Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-10-09
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John r. Eearly, known as the tent
leper, is happy. For a long time he
has realized that he vas doomed to die
from the terrible disease Which aflicts
him, but his greatest concern has been
for the welfare of his faithful little
wife, h woman who has refused TO
desert him i'll his misery. Now that the
government has granted him a pension
of SD Il month, he is relieved of his
greatest source of anxiety and faces the
future with Il smile. Early's home is in
North Carolina. When he was discov-
cred to be Il leper he was forced to
move and for several months was a
WaEdcrer. shifted hither and yon by
the fatcS and with no permanent abid-
ing place. Finally he was lodged in a
tent in the outskirts of this city near
the workhousc and has been dependent
upon The gifts of the charitably inclined.
His faithful little wife has been living
in Il little nearby cottage. The Board
Of Health has taken the most strenuous
measures to prevent contagion, and no
one has been permitted to pass the
guards stationed near Early'S tent or
touch anything with which he has come
mt" contact. The granting of a liberal
pension was brought about by the belief
that Early's disease is a result of his
his army service, and it makes his care
and the support of his wife certain.
Government clerks must give their
undivided services to Uncle Sam. They
are not to be permitted to do any out
side work. Several clerks ave been
dismissed. 1t has been a common prac-
tice here at headquarters for aspiring
clerks to attend night colleges, and, Sc
curing diplomas, practice professions
after office hours. These so-called sun
down" doctors, dentists, lawyers, archi-
tects, etc, were able materially to in
crease their incomes. Protests were
made by regular members of various
professions, complaining OF the unfair
competition Of the Landowners" who
cut prices.
The pensioners Of the Civil Wal r
dying at the rate OF more than a hun
dred and fifty a day, as the annual re-
port Of the Commissioner Of Pensions
shows. With the ranks Of the veter-
ans thinning by sixty thousand a year,
it will not be long before the Grand
Army parades On Memorial Day will
have to be abandoned, unless they are
succeeded by the parades OF the pro-
posed United Order of American Vet
Grams, to include all those who have
fought under the Stars and Stripes In
any war.
A train-stepping device. which 1t is
said will practically eliminate the tele-
graph operator as a factor in the move
nent of railroad trains, is under in
vcstigation by the block signal and train
merce Commission, who soon will give
it an official test. The system is an in
| vention of 2. J. Simmer, Of Los An
geles, Cal. 1t already has been in
| stalled on eighteen miles Of the Santa
Fe Railway in Southern California,
and is said to be a success.
4 fifSiissS VIII SrpIl IN ltii @riiiCt III
Statuary Hall in the national capitol
| by more than n cheap plaster cast Of
Washington. The Virginia legislative
commission, in New York, on its way
from Providence, r. l., where the
| bronze statue Of Gen. Lee was inspect
| ed, met at the Hoffman House to ask
| for bids for a bronze statue Of Wash
1 f--A~ wit Z Il, - No - snD -Snrp
| Of the Lee. statue and as soon as 1t is
| ready the plaster cast will be removed.
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Lawrence o. Murray, the Comptroller
of the Currency, is making an effort to
ascertain how the bankers of the coun!
try regard the methods pursued by bank
examiners in going over the affairs of
banks under examination, and at the
same time to secure from bankers their
views as to how the work of bank ok
animation can be improved. With that
end in view, the Comptroller has sent
to each national bank president Il letter
Of inquiry.
Ambassador Leishman cablcd tho
State Department that after much Of
fort he has succeeded in settling Il mat
ter that has been pending for several
years in relation to the transfer OF III.
property to be used as a site f"r The
American college for girls at CoMSt%n'
%tinople. Under this settlement tn. I'll,
Of the site will be transferred 10 III,
name of Secretary Barton. of tn" Anne"
lean board of missions.
Gen. Allen, chief signal officer % tho
larmy. has received adviccs that tn.
two wireless telegraph stations locatr'
at Fort Gibson and Nome. Alaska, hay,
been completed and put in operation
These are the last stations of the tGir
graph system which extends from Seat
tie. Wash, to Nome.
RepOrts from the Panama ANAL con.
tinue to show n surprisingly rapid rats
of progress. More than three times rs
much earth was eXcavated i'll June and
July Of this veal as was dug out in the
corresponding months Of last year. and
the rainy season, which it was thought
would check the work, has had prac-
tically no effect. At the present rate Il
three million cubic yards a month it
will not take long to cXcavate a han.