Helgelein
1t was necessary to indict Mrs. Gun
ness as the principal. Lamphere now
stands before the bar OF justice official
ly charged with arson, five murders
and being an accessory In the Hedge
lein murder.
The digging Friday resulted in the
~unearthing of a human skull which it
Is believed belongs to one of the bodies
dug up In the chicken yard two weeks
ago. At that time three skeletons
We're found in one hole, but there
were only two skulls. The skull found
Friday was in a cesspool, and why it
was dropped there and the rest of the
body buried in the little cemetery the
cannot explain. Long hair
attached to the skull is considered ev-
idence that it is tina of a
One Of the three dismembered bod
les referred to was that Of a female.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
IN GUS
Crumpackcr Scores with Blu Aimed at
South.

South.
A campaign contribution publlclty
bfll, ~embodying an amendment by Mr.
Crumpacker, OF Indiana, providing for
q reduction in the representation in
the house of representatives in those
states having Acknowledgement laws,
was passed by the house Friday by u
vote OF 165 to 1875, following a lively
debate. The measure was brought up
under suspension Of the rules, and for
ty minutes were allowed in which to
discuss It The southern members in
particular were bitter in their denun-
citation Of the apportionment provision
of the bill.
Mr.. Williams, the minority leader,
was especially vigorous in his attacks.
'characterizing the bill as being an at
tempt to revive the conditions Of re-
construction days
After the Crumpacker amendment
had been adopted the democrats voted
against the bill in its entirety. In
brief the provision regarding publicity
OF campaign contributions is made APP
plicable to the national committees
and the national congressional COM
mittee of all political parties and all
committees, associations or organiza-
lions which shall in two or more
states influence the result of an cleo
ton at which representatives in con-
gress are to be elected.
The Crumpacker amendment pro-
vides for the re-enactment of certain
sections of the old federal election
law, except that the idea of the un-
enacted force" bill, authorizing the
use Of troops at the polls, is eliminat-
ed. ..
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
RAIL HORROR IN BELGIUM.
Worst Disaster of the Kind in Hery
History.

The worst railroad catastrophe eve
recorded in Belgium too place e
Contich, six miles southeast of Ant
werp, Thursday morning. The Ant
werp Express, running fifty miles per
hour, crashed into a train loaded with
pilgrims on a siding. Three cars were
literally ground to pieces, and practi-
cally all the passengers either killed
or badly injured.
Up to an early hou Thursday ALERT
noon SO dead and 10 wounded had
been removed. The occupants of the
cars were mostly workmen and peas
ants.
Succor was extended to more than
100 injured. Surgeons, doctors and
nurses arrived early from Antwerp at
the scene of the wreck. Many Shrek
ing and helpless, wounded persons
are still pinned under the debris The
scene is n of horror and beggars
description.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29

@s+aaHiAnD SSHA
Iagss I7
4FNHNClAL~
CHICAGO.

Thu mortality in business now SHOWS
less than a year ago, but the volume oh
payments through the banks again lur-
,ishes an ~unfavorable comparison, anu
he State bank exhibits reflect turtner
billing I'D of deposits and unemployed
funds. The latter conditions appear as d
natural result of curtailed commercial
operations and are less disturbing than
the spread of labor troubles in the coal
fields and the purpose to advance rail-
road freight tariffs.
The situation In the leading Industrial
branches has become no worse, but the
uncertainty as to the trend OF costs ana
the paucity of demands for finished pro-
ducts add to the hesitation III making IN
portant contracts.
Weather conditions continued mostly
adverse to seasonable activity in dlstrlpu-
tive dealings and local retail trade was
irregular. More favorable reports as to
the consumption of general merchandise
come from the interior and buying would
be even better were the rush of delayed
farm work less pressing.
Visiting buyers in the wholesale dis
trict are not now expected in large mum
bers, as necessaries have been obtained or
provided for, but the current buying Is
yet good in staples, although confined tc
absolute needs. Mail advices indicate
that road statesmen meet with less dlth'
Guilty in securing substantial orders II
fall and winter goods. Continued ease
in money is making collections generally
prompt.
Transportation returns testify to fur
Their falling off in the offerings of freight
by both rail and lake. Local building
| operations steadily extend and there is
more heavy construction being planned.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
| trict number "a, against SO last week anc
26 a year ago Those with liabilities
over $1,000 number Z, against 8 last weeE
and 4 in 19O7.-Dun's Review of Trade
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
ACCUSED OF KILLING SIX.
Michigan Man Arrested o. Wholesal,
Murder,

Murder.
James Brimmingstall, aged 40, is
under arrest at Dowagiac. Mich.
charged with six murders.
The police say he already has con-
fessed to two. Prosecutor Bresnahan
is confident the prisoner will admit
that he has committed other crimes.
His arrest followed an alleged attempt
to make his wife his seventh victim.
She escaped and appealed to the po-
lice. The list of Brimmingstalls vic
Tins, according to the officers, are:
Man in Kansas; killed by Brimming-
stall when 16 years old.
Railroad man in Missouri, name I'M
known; Killed seven years ago.
Two men who were sleeping in a
tent in Missouri; names unknown.
David Ruff, Dowagiac, June, 1907.
Smith Hortium. Dowagiac. Feb
ruary, 1908.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
NO VERDICT IN HARBOUR CASE.
Jury Unable to Agree in Murder Trial
~ at Rapid City.

That the authorities are determined
to force Mrs. Mary Harbour, of Rapid
City, to stand a second trial for the
alleged killing of her foster daughter,
Rose Rosa. or Adams, as she was
known, was made plain by the state
ment of States Attorney Wood, who
declared tina he will at M set about
taking the necessary steps and procur-
ing additional evidence against the
woman. The jury in the first trial just
ended stood 7 to 5 for acquittal after
celebrating for forty-eight hours,
when they disagreed, and sentiment
is largely divided over the result. Mrs.
Harbour was almost Frustrated. as she
firmly believed that she would be ac-
quilted of the charge of numbering
the young school girl who since a baby
had called her mother. All efforts to
secure her release on bail have SO far
proved ~unavailing.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
PRIMARY LAW TANGLE.
Many Features 30 Up to Worry
County Officials.


AS the provisions of the primary
election law are being applied, features
which werc not thought of at the time
the law was passed are makins 'helr
anpearance. In Lyman, under the
primary law. it is necessary to noml-
nate their candidates for county COM
m]issioners at the June primaries. An
other law requires the county com
missiOners at their July meeting OK
this year to divide the county upon
population. When the fOrme: DIVISION
+ the county into commissioner dis
tricts was made. most of the population
vas in the east end of the county ana
the western end was sparSelE settieu.
Now the settlement is as heavy IN the
western end as it is in the eastern
end, and a new division into districts
on population will mean large dis
tricts in the eastern part of the county
and smaller in the western part, n
the question before the people is how
to select candidates in June when they
will not know until July where the dis
trict ines will be.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
BANDITS HOLD UP TROLLEY.
Take Up collection of s125 from Crew
and Passengers.

4ahC VI SoiASStIoh VI @l@O lIO1u SECNS
and Passengers.
Not satisfied with the 1925 in cash
and two watches secured from the
conductor. motorman and nine pas
on a car OF the West Penn
Electric railway near Boston, a small
town between McKeesport and Eliza
beth, which they held up, two masked
highwaymen a short distance from
the robbery halted John Mowry, a
farmer, and his wife and relieved them
of sis. Mowry's horse was stopped
n he aNd his wife dragged from the
buggy. They were obliged to stand
until searched and then allowed to
drive away.
OF the eleven men on the car when
1t was stopped, not one carried a re-
'volver and not one showed any dispo-
sition to resist the demands Of the
~desperadoes. One man hid $50 in his
shoe and saved It. Others concealed
watches. Detectives have no clew on
which to work.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
From Day TO Day Condensed
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
DEADWOOD FEDERAL COURT.
Several Criminal Cases for Trial Be
fore Judge Garland.

oIt ctltSc NlTihIhh.
The May term of the United states
district court is now in session at
DeadWOOd with Judge Garland on the
bench. There are several important
cases to come up. the chief of when IS
that of Cashie Horras, of the Hot
Springs National bank of Hot Springs.
Young Horras is accused of bein
short $4,000 of the banks funds. He
IS barely &c years of g and has not
resided long at Hot Springs. His
wealthy father, who lives in Indiana,
has come to his sons aid and is light
ing the embe2zlement charge.
DeMarsh and Monte, who were in
Gicted at the Sioux Falls term for
horse stealing, will be put on trial. 1t
IS alleged that the two men were the
active heads of a gang OF morse
thieves hat operated extensively
throughout the central part of the
state for some time past, disposing or
the stolen stock on the Indian rcsef-
VatiOns. According to the government
officials DeMarSh has a bad criminal
record and Il string of witnesses are
prepared to testify to numerous theftS.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
Robbers Kill Chicagoan.

Robt. p. Holmes, a purchasing agent
of the Commonwealth-Ed Edison Electric
company, of Chicago, was found dead
with the marks of garrotcrs on his
neck and his face black from strang-
ulation in a downtown ally early
Thursday. His person had been dives
ted of all its valuables.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
GEORGE Glover is in Jail.

George Washington Glover, son of
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, came to Dead
wood from Lead Friday evening to see
that place by night. An hour later a
policeman hunted him up and told him
to remove a fractions horse to a livery
barn. Glover insisted this was not his
wishes, an alteration arose, the Off
GERS placed him under arrest, and
Glover spent the remainder of the
night in Jail.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

Busts of Franklin and Washington
have been placed in the American en-
bassy in London.
Fire at the jamestown exposition
grounds destroyed the arts and crafts
village and other buildings.
The massacre of 1000 persons and the
pillaging of t~hirty-six villages by kurds
is reported from northern Persia.
A design has been selected for New
York City's skyscraper, in which are to
be housed most of the municipal depart
ments.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
Billion Dollar Congress.

The sixtieth congress will have
earned the title of a billion dollar
congress" at its first session before
adjournment. 1t is etimated that the
total appropriations will reach the
enormous sum of S1,026, 900. 900, which
is a to be the largest amount ever
appropriated at a single session.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
FALLS UNDER A TRAIN.
a Mitchell Young l. is Very Serious
Nv Hurt.

William Scheurenbrand, of Mitchell,
is lowering between life and death as
a result of an accident which befell
him at Plankinton while attempting to
board a freight train. He tried to
climb into a car, but lost his hold and
fell under the wheels. One leg was
practically cut off, his left leg dislo-
Gated, and he was bruised abou the
head and eyes. He was taken to Mitch
ell and his leg was a~mputated.
A year ago the young man was Sc
verely injured in California, when a
brick wall collapsed and fell on him,
and he had not fully recovered from
that injury. His father is a prominent
cement block manufacturer and was
with his son when the accident oc-
CURED.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
KEYSTONE Is SWEPT BY FIRE.
with No Wafer Available. Flames Eat
Up Business Houses.


Up Business Houses.
Keystone, a large mining town
twenty miles to the southwest Of Rapid
City, suffered q severe loss Friday
evening by fire. The fire started il
the club rooms on Main street about
$3.50 and as it was impossible to secure
water the fire soon got beyond control.
The entire east side of Main street
from Shoemaker's barn north for two
blocks was destroyed. The amount of,
loss has not yet been. ascertained, but
it must have been considerable, as the
area covered by the fire was solidly
quilt up. The bank, hotel and princi-
pal business houses on the opposite
side Of the street were saved, although
the windows We're cracked and the
buildings badly blistered by the heat.
Unit the Holy Terror min shut
down a few years g Keystone was
one of the most prosperous gold min
Ing own in the west. Other mines in
the vicinity had made arrangements to
start up and conditions were !snprov-
ing when this disaster occurred.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
TWENTY PEASANTS HANGED.
Extreme Penalty inflicted for Agrarian
Rf0tS in RusSio

Extreme Penalty inflicted for Agrarian
Riots in Russia.
Twenty Russian peasants who too
part in recent disorders in Yekateri-
noslav district were hanged at Kher-
son under decree of a courtmartial.
They belonged to a peasant associa-
ton the avowed object of which was
to drive out landed pr%oprietors by the
burning of their estates. The resort
to the death penalty for agrarian out
RACES is a new departure, flogging and
short terms of imprisonment having
been the usual punishments evening
during the great disorders of 1906.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
Another Fire Victim.

The body OF Louis Bender. Friday.
was found in the ruins of the Winter
meyer box factory. burned at Chicago
Thursday. The relatives of eight men
employed in the factory reported to
the police that they had not returned
their homes.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-29
Arrested for Mining Fraud.

q. Chaplin Gard, mining promoter
with offices at Denver, Colo, who was
indicted by the federal grand jury on
the charge Of using the mails in fur
therance of schemes to defraud. has
been arrested.