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CAPITAL SOCIETY IN FURRY.
Matrons Said to Be Jealous Of Mrs
Meyers Entertainments.

Is Washington society-the official
society Of the national capital, at least
Jealous of one of it's foremost mem
bers? With the resumption of social
gayeties this question, which formed
the basis Of many a choice bit OF Cos.
sip during the winter, and which main
tanned it's interest even through the
quiet Lenten season, will doubtless be
vested witt a new Importance, just as
society itself has become respondent
in it's new spring apparel.
Not only Mayfair, as the more frivo-
lous term the fashionable precincts
Of Dupont circle and the western hills,
but all Washington has been i'm
pressed with the brilliant but exclu-
eive social campaign and the regal
Postmaste General George L. Won
Meyer. And, it is generally whis-
pered in capital circles, not a little
jealousy and heartburning has been
e%ngendered thereby.
Mrs. Meyer has entertained IN a
scale that has been the wonder and
despair of official Washington. Fresh
from triumphs in two European courts
she has invested her functions with a
splendor and an atmosphere Of ex-
clusiveness hitherto almost unknown
in a republican capital.
1t is said that at the Meyer house
are entertained more distinguished
house guests than at any residence in
Washington, outside, of course, Of the
White House. And humanity has not
progressed to the stage where secret
envies and gnawing jealousies have
been banished from the heart.
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PATENTS.
List of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern inventors.

Reported by Lothrop & Johnson,
patent lawyers, go Pioneer Press
building, st. Paul, Mimi: c. w. Bar
ber, Red Wing, Mimi, journal box; j.
Z. Carlson, Vermillion, S. d., dipping
car; T. D~ougherty, Minneapolis,
Mimi, grain bin; f. Lindblad, Kost,
Mimi, cream pump; w. B. Seymour,
Kennebec, S. D., folding square; N. S.
Stalker, Duluth, Mimi, grain car door;
L. A. Wheelock, Waseca, Mimi, rail-
way gate.
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Deferrinu the Evil Day.

Her Friends lin chorus) - But
what's your idea in not letting him
propose?
She-Well, as soon as we are n
gagged it will be my duty to make him
economic!
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No Further Proof Needed.

Ranter-I thought this paper was
friendly to me?
Editor-So it is. What's the matter
now?
81 made a speech at the banquet
last night and you didn't print a line
of it,"
well? What further proof did you
want of our friendship"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-08-06

Beware Of the spinster who asks
you for a match during leap
year
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-08-06

Dakota
General
state
News I'm
Paragraph.

The Ute Indians who gave so much
trouble at Thunder Butte last winter
started last week overland with a cav
airy escort for their reservation In
Utah.
C. NJ. Henry Of Sioux Falls has been
appointed by Gov. Crawford as state
Inspector Of warehouses and scales, TO
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Olaf Paulson.
Mrs. OWE Hanson, living a rev
miles northeast Of Sisseton, is dead
as the result of the explosion of a
gasoline stove. Mrs. Hanson was so
badly burned hat she died.
Pleading guilty to burglary in the
third degree, John Burns, a miner,
was arraigned in the circuit our at
Deadwood and sentenced by Judge
Rice to ten months in the %peniten-
tiary.
The state insurance department has
admitted to the state the Jefferson
Fire Insurance Company of Philadel-
phia, and the London Assurance AS
ISOLATION has again been admitted in
the state, after having withdrawn for
several years.
The b~usiness men and other resi-
dents of Spencer, a progressive little
town northwest of Sioux Falls, in Nc
Cook county, are making arrange
ments to hold a harvest festival and
sports day some time during the
month of August.
Several hundred thousand pounds
of wool have been purchased at the
market in Mitchell during the last ten
days, and shows a great increase over
the amount produced last year. The
price for the commodity ranged be-
tween Is and 16 cents a pound.
Rev. F. p. Leach of Sioux Falls, gen.
eral secretary of the State Sunday
School association, will be one of the
principal speakers at the first annual
convention of the Stanley County Sun
day school association, which will be
held at Fort Pierre OF Sunday, Aug. 8.
Mrs. Frank Pinkham, wife of a
homesteader near Bonesteel, cut the
throats CT her two boys, aged fourteen
years and six months, and then com
mitted suicide by cutting her own
throat. Ill health is supposed to have
unbalanced her mind. The older lad
may possibly recove
The county commissioners of Bon
Homme county have adopted a resolu-
tiop ~instructing the county auditor to
arrange for submitting to the voters
of the county at the general election
on Nov. 3 next the proposition of is
suing bonds in the sun of $4,000 for
the construction Of a county court
house and Jail building.
:
In line with the larger towns in the
NOIliieII f1LllS, Tie mSIClldliJS Vi nap
id City have just agreed to the early
closing hour in all the principal bust
ness houses in Rapid City. The new
rule goes into effect at once, the
stores closing promptly at 6 O'clock
each evening, except Saturdays, when
they will remain open until 8 o'clock.
o.
Murray Tenhaten, a young man from
Wall. while attempting TO ride the
blind baggage on an early morning
train out of Pierre, fell as the train
pulled out of the yards and one leg
was so badly crushed on a pile Of tim
Der that ampatation was necessary.
He, in company with another man,
was on TIE way east to get work in
the harvest fields.
: &~ ~
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No man can sneak into heaven on
the strength of his tombstone cpl
taph.
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cAAprER <.
A Lesson to Learn.

Clement folded the letter deliber-
at~iy and put it back into the en-
velope. and, after looking at the ad.
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STACK COVERS. AWNINGS, TENTS.
Flags etc. For information and prices, write
American Tent q Awning Co.. Minneapolis
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That the IL o'clock lid is not to be
pfied off the Waterfowl saloons dur
ing Mayor Martins term of Office was
fo%rcefully impressed upon the minds
of two saloonkeepers in the municipal
court by Judge Myers. The two of
tenders were caught in their saloons
after the closing hour and were ar
rested and hailed to court, where each
pleaded guilty and paid SIS in fines.
The members of the Odd Fellows
lodge at Wentworth have made ar
rangements for a lodge hall building.
They have purchased the old public
school building, which will be moved
to a good location on the principal
business street. The building will be
remodeled and the lower rooms will
be rented, while the lodge will use the
upper, story for lodge purposes, and
may also permit other lodges to hold
their meetings there.
The new Episcopal guild house.
which has been in course Of construc-
ton at Huron during the summer. IS
about completed and will be opened
to the public soon, when a general re-
ception will be given to the public.
The house is built In the bungalow
style and will be used for various
meetings of the church, such as choir
practice, guild meetings, socials and
bakery sales.
One hundred and forty-nine thou.
sand five hundred and fifty-seven dol.
lars worth of taxable property has
been added to Watertown during the
last twelve months. according to the
assessors figures. just gone over by
the board Of equalization. The tota,
value Of city property is placed at 81.
s27,327, of which s500,00O is listed as
personal property. The increase in
the valuation of Codington county Is
s539.l52, giving the county a total val.
uation of s6.os1 500. or So, 5O2.2 per
square mile, which would make the
average acre In the county worth sts.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13

idency, those who are elected upon the
ticket with me will be, like myself,
pledged to this reform, and | shall
convene congress in extraordinary ses-
sion Immediately after Inauguration
and ask, among other things, for the
fulfillment of this platform pledge.
House Rules Despotc
The third fundamentally employed
to defeat the will of the people is found
in the rules OF the house of representa-
tives. Our platform points out that
1.-The house of representatives waS de-
signed by the fathers of the conStitu-
ton to be the popular branch of our
government, responsive to the public
WILL" and adds:
THE house of representatives, as
controlled in recent years by the Re
publican party, has ceased to be a de-
Lucrative and legislative body, re-
sponsive to the will of majority of
the members, but has come under the
absolute domination of the speaker,
who has entire control of its delibera-
tions and powers of legislation.
I'VE have observed with amazement
the popular branch of our federal gov
eminent helpless to obtain either the
consideration or enactment of meas
ures desired by majority of its MEN,
bers."
This arraignment is fully justified.
The reform Republicans in the house
of representatives, when in zthe minor
ity in their own party, are as helpless
to obtain hearing or to secure a vote
upon a measure as are the Democrats.
In the recent session of the present
congress there was a considerable ele-
ment in the Republican party favorable
to remedial legislation; but a few lead
ers, in control of the organization, des-
politically suppressed these members,
and thus forced a real majority in the
house to submit to a we'll organized
minority. The Republican national con-
vention, instead of rebuking this at
tack upon popular government, eulo-
gized congress and nominated as the
Republican candidate for vice president
one of the men who shared in the re-
sponsibility for the coercion of the
house. Our party demands that "the
house of representatives shall again be-
come a deliberative body, controlled by
a majority of the peoples representa-
tives, and not by the speaker and is
pledged to adopt such rules and regu-
lations to govern the house of repre-
sentatives as will enable majority of
its members to direct its deliberations
and control legislation"
Shall the people ruler" They can
not do so unless they can control the
house of representatives, and through
their representatives in the house give
expression to their purposes and their
desires. The Republican party is COM
mitted to the methods now in vogue
In the house of representatives; the
Democratic party is pledged to such a
revision of the rules as will bring the
popular branch of the federal govern
ment into harmony with the ideas of
those who framed our constitution and
founded our government.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
METHODISTS TAKE
SLAP AT CANNON
START CRUSADE FOR NEW
SPEAKER IN HOUSE
INTERSTATE LIQUOR BILL AN
ISSUE
"UncIe Joe" Accused of Preventing
Congress from Voting on Meas
ure-AppeaI Made to S,ooo,-
900 Church Members
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Aug. 12.-The Meth
odist Episcopal church has begun an
active crusade for the election of q
speaker of the house of representa-
tives "who will allow congress to vote
on the interstate liquor shipment bill"
The church, which has over 100000
communicates, has created the tenn
perance society of the Methodist
Episcopal church, with authority to
represent the denomination in all tenn
perance matters. This society is man
aged by board composed of bishop
and fifteen members named by the
bishop and elected by the late general
conference.
The shipment bills" which have
been pending in congress for at least
five years, do not seek to impose pro-
hibition on any locality, but provide
that liquor shipped from one state to
another shall Immediately, on crossing
the boundary, become subject to the
laws of the state into which it is con-
signed. The speaker of the house of
representatives, says the address, lab
solutely controls its proceedings. He
Is opposed to this legislation. Our
church, by action of the recent gem
eral conference, insists that congress
sional doubt as to the constitutionality
of such legislation be resolved in the
interests of the people and that the
general conference unanimously adopt
the report of Governor Hanly's special
committee appointed to wait upon
Speaker Cannon, which closes as fol-
lows:
owe submit to our people and to
all good citizens the wisdom of elect
ing men as members of congress who
believe in it's validity and who are
willing to enact it,
cat least one member of the house
judiciary committee has been de-
feated for the nomination on his rec
ord on this question, and we believe
that the time has come when our peo-
pie who want to help secure this legis-
lation must elect to congress men
who will not only vote for the meas
ure If they get chance, but they
themselves will put forth a man VINO
will allow it to be voted upon. and
that it's passage is improbable until
Christian voters recognize the STU
alton and cast their ballots ac-
cordingly."
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
MRS. WEBB IS
FOUND GUILTY
ONCE WORTH MELONS, MAY
BE SENT TO JAIL
JURY HOLDS SHE PASSED A
WORTHLESS CHECK
Former Wife of Brode L. Duke Flushes
and TrembIes When Verdict Is
DeIivered-Wlll Seek
New Trial
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 12.--Mrs. Alice L.
Webb, divorced wife of Brodie L. Duke,
the millionaire tobacco manufacturer,
was today found guilty of defrauding
the Great Northern hotel by passing a
worthless check.
Motion for a new trial was made
and will be argued later. If not grant
ed sentence will then be pronounced
by the court.
Judge Kersten's court room was filled
with a crowd of eager spectators.
CARRIED in black, as she was yesterday
during the hearing of the evidence,
Mrs. Webb was composed, and ex-
pressed confidence that the verdict
would be in her favor. Her plea that
the check, which was for $50, was
written while she was under the in
fluence of stimulants and narcotics to
alleviate the pain of an attack OF
pleurisy, she believed would be suffi-
cient to influence the jury to bring in
verdict of acquittal.
AT the word guilty the woman who
few years ago was mistress of mil
lions flushed and trembled, but only
momentarily. She recovered quickly
and was apparently perfectly composed
while her lawyer made his motion for
new trial.
The extreme penalty for the crime
for which Mrs. Webb was convicted is
fine of $4,000 and imprisonment in the
county Jail for one year.
Previous to her marriage to Brodie
L. Duke Mrs. Webb, who was Miss
Alice Webb, was a partner In brok-
erage firm in Chicago. The concern
formed a plan to finance a deal. Miss
Webb went to New York and succeed
ed in interesting Duke in the plan.
Their acquaintance was shortly fol-
lowed by their marriage.
Shortly after the marriage Mr..
Dukes brother, Benjamin N. Duke,
began proceedings to have Brodie L.
Duke declared irresponsible and he
was taken to sanitarium. Relatives
then took steps to have the marriage
annulled.
In the meantime Mrs. Webb was
active in her efforts to carry out the
Texas plan, as a result of which war
rants were issued at Nacagdoches,
Texas, for the arrest of Mrs. Webb
and Charles r. Taylor of Chicago upon
the charge of swindling President e.
A. Blount of the Commercial National
bank at that place out of $4,000.
1t was alleged that Ance Webb
while in the Texas city represented
herself as being supported in her OPP
erations by large financial interests
that were temporarily unavailable.
Later Brodie l.. Duke brought suit for
divorce from Mrs. Webb and a decree
was granted to Mr.. Duke.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
Our Party's Ideal

The platform of our party closes
with a brief statement of the party's
ideal. It favors "such an administra-
ton of the government as will insure,
as far as human wisdom can, that each
citizen shall draw from society a re-
ward commensurate with his contrlbu-
ton to the welfare of society"
Governments are good in proportion
as they assure to each member of So
ciety, so far as governments can, a
return commensurate with individual
merit.
There is a divine law of rewards.
When the creator gave us the earth,
with it's fruitful soil. the sunshine with
its warmth and the rains with their
moisture, He proclaimed, as clearly as
If His voice had Numbered from the
clouds, go work, and according to
your industry and your intelligence,
so shall be your reward" Only where
might has overthrow, cunning under
mined or government suspended this
law, has a different law prevailed To
conform the government to this law
ought to be the ambition of the states
man; and no party can have higher
mission than to make it a reality wher-
ever governments can legitimately OPP
crate.
Justice to All
Recognizing that / am indebted for
my nomination to the rank and file of
our party, and that my election must
come, If It comes at all, from the un-
purchasable suffrages of the American
people, I promise, If intrusted with the
responsibility of this high office, to
consecrate whatever ability have to
the one purpose of making this, in fact,
a government in which the people rule
"a Tgovernment which will do justice
to all, and offer to everyone the high
est possible stimulus to great and per-
sistent effort, by assuring to each the
enjoyment of his just share of the pro-
ceeds of his toll, no matter in what
part of the vineyard he labors, or to
what occupation, profession or calling
he devotes himself.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
Gateway to Other Reforms

"ShalI the people ruler" Every
remedial measure of national char
acter must run the gauntlet of the
senate. The president may personally
incline toward reform; the house may
consent to 1t; but as long as the senate
obstructs the reform the people must
wait. The president may heed popu-
lar demand the house may yield to
niblic opinion; but as long as the
senate is defiant the rule of the people
is defeated. The Democratic platform
very properly describes the popular
election of senators as the gateway to
other national reforms" Shall we open
the gate, or shall we allow the ex-
plotting interests to bar the way by
the control of this branch of the federal
legislature? Through a Democratic
victory, and through a Democratic
victory only, can the people secure the
popular election of senators. The
smaller parties are unable to secure
this reform: the Republican party
under its present leadership, is reso-
lutely opposed to 1t; the Democratic
party stands for IL and has boldly de-
nnanded it If am elected to the pres
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
TORNADO IN KANSAS
CAUSES 100000 LOSS

PRATT, Kan, Aug. PA tornado
struck near Coats, in the southern
part of pratt county, last evening at s
O'clock. demolishing houses, barns and
trees in it's pathway. Three miles east
of Pratt large barns were completely
blown away and trees were snapped
off like kindling wood. A stretch 300
yards wide and eight miles long was
devastated
No lives are known to be lost, out
several persons were injured. Inc
property loss will reach SlOV'VVV' a
heavy rain followed the storm.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
FEDERATION OF LABOR
WILL SUPPORT BRYAN

DENVER, August 1.-THE Colorado
Federation Of Labor in convention here
today by q viva voce vote Endorsed the
Democratic party In the national cam
paign.
The Endorsement was given when a
long communication from President Sam
uel Gompers and members of the execu-
tive council of the A. f. of L., In which
the Republican party was declared to
have "insulted" labor and the Demo-
cratic party to have given the Iaboring
man practically all that was asked of it,
and calling upon labOring men generally
to support the party which had favored
them, was placed before the convention
and on motion of p. j. Devault of Dem
yer was received and cOncurred in"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
Republicans Responsible

Why were these known abuses"
permitted to develop? Why have they
not been corrected? If existing laws
are SUFFICIENT, why have they not been
enforced? All of the executive ma
cllinery of the federal government is in
the hands of the Republican party.
Are new laws necessary? Why have
they not been enacted? With Re
publican president to recommend, with
a Republican senate and house to
carry out his recommendations, why
does the Republican candidate plead
for further time in which to do what
should have been done long ago? Can
Mr.. Taft promise to be more strenuous
in the prosecution of wrOngdoers than
the present executive? Can hetRsk for
a larger majority in the senate than
his party now has? Does he need more
Republicans in the house of represent
tatlves or a speaker with more unlim-
ited authority?
Why No Tariff Reform?
The presidents close friends have
been promising for several years that
he would attack the iniquities of the
tariff. We have had intimation that
Mr.. Taft was FESTIVE under the de-
Ynands of the highl.- protected indus
tries. And yet the influence of the
manufacturers, who have for twenty
I'VE years contributed to the Repub-
Iican campaign fund, and who in re-
turn have framed the tariff schedules,
has been sufficient to prevent tariff
reform. AS the present campaign ap-
preached, both the president and Mr.
TAFT declared in favor of tariff revision
but set the date Of revision after the
election But the pressure brought to
bear by the protected interests has
been great enough to prevent any at
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
ARMY OFFICERS COMPLETE
9O-MILE RIDING CONTEST

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12.-The
first contingent of seven army officers
from the Preside, under John A. Lun-
deem, which left the Preside Monday
morning. returned this afternoon. hav-
Roosevelt's 90-nlile riding contest The
officers reported at the general hos
pital, and after an examination they
were declared to be in excellent condi-
ton.
The second party of seven officers,
under Col. M. A. Simpson, adjutant
MIA, started on the riding test this
morning. 1t is composed of Col. G. r.
Smith, Co d. l.. Brainard, Col ]. B.
Bellinger, Col. John Biddle, Major G.
r. Krauthoff and Major C. H. Nc
Kinsley. The ride will be to Palo Alto
and return, over the same route taken
by the first party.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
THOUSANDS FIGHT
TO HEAR LEADER
EVERY ONE ANXIOUS TO GRASP
BRYAN'S HAND
PROGRAM is CARRIED OUT TO
THE LETTER
No Attempt Made at Display and oVa-
tlon Accorded Is Decidedly Non-
Partisan--cheers Echo
Through City


whether those reformers be Republi-
cans or Democrats. So far did the Re
publican convention fall short OF its
duty that the Republican candidate
felt It necessary to add to his platform
An several important particulars thus
xebuking the leaders OF the party; upon
,,,t,osa co-operation he must rely for
the enactment of remedial legislation:
As I shall, in separate speeches, dis
cuss the leading questions at issue.
shall at this time conf1ne myself to the
paramount question, and to the far-
reaching purpose of our party. as that
purpose is set forth in the platform.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
CARS COLLIDE AT DETROIT;
FIFTEEN PERSONS INJURED

DETROIT, Aug. 12.-Fifteen persons
sustained slight injuries today when
two cars on the Detroit. Ypsilanti and
Ann Arbor electric railway collided
near the city limits on Michigan ave-
nue..
Neither was running at high speed
and they did not telescope.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13

magnate contributes 100000 to elect
political friends to Office, with view
to preventing hostile legislation, why
should that fact be concealed until his
friends are securely seated in their
official positions?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13

of the people that cannot doubt their
readiness to accept the reasonable re-
forms which our party proposes rather
than permit the continued growth of
existing abuses to hurry the country
on to remedies more radical and more
drastic