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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-08
RECOVERING GOLD FROM SAND.
New Device to Discover Treasure in
Sunken Ships.

To the mouth of the River Colne,
off Brightlingsea, an extraordinary
machine was towed yesterday. 1t is
to be used in a final attempt to re-
cover the 100000 treasure of gold,
in coins and bars, which is said to
have gone down in II. M. s. Lutline in
1897 near the island of Terschelling,
off the coast of Holland.
A portion Of the treasure has been
recovered, but all ordinary dredging
plants are now useless, as the vessel
has sunk into the sand. The new de-
vice is a great steel tube nearly 100
feet in length and wide enough to al
low a man to walk erect down its GEN.
ter. At one end is a metal chamber
provided with windows and doors, and
at the other a medley OF giant hooks
and other tackle.
The apparatus has just been COM
pleted. after years of work by a firm
of shipbuiIders. "One end of the
tube" explained a member of the
firm. will be clamped to the side OF
q steamship or barge. The other end,
by means of water ballast tanks, will
he sunk until IL touches the bottom.
Then by means of compressed air all
the water will be forced from the
tube and also from the chamber at
the bottom OF il, flush upon the bed
of the sea-.
divers will walk down a stairway
in the center OF the tnbe until they
reach the submerged chgmber. Here
they will don their diving cotumes,
and opening a series OF water.tight
doors will step straight out into the
water. Encineers will be stationed
in the chamber, and following the in
structions OF the divers, who viii com
municate with them by means Of
portable telephones, they will operate
the mechanism of two powerful sue
ton pumps or dredgars which are fit
ted to the sides of the tube. These
~dredgers, it is hoped, win suck away
the sand around the sides of the
heavy chamber until it gradually
sinks by its own weight right down
onto the deck of the wrecked ship
Then the divers, making their way
from the chamber TO the deck of the
ship and thence to the hold, will
be able TO transfer the treasure from
the ship to the chamber by easy
stages"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-08

it crosses Owl Creek the height is lis
feet. The width at the base is five
hundred feet, tapering to twenty feet
at the top. The water side when com
pleted will be faced with two feet of
gravel for drainage and overlaid with
six inch cement blocks weighing each
~ tons. The dam is being built by
placing thereon q covering of gumbo
soil, thoroughly w~etting and rolling
down with a heavy machine until the
dirt is compressed to about one-half its
usual volume. When thus treated, the
dirt seems to have the density of
granite rock, and is fully capable of
~withsanding the pressure of the 90 foot
stand of water with which it will be
tested whenever the reservoir is full.
Something of the immensely of this
dam may be noted in the fact that
while the work has been in progress for
two years, with train loads of dirt be-
ing hauled in on specially constructed
cars from both ends, the dam is only
about half completed in height, and two
years more time will be necessary for
its finish. Through this dam are built
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-08

Irrigation by private enterprise on a
small scale has been used in the Belle
Fourche valley for the past fifteen
years and it has been fully shown that
not only all kinds Of grain crops, but
the harder forms of fruit can be success
fully grown. Sugar beets are wonder
fully prolific and with the completion
of the big project, a beet sugar factory
will be established.
The government has reserved a quar-,
ter section within this irrigation area
for an experimental farm, and this will
prove of immense value to the farmers
and home makers there. A town or two
has been established within the area,
and this will naturally be followed by
railroad equipment a little later.
The Milwaukee railroad coast extern
sion pcnetratcs Butte county; causing
rapid settlement, and a movement is on
foot for a division of the county in
these parts, making three big counties
Of the present territory of Butte
with the county Of Butte of which
Belle Fourche is the county seat, re
tanning the big irrigation project, ex,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-08
NOTICEOFSAL
Real Estate for Taxes.
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

To Whom 1t Nav Concentrate Notice:
|, w. 5. Thomas. Treasurer of Han
county, in the State of South Dakota, do
hereby give public notice, in accordance
with the law, that l will on the second
Monday Of November next, being the 9th
day of November, A. ID. 1908 sell in the
manner provided by law all ands and
real property in said Hand county, South
Dakota. on which the taxes OF 1907 and
prior years remain unpaid, for the taxes,
real and personal due and unpaid there
on, Said sale will be held at the office Of
said treasurer of said Hand county, in
the Court House. in the City of Miller.
In said county, between the hours of
nine o'clock a. IN. and four o'clock p. m,
and Will be continued from day to day
until all have been sold.
Further notice is given that the follow
ing is hereto annexed and included in
this notice is a list of lands and lots to
be sold and the amount OF taxes. both
real and personal, due thereon.
In witness whereof, | have hereunto
set my hand and seal at the office of the
County Treasurer, in the Town of Miller.
in the County of Hand and State OF
South Dakota, this 3rd day Of October,
a. d. 1908.
(Seal.) w. S. THOMAS.
Treasurer of Hand County. South Dakota.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-08

the feed conduits for the two main
bitches which supply the water for the
7 two sides of the valley to be irrigat-
ed. To describe the great system of
bitches requires a more intimate know
ledge of irrigation han is possessed by
this writer. But even the most casual
observer must be impressed with the
thoroughness in scope and detail of the
great enterprise. Hence, it is not hard
10 agree with the editor of ''IrrigatiOn
Age, a magazine published at Chi
cago when he says:
"Many reclamation projects are now
being worked out by the government
and through private or state enter
prise in various parts of the country;
but it is safe to say that the Belle
Fourche project now being developed
by the Reclamation Service, under the
direct supervision of Mr.. Raymond F.
Walter, is one of the c~leanest and best
planned projects in the entire western
county"
At one point a big bluff, underlaid
with shoIe, could not well be handled
by the open canal form so a tunnel a
quarter mile in length was bored
through, lined with Portland Cement
srom the Yankton factory. By the
way the vast quantities of cement used
is all obtained from the Yankton works.
AT another point it became necessary
to conduct one of the larger bitches
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-08

Farmer-"I'm a.goin' to drive to
town some day next week. Marthy."
His wife-"You can't. Hiram. I
wuz just lookin' owe the skedool OF
autor races an there amt an open
date for hoss-drivin' on the roads for
the next ten days."-Puck.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-08

across the river. Here they have what
is called "the e~yphon," but it ISM
a cyphon. 1t is simply a tunnel which
dips down below the river bed and rises
agan to a lower level on the opposite
shore. The cyphon is six feet in dia,
meter, $500 feet long, and conducts the
vast volume of water at a speed of ten
feet to the second. The cyphon tunnel
is reinforced with ribs of steel to with,
stand terrific pressure.
Alfalfa is the principal crop grown,
OF which three crops are cut each year.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-08

Vulnerable row boats. Hence a large
number of sailors and seamen are be.
ing developed out there where water
other than that of the swift running
mountain streams, is very seldom seen.
The main reservoir which begins six
miles beyond the diverting dam con-
tains eight thousand acres, forming a
lake twelve miles long by three wide,
with an average depth of thirty feet.
The biggest dirt dam in America, holds
the water of the reservoir. This dam
is more than a mile in length. Where
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-08

cept a portion which will extend east
ward into Mead county.
To one who takes pride in every
thing that pertains to the growth and
development of South Dakota, that
great irrigation project is an inspira-
ton. 1t will afford an object lesson to
other parts of the state where the rain
fall is uncertain, and the revolving
fund established by the government
means a perpetual carrying forward of
similar enterprises, until vast areas of
the west which are given over to sage
brush, cacti and prairie dogs will bios
som forth in richness and beauty.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-08
Fair Women.

Here is a paradox: Never we're
beautiful women more abundant, new
er were clothes more becoming, never
was artistic cleverness more widely
diffused; and yet, when these clever
artists take to painting female DOr-
traits we get results as unplaasing az
we see in more than half the pictures
at the New gallery.
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28
WOODSOE

Mrs. VIM. Field Is seriously Ill
At this writing.
We have enJ,yed several very
much needed rains the past two
weeks, which We think will Ger
tainly help the corn,
Mr.. ana Mrs, Alonzo Ziegel en-
tcrtaincd mt dinner Sunday Mr.,
and Mrs. Jas. j. Scott,Sr., Mr.,
and Mrs. C.. w. Scott. Of Hous-
%tonia, jamie j. Scott, vile anu
children.
We are glad to know that Mrs
t.. w. Gorrell Is able to take bug
gy rides.
Miss Georgia Belle Scott tool
the train Saturday for Alma fol
Ian extended visit to relativcl
land friends.
w. u. Witcher and family ar,
sick at present. though nothing
serious we hope.
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28
100000 LOST IN TOLEDO
How Brand WhitIoek's City Tried -
Run A Gas Plant.


When Toledo installed her natural
gas plant in 1895. to be abandoned
eight years later, 1t was expected that
the price Of gas would be brought to .
very low figure.
The original cost. s1,5O0,OOO. was met
by the Issue Of Az per cent bonds,
s1,OjO,OOO Of which Is still unpaid. The
business was unsuccessful from the
start. and the very men who had ad.
vocated the undertaking and made
their private profit from 1t soon ad.
vised that It be sold. As its gas field
became exhausted the city tried to 80
cure a new supply. but its efforts were
frustrated by the fact that II had to
advertise Its Intention for sixty days.
giving others a chance to get In be-
fore II.
Finally the main part Of the plant
was leased. and In 1908 the lines ana
mains outside the city were sold for
S1O2, 900. Of which $4,000 was protest.
cd by the purchasers on the ground
that several miles Of pipe included In
the sale was not delivered. having pre-
viously been stolen from the city. IL ID
impossible to tell how much the city
will ultimately lose by this expert
mcnt, but II will he undoubtedly In ex.
cess Of 100000.
A request to the mayor for lnforma.
tion elected a reply from his secretary
which gave no hint that n loss had
been incurred except the following:
However. the experiment was Of
much greater benefit to the city than
the figures show. for this reason: TIKI
consumers of natural gas In Toledo
have been given n lower rate than any
other city IN the country. with perhaps
one or two exceptions. for practically
/ the last fifteen years. The low rate
was brought about 10y the competition
/ that began when the city entered the
field"
n this were true II might he nm ade-
quate offset "a the loss N the plant.
but unfortunately the facts do not
bear out the statement. The 1907 edi-
tion OF Browns Directory OF Amer
lean Gas Companies gives more than
100 cities md towns In Ohio alone
where the rate for natural gas IL low
or than In Toledo. This Is n good cx-
annie Of the sort OF Information"
which Il given out by city officials who
are In favor Of municipal ownership
for political or other reasons.
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28
ROSE VALLEY

Rev. Trader IL holding protract
cd meeting at Christian Union,
Great interest Is taken In thd
meeting.
Floyd Hall who has been with
his uncle, Is. +. Hall and wife for
the past few months, returned to
his home In Slater Sunday.
Mrs. Ollie Med MEL AMI daugll-
ters, ana Mrs. Scott visited j. G..
Baldwin and family Sunday.
Miss Pauline Trader OF War
rcnsburg IL visiting the Misses
Halls at this writing.
Rev. Trader expects his daugh-
ter, Miss Lena, ana Mrs. George
Blchsel, from Scdalia to attend
meeting at Christian Un'o.n Sun
day.
Mrs. Dan Sink and family were
Monday guests Of Misses Chloe
) and Mary Smith.
Mrs. Oscar Mayse and son re-
turned to their home Saturday
after a weeks visit with her
mother near Blue Lick.
The p%rotractcd meeting OF the
methodist church at Rose Valley
,closed Wednesday OF last wees
with great OF nlneteou
additions.
Harry Stoner OF Sweet Springs
and Miss Lena Hall, Ralph Urtor
and Miss Pauline Trader, DR.
Charley Ehlers OF Sweet Supring,
and Miss Lottie Hall passed
through our vicinity Sunday en-
route to MsAlllster Springs.
Misses Minnie Rothrock and Nell,
Williams OF Houstonia lett Fri
: day for an extended visit. DON
f. know when they are to returl
home but hope them a nice visit
Taylor Hill and family and II
&c. Hall were Sunday guests q
If. Il. Halls.
Orl Leonard called on the Ur
ton Brothers, Lester and Fravs
Sunday evening.
{ Mrs. Fred Montgomery and sol
! Owen, visited Uriah Mayse an
/ family Tuesday.
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28

John Paulding OF blackburn
neighborhoodd visited town FRI
day and Saturday.
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28
"cARE, SENSE, CONSCIENCE"
These Three Are Neglected In Public
Ownership Enterprises.

The Brooklyn Standard Union In .
recent editorial dealt at length with
municipal socialism. After enumerat-
ing several OF the ways In which the
city suffers from the Observation-Disclosures
Of the utilities already committed %
Its care the writer sums up as follows:
whats the good OF extending To
list Of failures and utilities? All that
Il would do would be to illustrate Q
point already sufficiently patent ana
palnful-that nation, state or city does
any Job lntrusted to 1t with less rare.
sense and conscience than he indi-
viduai manifests when he Is working
Cor himself. Care. sense, conscience
chat Is the trinity OF gods whose altarU
grow dusty when the municipality
keeps the temple. In every failure an
aificulty that the city has experienced
you see red tape. a conflict of authce'
ity, an absence OF foresight. the pref
erence Of party or patronage to tn
public welfare, a low civic conscience
perhaps a lower civic Intelligence, II
unhappy consequences Of collective -
sponsibility, or. rather, Of irresponsI
bility, ~ compared with indivto
ual responsibility, The other fellov
pays-in welfare. health or taxes. II
public servant IL not exposed to -
full operation Of cause and e9eaa
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28
Watch this space next week!

Miss Lula Thomas IL the guest
OF Miss Mamie Cowan OF Mar
shall this week and also attend
Ing the Chautauqua.
l.. +. Silvey and wife visited
home folks n2ar H~ughesyille Sat
urday and Sunday.
Several from this vicinity spent
Sunday at McAliister Springs.
Ed Malay OF scdalia came Sat
urday to accompany his wife
and son home Sunday.
Miss Ethel and Newton Thomas
visited C. NJ. Thomas and family
Saturday night.
Misses Grace and Mary Mont
gomery are In Marshall atten-
Ing the hCautauqua this week.
Miss Eva Teeter visited Miss
Bessie Haggard Saturday night
and Sunday,
Misses Maude Harris OF Black
burn and Lula Thomas called on
the Misses Jones Wednesday eve
ming.
A protracted meeting Is In pro-
gress at Range Line, being con
Quoted by Rev. Crockett OF Sweet
Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Hansbro at
tended church at Blue Lick Sun
day.
b. p. Thomas. wife and son
Samuel, were Sunday guests o
j. p. Thomas and family.
Mr.. Finley OF Oklahoma visit
ed John Jones and family Wed
nesday Of last week.
John Witcig visited relatives Il
Sedalia Saturday and Sunday.
j. M. Thomas and daughter
Miss Laura were In Marshal
Tuesday to attend the Chautau
qua and were the guests Of h
w. Cowan and family.
Deane and william Boatrigh
returned home from Warrens
burg where they have been visit
ing relatives.
Mrs. Reid called on Mrs. job
Witcig Thursday evening.
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28
Napton ncighborhoo.d

Napton ncighborhood
Mrs. II. A. Tussey was shopping
In Marshall Saturday.
The Ice cream supper at Bcthlc
ham Church Aug. tho IL, was
well attended the amount clear
cd was $50.
Jno. Thomas went TO the Wool
man picnic Saturday afternoon
A protracted meetng began ut
bethlehem church Saturday
night conducted by Reys. q. G.
Shouse and B~oatrlght.
Jim Lemon and wife spent Sun
day afternoon at c. Il. Bridge
waters.
Rufus Clark, Jr. Is doing somr
rcmodling on his house.
Miss Edna King AMI brother
Alvin returned home Sun lay, ar
ter n short visit with thciI
grandfather, Rubin Geo &c. tic,
were accompanied home by thcii
aunt, Mrs. NJ. Thomson.
Robert Finley passed through
our burg Friday In the intcres'
.of renting a farm.
&c. NJ. Thomas IL impro Ing nice
sly.
w. Il. Witcher Is some bette
at this writing.
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28
SOME INTERESTING DECISIONS
Cities Liable For Damages When Per.
sons Are Hurt or Killed by N. O.
Electric Current.

IL has been claimed that municipal
electric light plants are not liable TO
one item OF expense. which In the case
Of private plants Is sometimes n very
large onc-viZ. damages for injury o.
death due To contact with n live wire.
II this were n fact. II would only 60
to show the unfalrness resulting from
municipal ownership In making an In
noccnt Individual bear all III" burden
Of an accident which may result from
municipal parslmony or carclcssncss.
While the decision OF Inferior courts
has sometimes been In line with this
claim, recent decisions Of higher courts
are opposed TO this view.
In the case OF Davoust versus the
city VI Alameda the supreme court OF
| California held the city liable for dam
nges, but the casc was complicated BY
the fact that the municipal lighting
/ plant was engaged In a commercial
| business ns well as In lighting the
streets. The supreme court OF Indiana
has just handed down n decision where
this complication IL not involved. In
| the case of Aiken versus the city Of
Columbus II holds that municipal own
ershlp and the management OF munich
pal utilities do not make such bust
ness u government function to h ex-
tent OF relieving the city from liability
for negligence, aud IL must pay dam
ages 10 u person Injured by the fall OF
a defective live wire. Although they
are not at hand for reference. We 70
call similar decisions by the courts Of
other statS.
II Is worth noting that In general
whore damages have been assessed
against municipal plants or where e
traordlnary legal expenses have been
incurred OH account OF them the
amounts have not been charged up
against the operation OF the plants, hut
have been paid out OF the general taz
levy. thus enabling the plants to Show
a lower "cost" OF operation than would
be the case II the Items had been prop
erly charged.
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28

Mr.. and Mrs. John Evans are
i'm oklahoma this week at Pryor
Creek looking after property pur-
chased there by Mr.. Evans re-
Gently.
Rev. W. II. Setter and wife e
turned last Saturday from Aull-
vile whore they had been the
past two weeks. Rev. Setter
held q meeting while there.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Burfelnd spent
the day Sundya with Mr.. Bur-
fiend's brother and family at
blackburn.
Lee Hicklin and wife OF Old
Mexico are visiting his brother,
John Hickiin and family.
j. q. Hall Of the Traders Bank
OF Kansas city Is spending sever
al days with his parents, w. &.
Hall and vile.
Miss Dorothy S.mrall went to
Marshall last Thursday and will
attcnd the Chautau this
week.
Miss Bertha kunzc and nephew
Mclvinc Schick, Of Frccburg, H.,
who has been visiting Mcsdamcs
Is. ID. Clark and A. f.. Smith the
past month returned home Fri
Iday.
l.. l.. Free OF Kansas City spent
lSunday with his wife VIII o IL
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Jean
Payne.
viii s. Widder, wife and chill.
drcn of Madison, Kansas, VIII,
have been with A. Widdcr ant
wife and W. W. George aud wifi,
eft Tuesday for Kansas C,ti
whcre they will visit the family
of j. G. Hibbs before returning
home.
Miss Jessie McNair Of Lamont,
Is the gicst Of Rev. and Mra
lShanklin for n few days.
Mrs. Ed s. Rca and children o
coffcyyillc, kas., arrived Thurs
day night anu are Mt tn, honhI
lof Mrs. Rca's mother, Mrs. Sarnl
IOwcns, for an extended visit.
Misses Flora AMI Sophia Dlnk
Ienbring came home sunday mo-
ing from n few days outing.
DIR. NJ. +. Ehlcrs Is ut home af
ter several weeks stay with hi
=, brother, win II. OF Kingsley, Ma.
A. NJ. Henley Is serving "Uuc,
,ISnm' again on rural route "
LIS after "a two weeks vacat ~.
Miss Roberta Hall Of Marsha
Is visiting her aunt, Mrs. ".
,IHall and cousin, Mrs. Marvl
Davis.
:, Mrs. Julius Voglcsmcycr spel
la few days this week Ia Scdali
:, with her grandmother.
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28
SWEET SPRINGS

The corpse OF Mrs. william
Bernard Of Williston, N. d., ar
rived in Sweet Springs Tuesday
morning. The funeral took place
from the residence Of Edward
Highley, at two o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. Mrs. Bernard will be
remembered very kindly by our
people as Mother Bernard" oi
the Salvation Army, She died OF
cancer OF the stomach.
Lee Weekly and family of To-
peka, kas., and Mrs. A Arm
strong and son, Gail, OF Bates
City, Mo-, are visiting their par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. M. Weekly
n. w. Burkhart has gone Il
Tulsa, Okla, where he has decld
ed to locate and engage In Nets
paper work. Mrs. Burkhart will
remain here some time longe
with her parents, Mr.. ana Mrs
II. G. Andrew
Miss Nora Hoffman IL yisitini
friends In Winfield. Kos, TIL
week.
Misses Barbee Jack son an
Anna Davis drove to Elmwoo
and Blackburn Tuesday
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28
TEDIEVILLE

Mrs. Tracy Haggard and daugh
ter. Mrs. Ed Malay and son Jack
were guests = m. T. O, Wade.
Thursday.
shelton and Laura Thomas
were In Sweet Springs Monday
having dental work done.
The basket dinner was well at
tended ct Bethssham Sunday.
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28
WANNAMAKER
Intended for last week..

Mrs. Rufus Clark, Mrs, Force
|Belwood and son Jim and John
Thomas were shopping In Mar
shall Wednesday.
J. n. walker and family visit
lsd from Friday until Sunday IL