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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
DECLINES TO PAY.
Dakota Central Telephone Company
Has No Use> for Its Predecessors
ArranuemeY1t

arrangement.
The city council of Mitchell has
nice point to settle with the Dakota
Central Telephone company. When F.
B. Elce built the first telephone sys-
tenn in Mitchell ten years ago his
franchise was drawn SO that he was
required to pay the city 10 per cent
of the gross receipts after they had
exceeded the sum of $4,000, and he
complied with the ordinance as long
as he owned the company.
Later the Dakota Central Telephone
company secured a franchise to enter
the city as a long districe company
and was not required to pay any fee
to the city. The Dakota Central CON-
pany finally bought the system from
Mr.. Flee, and for the past two years
it has declined to pay the fee to the
city.
The company claims that it is not
operating under the Elce ordnance,
but under the one by which it was
given permission to enter the city, and
the company also informed the coun.
Gil that it did not have any use for the
Elce ordinance, and that it could be
repealed so far as the company was
concerned. The company holds that
the council had no right to exact any
thing of fee from Mr.. Elce. The
mayor has laid the entire matter be-
fore the city council and it's attorney,
will be started to recover the fees
for the past two years, with the pos
sibility of the case being taken to
the supreme courl for decision.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
CAN REsEED FORESTS.
Experiments in the Black Hills Show
New Growth Will Cost Little.

demonstration in the Black Hills
natural forest, which for three years
past has been the subject of costly
and extensive experiments, is proving
successful and the forestry officials
are much pleased with the final re-
suits. The work of reseeding first
was commenced near Roubaix in 1895
by l.. G. Miller, chief of the section
of planting. One of the most interest
ing methods was to scatter seed on
the last spring snow and let it sink
into the wet ground, but the most sue
cessful plan seems to be preparing
the ground with spring tooth har-
row and then scattering the seed
broadcast. Forest Supervisor Hamil-
ton declares that the 100 acres OF
burned forest land in the Black Hills
can be reseeded at small cost to the
government under the new method.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
Most Fires From Unknown Causes.

The first annual report of the state
fire marshal, covering the first fiscal
year since the department was estab-
lished, will show that for the year
there were 42S fires reported in the
state. OF this 14o are from unknown
causes. Defective chimneys, stoves,
and stovepipes were responsible for
forty-seven other fires Gasoline is
called upon to take the blame for
thirty-five fires; and gas explosions
numbered seven; five fires from kero-
sene explosions; twenty-one fires are
charged to lightning; seventeen to
children and matches, and only three
to fireworks.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
Five Forests Consolidated.

To facilitate the ever increasing
work of the forestry bureau, five Of
the national forests in this part Of
the country have been consolidated
for administration purposes and
heneeforth will be known as group.
The forests are the Cave Hills, Short
Pine, Slim Buttes, Ekelaka and Long
Pine. AS the original owners were
the Sioux Indians, It was thought APP
propriate to call the group the Sioux
national forest. The headquarters of
this large area in the the northern
part of the state will be at Camp
Crook.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
To Vote for Carnival Queen.

In order to add zest to the Pa-Ha-
Sa-Pa carnival which will be held at
Deadwood next month, it has been de-
cided to select a queen of the carnival
by popular vote. Voting booths are
to be established around the city and
the voting will continue one month
This will be the first time in several
years that Deadwood has had popu-
larity contest among the women, and
the carnival is to be the event of the
year.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
NO BEER
SOLD
IN CANS.
BY Order of the Mayor.

When these cards were posted the
saloonkeepers were served by the
chief of police with a written notice
to the effect that beer in cans" was
forbidden beverage in this city here.
after.
The mayor also called the five sa-
loonkeepers onto the carpet to-day for
scrubbing out their barrooms on Sum
day, as they have been doing in the
past. He would give them an extra
hour of grace on Saturday nights,
from IL to IL o'clock, in which to
scrub out under police supervision.
This or nothing" were his orders.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
JOURNEY is MYSTERY.
Aged Farmer Who Disappears Found
Hundred Miles From Home.

Peter Adler, the farmer who disap,
peared SO mysteriously from Haven
last week, was found lying by the road
side near George Harmon's place.
seven miles out of WATERFOWL How
the man, had covered the 100 miles
from his home to Watertown, or his
reason for the journey could not be
learned from him, as he seemed to be
mentally confused. His son was At
once notified of the whereabouts of
his father and arrived on the next
train from the West. The aged man
seemed glad to see his son, and ex-
planned to him that he had been TO
Minneapolis to get pair OF glasses
though he had on his person all the
money with which he left home.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30

Mrs. John F. Finerty, widow Of Col
Finerty, Irish leader and war CORE
spondent. who died in Chicago recent
w. has taken up her husbands litera-
nv work. The board of managers OF
Col. frinerty's paper, the Citizen, de-
voted to the interests OF the Irish peo-
pie have elected Mrs. Finertv editor
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
elaborate Sarcasm.

Your jokes are better some days
than others" commented the undiplo-
matte friend.
assists me- responded the press hui
morist But he won't help me out
every day"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
GREEK MOB cHAsEs THUGS.
Hoboes Who Do Holdup Job Are Pur-
sued by Armed Avengers.

sued by Armed Avengers.
Thirty-five Greeks in battle with
six hoboes was the outcome of rob-
berry in hich the hoboes held up two
Greeks at Yankton. One of the latter
was left insensible on a railroad track,
but the other got away to the camp
of his countrymen, and in few min
utes thirty-fve Greeks, armed with
daggers and clubs, were after the ho-
boes. who vanished quickly into Il
cornfield The police of this city were
summoned, and in the meantime the
boss of the Grecian mob tried to keep
his railroad gang from wholesale muir
der. While the Greeks listened to
him the holdup men got away The
Greeks are still securing the country,
and there will be something doing ii
any of the men they want are caught.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
is He ReIaxino.

Yesterday the president turned his
attention to the clearing Of stretch
of woods, comprising forty acres The
president felled several trees before
NOON
Aw, shucks. I thought you were
going to tell me he cleared the whole
forty acres. "
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
Cat Stories.

My cat is very sagacious She col :
iects angleworms and thus attracts
sparrows, which she captures
My cat beats that. She buys reed :
birds from, dealers and then goes into
bankruptcy, That cat has swindled
every butcher in this neighborhood"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
HEAR TAXATION PLEAS.
South Dakotans Listen to Railroad
Arguments.

Arguments.
The state board of assessment took
up the actual work of assessment of
railway property in the state, after
listening to arguments of the attor-
neys for the roads. What action will
be taken by the board is not known,
but it is not likely to be anything
radical unless it is to penalize several
of the roads which have refused to
file the required report with the board.
Burglar Pleads Guilty.
Deadwood. s. d., July 2S.-Pleading
guilty to burglary In ths third degree,
John Burns, miner, was arraigned
In the circuit court and sentenced by
Judge Rice to ten months in the peni.
Tertiary.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
Constipation

Baked sweet apples. with some people. bring
prompt relief for Constipation. With others,
coarse all-wheat bread viii have the same effect
Nature undoubtedly has vegetable remedy to
relieve every ailrnent known to man, If physicians
can but find Natures way to health. And this u
Strikingly true with regard to Constipation
The bark OF certain tree in California-Cas
cara Sagrada-oiers q most excellent aid to this
end. But. combined with Egyptian SIENNA Slip
perry Elm Bark. Solid Extract OF Prunes. etc.. this
same Cascara bark Is given its greatest possible
power to correct constipation. A toothsoms
Candy Tablet. called Iax-ets. Is now made at the
DR.. Shoop Laboratories, from this ingenious and
most effective prescription. Its effect on Consti-
patton. Biliousness. Sour Stomach, Bad Breath.
sallow Complexion. ETC.. Is indeed prompt and
satisfying.
No gripping no unpleasant after effects are o..
perienced. and Lax-ets are put up in beautiful
Autographed METAL boxes at 5 cents and Is cents
per box.
For something new. Mica. economical and
elective. try box OF
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-07-30
State News of Interest
NO MORE "eRowLERs."

Mayor o. Milbank, S. D., Prohibits
Rushing the Can.
"You can't rush the growler" in
Milbank, says Mayor F. w. Meehan.
He has caused to be posted in each
OF the five saloons in Milbank the fol-
lowing signs, which are in large let.
ters:
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1908-07-16

INSURE in a reliable company with
Swim and Aldrich.
Rev. Williams Of Trinity NJ T..
church in Bellingham will preach in
Lynden M. Z. church next Sunday
morning.
J. B. E--Umbrellas recovered
and repaired. Scissors ground. Next
door to Post Office. g
Miss Mae Milan took her little cous-
in, Lucille Call, who has been visit
ing with her for the past few days,
to her home at Maple Falls.
Mrs. Harris and daughter, Kath-
rine, left Thursday for a visit of sew
eral weeks with her brother on Shaw
and Orcas Island.
BOntie JudsOn has just removed the
old picket fence in front of the judi
son home, which was put there some
20 odd years ago. d. l.. Steffe is put
ting up fine wire fence instead.
DIR. ERB, specialist, Eye, Ear Nose
and Throat. Glasses fitted. Phone
\ GAL, Daylight Block, Bellingham. 80
Mrs. r. r. Helder and daughter,
Vanessa. spent Thursday at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Forbes.
d. l.. Steffe has just finished a fine
little granary for Barney Collins
southeast of Lynden, dimensions 16I
by "a by 10.
Rev. Alexander LIE Clare or who is
better known as Father" LIE Glare,
wishes TO let the old patrons of his
shoe-shop know that he is again a.
BILE to mend and repair shoes.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. s. Steinhauer and
daughters. Matte and Genevieve and
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Steinhauer went to
Blaine Sunday to witness the ball
game between Lynden and Blaine.
IF YOU HAVE difficult job of re-
pairing, take it to j. b. Gale, next
door to Post Office. 9
Mrs. A. r. Smith and children left
for Marblemount, Wash, Monday
where they expect to spend the sum-
mer
J. R. Vail has put in a large elect
ric motor pump with which he can
furnish the house with water and al
so sprinkle his lawn.
The Farmers Mercantile Store re-
ceived car load of flour and feed o.
Yer the B. B. & B. C. RR Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Shagren spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. George
Zurn, of Greenwood.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1908-07-16


choice sexcepi
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05

over 1000 persons were registered for
the drawings for the big land opening
last Monday.
Struck in the head by heavy log,
Sidney Marlett was instantly killed
recently in the logging camp OF Rus
sell G Pugh near Harrison.
The supreme court has handed down
an opinion in unique case on APP
peal. holding that the wife who is
plaintiff in proceedings for divorce
may intervene in an action brought
by third party against her husband
for debt upon showing that such lat
ter suit is collusive and fraudulent and
brought for the purpose of defeating
the wife's rights to her interest in
community property.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05
Terrible Floods
In Montana

Drummond, Mont, June 2. - Four
passenger trains are tied up here by
washouts, while at Missoula three more
passenger trains, together with num-
Der of freight trains, are stalled. At
Billings, 1000 passengers are tied up
on several Burlington and Northern
Pacific trains.
Reports from Gallatin valley state
that cattle are standing knee deep in
water ON the ranges and in the fields.
The damage to crops will be heavy.
In the Beaverhead valley, south of
Butte, numerous grain fields have been
inundated. Several wagon bridges
have gone out and the ranchers are ma
KING strenuous efforts to save others.
Frank Myers of Spokane, a bridge
man of the Northern Pacific, was kill
ed by the pile driver near Bonita. 1t
is costing the Northern Pacific about
$4,000 day to feed the passengers stal
led in Montana. And it is still raining.
Since Saturday afternoon the Butte
postoffice has not had one piece of east
ern mail, and will not have any for
some time. The washout at Livingston
is about 20 miles in extent.
lied up at Drummond,is the Tacoma
ball team ON its way to Butte; May
Robson, with her theatrical company.
and the notorious Emma Goldman.
The waters of the Missoula are rising
rapidly, and considerable excitement
exists in Missoula. AS the result of
high water sweeping wood camps along
the shores of the Missoula river hun
dreds OF CORDS of wood are floating
down tine river.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05
BRIEF NEWS NOTES.

William Folberth of Seattle, chief
machinist on the coast for big auto
mobile company was fatally injured in
Portland, Oregon, recently.
The first annual convention of the
Presidential Postmasters' Association
of Washington will be held at Spokane
August and 6.
After considering the suggestion of
his western friends, John Hays Ham
mond had decided to enter the contest
for the nomination for vice president
on the republican ticket.
r. Two hundred delegates were in at
tendance at the session of the Washing
ton state grange at Vancouver this
week.
According to the vote last Tuesday
in Oregon Governor Chamberlain is
the choice of the people for senator.
The University of Washington eight
Dared crew defeated the crew from the
University of California at Seattle
lasts Tuesday. They were five lengths
ahead.
The Stanford university team de-
feated the Colorado university team in
a field and track meet last Tuesday at
Boulder. Colorado by a score of SO to
55.
Mrs. Hettie Green and daughter.
Miss Sylvia, have planned to spend the
great ter part of the summer at Newport.
J. l.. Birdseye of Spokane has been
elected grand master of Washington
Odd Fellows at recent session at Walla
Walla.
General Butler, the British general
who led the English forces at in South
Africa during the late Boer war, is
dead.
Report of losses of shorn sheep and
young lambs are received daily from
all sections of the state of Wyoming,
and old sheepmen say this has been the
most disastrous spring in the history of
the woolgrowing business.
Former President and Mrs. Grover
Cleveland celebrated their 22d wedding
anniversary last Tuesday at their home |
near Princeton.
Iowa primary returns indicate a |
close race for the republican senatorial |
between Allison and Cum
Minis.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05
OREGON NEWS.

Fully 1000 attended the last day of
the pioneers reunion at Weston. At
the pavilion the people were addressed
during the forenoon by President Pen
rose Of Whitman college, in favor OF
prohibition.
Total grain exports from Portland
Tor May, 1908, according to figures
compiled by the merchants exchange.
amount to 1,347,256 bushels. These
figures include flour, reduced to a
wheat basis, and also the shipments of
both wheat and flour to California
ports.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05
Caught on Bridge, Both Die.

Lodi Cal, June Henry Scott and
ms 1o-year-old daughter were instant
~ killed by train on the railroad
orIuse near town. Scott was enjoying
sunday walk with his daughter and
three boys. They were overtakon h,,
I'M une train in the middle of the bridge
Inc boys escaped to the footbridga
out Scott stayed to extricate the girls
lOot' which was fast between the ties
que was extricated just as the train
ran them down. Both were killed in
stantly. 'iieu III
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05
DOUBLE MURDER IN PARIS.
A. Steinhil, the Noted Artist, and
Mother-in-Law.

iUObUCl-iU-LdWs
Paris, June "A double murder was
committed here that for absolute bru-
tality would be hard to parallel in the
annals of the crimes of Paris. Adolphe
Steinhil, a noted painter, a son of
Louis Charles Auguste Steinhil one
of the most celebrated of French ar
lists, and grand nephew of Meis-
sonier, and his wife's mother, Madame
Japin, were strangled to death in the
artists home in the Rue de Vaurigard;
his wife was gagged and bound to a
bed, and heard her mothers dying
struggles as she fought for life with
the murderers.
The bound woman and the bodies of
her husband and her mother were
found by man servant, who had to
prepare breakfast. Madame Steinhil.
suffering from great nervous shock.
told the police that three men and a
woman-the latter she thought she
recognized as one of her husbands
models-forcibly entered the house
about l CLOCK in the morning and
sprang upon her like wild beasts. ty-
ing her to the bed.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05

San Francisco.-Rear Aolnna
Sperry, with the first division Oh 'r'
Atlantic fleet, composed of the OoI
necticut, Vermont, Kansas and LOUIS
ana, is at anchor in San Francisco 20.
The second division of the nesS
under Rear Admiral Wainwright
NAMED in Puget Sound, where ~. or.
ships will be drydocked at the Bren''
ton navy yard. Can
All vessels will assemble ID
Francisco bay on July 4.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

John Mitchell, former president o.
the United Mine Workers, wants tc
run for governor of Illinois on the
democratic ticket
The coming spelling bee between II
pupils of the Pittsburg grammar
schools and the same number of the
Cleveland schools has created great
interest in the Smoky city.
Impressive ceremonies and parades
of the G. A. r., Spanish and Indian
war veterans and the national guard,
and general suspension of business
marked the observance over the north
west of Memorial day
The corner" in May corn which has
been run by James A. Patten of Chi
cago and his associates came to an
end Saturday and the "Patten crowd"
is generally credited with having made
about 100000 on the deal.
General Stephen d. Lee, commander
in chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, and one of the last three
surviving lieutenant generals of the
confederacy, died recently at Vicks-
burg at the residence of Captain w. T.
Riddby.
The weather report from Nome
says that snow has disappeared and
that the Behring sea ice has broken
up along the shore and Behring straits
are clear for the passage of the whal-
ing fleet. The ice pack is moving
north, and there is very little in sight.
The battleship Kentucky, on which
a case of smallpox was discovered,
has been ordered to the United States
quarantine station at Port Townsend,
Wash, until all danger of spreading
the disease is past. The patient re-
moved to the pest house has not de-
veloped serious case yet, according
TO the naval surgeons.
In the eighth annual tri-state ora
torical contest held at Seattle, recent
ly, Jesse II. Bond, speaking for the
University of Oregon on "The Evolu-
ton of Character" won over Herman
Allen of the University of Washing
ton and William X. Gwinn of the Uni
varsity of Idaho
A prize of SIS given by the King
County Bar association was awarded
to the Oregon speaker, and $25 went
to the Washington orator.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05
MONTANA SQUfBS.

Anaconda trapshooters are boosting
vigorously for their big Western Boost
ers' shoot in August. The breakers of
pigeons there have hung out $4,000
added money, which is tempting at
traction to all the crack shots of the
middle west and northwest, and up
wards of 300 are expected to come in
from outside Montana. A number of
the eastern cracks will come, and Spo-
kane will send over a dozen or more.
Advices received from Sheridan tell
of the arrest of G. w. and G. c. Wais-
of southern Montana and northern
Wyoming ranges, on charges of theft
of AZ sheep belonging to R. R. Selway
and A e. Upton, two big sheepmen.
The Waisner outfit has been raided
twice during the last year, several
hundred head of sheep being killed
each time.
Historic Fort Assinniboine will not
be dismantled and blotted out of the
Montana landscape. The war depart
ment has changed it's mind, according
to information received at the head
quarters of the department of Dakota,
in ST. Paul, and the old fort, with its
traditions of the incessant and bloody
warfare with the Indians of the early
days will be maintained and will
house the white soldiers as in the old
days.
Forsyth, Mont.-Friends of R. D. Nc
Bride, the well-known horseman and
stockman of this county, who mys-
teriously disappeared last August
while in Minneapolis selling a string
of horses, believe that he was a victim
of Mrs. Bella Guinness at Laporte, Ind
Positive proof is lacking, but the evil
dence unearthed thus far points
strongly to the theory that the Rose
bud stockman was ensnared by the
Laporte arch-murderess.
The federal survey corps is engaged
in running survey lines in the noun
tains near Philipsburg to determine the
amount of cordwood cut for the mines
of Granite county and the location of
taken. This wood was cut, it is
claimed, from land belonging to the
and it is estimated that
suits may be begun to recover about
100000 cords of wood cut, approximate
ing in value about s1,0O0,0OO.
The bulk of this wood was cut about
10 or II years ago during the boom
days of silver and was used at the
and Granite Mountain mines
owner by Charles D. McClue and his
associates of st. Louis, together with
few Montanians. One area of timber
land stripped clean is 10 miles wide
and II long. During the operation of
the mines more than 300 cords of wood
were burned ever "a hours. 1t is pro-
posed to make the mining companies
defendants together with the con-
tractors cutting the wood.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05
Plot Against King Edward.

Details of a search through New
York city by Scotland Yard and
Pinkerton detectives for a band of
plotters against the king of England
has leaked out. 1t is said the de-
tectives are shadowing the movements
of number of East Indians, members
of the revolutionary party.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05
Northwest Men Get DEGREES.

Among the students who will re-
ceive the doctor of medicine degree
from the University of Pennsylvania
medical school on June II are Leonard
Edwin Hanson of Wallace, Idaho, and
Robert Garfield Pearson of Starbuck,
Wash.