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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
RULING PLEAsEs THE
POST CARD CoIlEcropc

Washington, April 7.-As a result Of
numerous complaints of postal and
postcards being defaced hy tina
ing. the postmaster general has ordered
n discontiauance of postmarkiny
cards at the office address. The postal
card fad has reached enormous proper
tions and the new ruling is expected by
postal officials to be received with de-
light by thousands of collectors.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
MiTCHELL TOO Ill TO
TAKE JOB PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT OFFERS

Washington, April 6.-John Mitchell
Workers OF America, called an the
president today. On leaving the Whita
House he said the president had offered
MN q position as special Commissioner
70 study and report upon labor condi.
IONS on the panama canal and SO on.
MI. Mitchell said he does not wish to
aeeept the offer ii was necessary for
could take UP work Of any kind.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
SOUTH DAKOTA MEN
ON ATLANTIC FLEET

Washington, April Fol
lowing is the list of the South
Dakota men in the crews of the
Atlantic battleship fleet which
will encircle the globe:
Andover-Seeley, H. H.
Armour-Lee, Don l..
Bonesteel-Gibsop, Jesse Jas.
Bradley-Nervig. Conrad A.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Frank E.
Clark-Hurlbut, Eugene P.
Eagan, Landon, Mark R.;
Sherman, Charles M.
Farmer-Murray, William F..
Huron-Monroe, w. H.
Mitchell-Emerson, Lyman
G.; Emerson, Ralph W.; Olson,
Arved l..
Madison-Nerdahi, Carl J.
Sioux Falls-Armstrong. C.
O.; Ehl. II. G: Everson, Palm
er j.; Wall, Harry F.
Violin remnant, Edward:
Landon, G. G.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
iNERRlATE HOSPITAL
RANDY FOR cONGREss

Washington. April IA bill making
drunkenness in the District OF Colum.
bia q m-isdemeanor and to provide
therein a hospital for inebriates was
in h House by Mr.. smith,
OF michigan. chairman of the commit
bill fixes as punishment d rnaxim,,n,
me OF 500 or a maximum incarcera-
tion for two years in the inebriate hos
pital. or both.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
AUTOMOBILE CRANK
MAINS CHAUFFEUR

Armour. S. D.. April Julius
GerioueX. a livery and garage
proprietor of his city, met with
a peculiar accident yesterday.
He was preparing to convey a
party of travelling men to a
nearby town and threw the
starting lever of the auto for
ward to start the machine, but
failed to throw it far enough,
with the result that the lever
when released flew back, strik-
ing him on the right wrist, COM
pletely smashing it. 1t is thought
that the cause of the accident
was the choking of the cylinder
with gas. He had taken out d
policy taccident) in an insur-
ance company for several hum
dred dollars a couple of days
before the accident
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09

Lieutenant General Francois .Io,,her-
Fienaar, who worried the British forces
exceedingly during the Roer war. but
Who is a most loyal subject of Edward
VII nowadays. Is coming to Washing
ton 70 have an audience with the presi-
cert, and to see II he cannot interest
Mr.. Roosevelt in his crusade against
slavery and its kindred atrocities in
the Portuguese colony of Angola ia West
Africa.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
MINNESOTA
OIL DEPARTMENT.

st. Paul, MINI, April e.-Attorney
General Young today announced that
he would order without delay a COM
plete investigation Of the state oil in
spectiOn department.. Mr.. Young said
there was undoubtedly a shortage ris-
ing out of moneys wrongfully paid to
Oscar Tenkenoff, the st. Paul deputy
Inspector. n that he would demand
It's return to the state treasury.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09

Having been fined for neglect of duty.
. postal subordinate in India addressed
mis- chief in he following terms: Your
honor may be right, / may b. wrong;
may be right and your honor wrong.
let honor give me back the fine, and
Their at day OF resurrection, when ali
hearts will be open, if / am wrong. /
will most gladly, sir, return your honor
the money"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
PARTNERS IN CRIME
UNITED IN THE PEN

Huron, S. D., April 4.-Sheriff Young,
Wednesday morning, took Charles
Mamie and his wife, Margaret Msnnie.
to the penitentiary at Sioux Falls.
Mamie n his wife were convicted of
keeping a house of ill fame and he was
sentenced to a term of two years and
his wife one year in the state prison.
They We're also convicted of perjury
ano each sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
TIMES STOP
WORK OF CHARITIES

New York, April 4.-Owing to current
financial conditions. MISS Helen Gould
has been compelled to close two Of
her favorite charitable institutions.
Woody Crest and the Lyndhurst Club
Industrial school, both situated at Tar
IytoWn, N. J. The $4,000 Industrial
school was closed today and the wtnA
dows and doors boarded up. Woody
Crest will be deserted the last Of The
NINTH. -
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
vANDALs DESTROY
JEWS MERCHANDISE

S%tickney, S. D.. April 7.-Vandals de-
stroyed the wagons and merchandise
OF two Jews who were operating a lit
tie store here and working through the
farming community. The property de-
strovcd was valued at $500, and a re-
ward of $50 is offered by the authori-
ties for the apprehension of the parties
who committed the crime.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
CRAWFORD NAMES MEDIN
AS BAILEY,S SUCCESSOR

Pierre, S. D.. April 4.-Governor Coz
/. Crawford has appointed John I.
Medin, of Sioux Falls, to the position
of county judge for the county of Min
nehaha, to hold Office until his sue
cessor has been elected and qualified
for office. This appointment is made to
fill a vacancy in the Office caused by
the death of the late respected D.. r.
Bailey,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09

Wissen feur ALE had a symposium to.
discuss b value of salt in digestion.
one o1 the physicians wrote that, while
81 moderation is good for the stom-
acn. and often absolutely necessary. II
ought TO be taken apart from the
meals, N much the same way as medi-
! He bases his Judgment on tho
way arfifcial digestion proceeds in the
presence of marine sa1t
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
WILL SECURE HEALTH
BY LEGAL PROCESS

Sioux Falls, S. D., April AIRS. w.
Barkley Henry, a society woman of
Philadelphia, has come to Sioux Falls
for the benefit of her lungs. so she
says, but eport says that an attorney
arranged for the house which she is to
occupy, hence this one case does not
establish the reputation of the city as
a health resort.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
FIVE MORE SCHOOLS
ON ACCREDITED LIST

Pierre, s.. D., April THE high
schools at Vermillion, ~Brookings, Madi-
son and Webster, and All Saints school
at Sioux Falls, have been accepted as
accredited schools by the north central
association of colleges and secondary
schools which met recently in Chicago.
Tines make - schools in the state
whose standings are accepted in lieu
or examination by the higher institu-
tons of learning throughout the coun-
try,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09

In American secondary schools in the
year 1906 there We're 925, 1000 pupils
$4,000 at the public high schools and
only $4,000 at private schools of all
Kinds. Many thousands of these lat
Ter Were in the preparatory depart
1nents OF n numerous small colleges
all over the land, but largely in the
South and West. The majority were
IN the private schools in the large
cities.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09

"a new Bi1tish ~rapid-fre gun. de-
ecribed IN the March number Of Pom
mar Mechanics. contains eight barrels
arranged in two tiers OF rour and viii
s1iscnarge 46o shots q minute. Its great
her, which allows it to Sc Area fnr
IN unlimited time without becoming
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09

With a total population of 4%3,659,121,
the United Kingdom expended for
liquors Of all kinds during 1906 the sum
OF $S09. 6S1 ,S2a. or an average of $18
per capita. or this amour $495,1S7,316
was spent for beer. the quantity CON
eumed being 33,S91,101 barrels: $685.
xO1,812 for spirits. or SO, 302, 402 gallons;
Sb3,992,9 5l for wine, or 12,32S,691 gall
9 and 1929. $50 for other liquors, or
5000, 900 gallons.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
BiGAMIST MAKES HIS
ESCAPE FROM JAlJ

Plankinton, S. D., April 7.-Glenn
Starr, who was held i'm the county Jail
on a charge of bigamy, made his es-
cape last evening. He was accused
OF trying to force a young lady to mar
ry him in this state. while the bigamy
charge comes from Iowa.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09

Frederick a Erden's drama, The
Land" which had its first
performance before the Nederland Ton
eeivereeniging at Amsterdam recently.
has been the theme of considerable dis
cussion. A Berlin paper in it's account
of the first performance says: The
central feature of the play is a com
munist community. This and the con-
traSt shown between the Christian and
the anarchist view of the world and So
ciety can not fail to interest an audi
Ance."
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
HURON LAND OFFICE
is DISCONTINUED

Huron, S.. D., April 4.-The Trnited
States land office in ms city went ONT
of existence with the close of bust
ness yesterday, and today this ter
ritory becomes a part of the Pierre land
district.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09

From the year 1890 to the close ne
1906 22,840 men met death in the coat
mines OF the United States. Not since
1887 has the annual list numbered less
IMAM 1000, and each year the number
mas grown larger. In 1906 the fatalities
were z,O6l and 1907 when the figures
IRE all in and compiled, will number
more than that.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09

The Gaulois. of Paris, has been en-
PERTAINING it's readers with a patent
leather boot story. 1t seems that every
receives a pair of heavy boots. AT the
end of the period these articles are
worthless as far as the original pur-
pose is concerned, but they AVE act
ually increased in value. The old boots
are sold to the leather dressers, 1t is
said, as the conditions under which
they have been used make the leather
peculiarly adapted for conversion into
patent leather for dress shoes.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
WiNFRED WILL HAVE
A LOCAL EXCHANGE

Winfred. S. D., April A tele-
phone company has been organized
here and a local exchange will soon be
installed, with a number of rural lines
connecting the town with all parts Of
the county.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09

The work of cutting and polishing the
great Cullinan diamond for King Ed
ward has begun at the Ascher factory,
IN Amsterdam. 1T is expected that,
nearly a year will elapse before the
process san be completed. The diamond
IN the rough measured four and a half
Inches across No visitor is now al
lowed to enter this part of the factory
without identification. The work goes
on IN a strong room closely guarded.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09

The earnahuba palm of Brazil is said
to be the worlds most useful tree. 1t
gives everything from medicine to cat
tie food. Its roots make a valuable
drug, a blood purifier. Its timber takes
. high polish and is in demand among
cabinet makers for fine work. The sap
becomes Wine OF vinegar, according to
the way 1t is prepared, and starch and
sugar are also obtained from this sap.
The fruit of the tree is a cattle food,
the nut is a good coffee substitute and
the pith makes corks.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
Writing from Jerusalem TO a friend

Writing from Jerusalem to a friend
In New York, Adolf Stirner, who made
a tour of the United States last year to
study economic and social conditions,
says: Il know the energy and the
creative power of your people. New
states, great railroads., monster works
of engineering and architecture are,
taken as matters of course and eXoitel
little But when | see what
As being don here l must reserve a
fraction Of enthusiasm for the people
OF Jerusalem. They are not goaded on
by competition, and their surroundings
make for incidence and stagnation.
Nevertheless. a spirit of progress has
developed which commands respect. II
you lived here you would know what a
new house in Jerusalem means, and
you would stand aghast, as / did when
! was old that 200 had been completed
In the last three months"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
WOMAN DEMANDS BALM
DAMAGEn NAME

Springfield. S. D., April "A suit
has been filed here by Miss Amanda
~Skoagiand against Lee Michel, asking
for $4,000 damages for alleged Islander
to the good name of the plaintiff.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
HOW TREE CULTURE
ENHANCES VALUES

Yankton, S. D.. April ga lesson i'm
the value of tree culture may be gath
cred from the report of the state horti-
cultural society. 1t is stated that c.
V. Gardiner had a grove of five acres
planted TO ash 10 years ago n he has
been offered 49, 900 for the five acres He
estimates that 10 years from now each
tree viii be worth g, and this would
amount to $4,500 per acre, or 500, 500 for
the patch.
George H.. Whiting, of Yankton.
bought In 1891 a tract of land contain
ing III acres of cottonwood trees. from
which he has taken his fire wood sold
many posts n $4,000 feet of umbe
and he still has $50, 900 feet of lumber
which he values at $40 per 1000.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-09
S. D. BARD OF PHARMACY
WILL HOLD EXAMINATION

Dell Rapids, S D., April 6.-The board
or pharmacy will hold an examination
for candidates at Aberdeen April 90.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-22
SEND $50 FOR FRESH AIR
Tribune Fund to Start Another
Party for Utica To-day.

The Tribune Fresh Air Fund sent 10 boys anu
girls from the crowded city districts to temporary
country homes yesterday. 1t will be the nrst eA-
perience in rural life for many OF them
The young women who working with the
parents and children in their homes the East
Side and in other sections OF the city preparing the
way for the passing of the boys and girls by the
examining physician have their hands full All
natonalities are represented among the applicants
all religions and all degrees of personal preferences
In the question personal cleanliness Certain pre-
liminary regularity in the taking of baths is re-
oured. Sometimes the idea does not appeal with
allurng glamour TO the parents asked to supervise
the rubbing down to the child elected to be
rubbed.
In many the bathing programme is looked
upon as considerable OF bore. to be undertaken
only because of the wistful yearning OF the not
overly strong boy girl for two weeks IN the
country. 1t is a land OF mystery to most of them.
to be found Just around the bend IN the railroad
track provided-and this knowledge inspires to
many Iavings In water and sustains IN an other
wise doubtful pieasure-the examining physician
says: This child is clean and all right You may
go. Run aong and tell your mother to get you
ready"
Among ninety seven children examined yester-
day by the physician at the parish house OF the
Good VIII Chapel at No 500 East SD street only
failed TO pass. Arrangements were promptly
made to supply medicine to put him In Mt condi-
tion Join 4 later party.
More than a hundred children VIII depart to-day
for Utica where a COMMITTEES viii distribute the
boys and girls several farms near that city
T. Carroll Davis wrote from the Eunice Home,
at Chapel Hill. N J.. that boy seeing a grass
hopper for the first time asked II 1t was "a roach
with wings on" Another boy. he says. surprised
them by saying he had almost been sent TO college
But 1 better kid now" he added IL was
learned that to him college and reformatory were
synonymous.
One of the larger boys kept a diary during his
two weeks at Chapel HILL At the end Of each day
impressionistic picture of his new environment he
wrote happy" 1t therefore appears that for two
weeks least and at an extremely slight expen-
ditur, cone boy gained the end of all striving.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-22
HEROIC CAMPAIGN EFFORTS.
A Carolina Appeal for Sinews of War.

From The Charleston News and Courier.
First of all the Democratic newspapers THE
News and Courier called for contributions to the
democratic campaign fund. perceiring that only
siderable service 10 the cause Of Mr.. Bryan and
of that other man who is on the ticket Talk is
twenty-five minutes when he has has nothing better
face when subscription list is presented with
humility by some Democrat who could not be in
who would help TO elect him. We could rave in
two columns of adulation each day Of Mr.. Bryan
we strive for is Bryan and victory, which cannot
be achieved without money: sound money dollars
Of =, el,s PARTY with s0o '0ii"fs anywhere IN the
We have foreseen and with reluctance adver-
south Carolina Democrats for the Bryan cause
What we na %anS We io want it quick Now is the time
70 subscribe. We 1nd no pleasure in this mendi-
cancy but speak earnestly and frankly, we
would rather coin our blood for drachmas than
to wiring fIom the hard hands Of Democrats
demand IL OF them: hold them up and tell
them te Duh5 do not @ cough So determined are we
in this emergency that we have tried to arouse
40 moi care a glass of soda water fve-cent
cigar whether the NeDrasksn be elected or not.
nth the unpleasant result that that arch Repub-
iicsn wretch The New-York Tribune twits
about it. as though It Were We're she BUSINESS esst q an
linians loosen up for Bryan M or not Mark how
Gratis makes merry at our expense. after quoting
from The News and Courier
This IS a distressing forecast OF indifference to
the appeals of the campaign collector Are South
Caroiinians dead TO patriotism, or do they only
intend by a prudent exhibition of Hbstention TO
show how the vexatious problem OF swollen cam
naign contributions can be put out of business?
IN htt " these vulgar and indecent
fces OF the gross Piutocrats be silenced, that
Is nv 2 response in postoffice orders and checks
"a the appeal of THE News and Courier" By the
Oemocrats of South Carolina. Let man send
ne more than thousand dollars for that would
be against the rule. Let no corporation. not even
an tncorporated newspaper such THE Laurens
Advertiser send any money at all. for that also
would wound Mr. BRYAN but let every individual
Democrat send contribution as liberal as he can
\ 70
| Ia promptly acknowledged-so that we may put
The Tribune and other mephitic railers TO rout
and shame. 80, .
Not less than one hundred thousand dollars from
| .this grand old state" is needed to demonstrate
.ha+ the BRYAN enthusiasm that instructed the
delerates is genuine. and grab-bag methods should
not be necessary TO raise I'll
New-York tribune., 1908-07-22
JAPAN REARMING WARSHIPs.
Heavier Guns for Battleships-
New Vessels Planned.

Toxic. eJuy 3-The Japanese Admiralty has de-
cided instead of building ships. TO alter the
ornaments of the present vessels so as TO Drins
them in line with modern ideas and requirements
indicated by the war with Russia. Warshps OF
the Mikasa type, which have hitherto carried four
Pinch guns and fourteen 6-inch guns, Will hence
forth carry four I0-nch instead OF fourteen 6-inch
so that their principal armament Will be brousnt
I'M 70 eight pieces of heavy calibre, doubling their
fighting strength Similarly in the case of vessels
like the Retvsan taken during the war. thelr
new armament will consist of four Pinch and four
1o-inch pieces the latter being substituted for the
twelve 6-inch, which these vessels originally car
ried.
First class cruisers are to be added to the navy.
These ships will have displacement OF 1859 TOMS
with horsepower of 400 and a speed of % knots
They will be 450 feet long over all. with " teet
beam and a draft Of 26 feet Their arInor VIII De
seven inches and their armament Will consist Oh
ten Pinch guns One of these ships Is to be built
at kure.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-22
FLEET TO SAIL TO-DAY.
Fire Thousand Men 4shore-Ihe
Nebrasha's Cre7C Released.

Honolulu JuIy 21-The Atlantic battleship
fleet has finished coalng, and preparations are
being made to resume Its journey around the
world tomorrow. The flagship Connecticut
will leave her wharf at 2:30 p. m tomorrow
and the fleet Will raise anchor and sail at s
D.
Five thousand men from the fleet had shore
leave to-day There was an excursion to Pearl
Harbor for the officers this afternoon and to-
night ball given in honor of the sailors
and marines The days festivities closed with
fireworks and illumination of the fleet.
1t has been arranged that the hospital ship
Relief shall accompany the fleet to the an
tipodes and that the Minnesota shall remain
behind to await the arrival of mail which Is
coming from San Francisco the steamer
Virginia. and rejoin the fleet before 1t reaches
Auckland, N Il.
The board is still engaged in examining data
and preparing comprehensive scheme for the
navy yard at Pearl Harbor 1t is believed the
board will be ready to transmit its report TO
Washington tomorrow.
The wireless telegraph experts of the fleet are
comforting with the local wireless people over
plan to maintain communication With the fleet
after ii leaves this port.
The crew of the Nebraska officers and men,
have passed the bacterisADgical examination and
all have been released from quarantine restric-
tions. The ship is also released. Nine suspected
cases were transferred to the hospital ship Re
lief
A letter received from Brother Dutton at the
leper settlement the Island of Molokai ex-
presses the thanks of the unfortunate residents
for the opportunity given them to see the feet
as II passed the way here. The letter Is
addressed to Admiral Sperry and Governor
Frear and says: Our people are becoming bet
acquainted with Uncle Sam, and better
satisfied to be Americans"
New-York tribune., 1908-07-22
LOEB NOT GOING TO AFRICA.
No Decision Yet Reached on Presidency of
Washington Traction Company

Washington, July N.-William Loeb jr., secre-
tary TO President Roosevelt, denied tonight that
he was going to Africa with the President 10 hunt
big game
81 going TO Africa with the President" "
said Mr Loeb. NOR have I ever contemplated max
ing the trip with him"
Mr.. Loeb TO Washington from Oyster Bay
this afternoon attend a meeting of the directors
OF the Washington Railway and Electric Company.
He has been spoken of candidate for the
presidency of the company and II is believed that
this subject considered at the meeting
Has any decision been reached regarding your
selection for the presidency of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company" Mr. Loeb was
asked.
Not yet he replied.
Mr. Loeb left Washington for New York the
midnight train. accompanied by W. A. Hbbs,
director OF the traction company.