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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27
The 500 Canal Takes the Second
Place Among All Water
Thoroughfares.
LAKE COMMERCE IS ENORMOUS.
William z. Curtis Tells Of Great
Merchandise Traffic on Uncle
Sans Inland Seas.

The Detroit River is the greatest
water thoroughfare in the world, writes
William L. Curtis, the Washington cor
respondent. During the late season of
navigation 23,T21 vessels passed
through IT, with a tonnage Of 4S,95S.-
32S, as compared with 24,077 vessels OF
46,OT2, ,66S tons in 1906. This shows
that the lake vessels are growing larger
as well as the volume of business. The
merchandise traffic Of 1907 through the
Detroit River amounted to 67,292, ,504
net tons, compared with COSTS, 155 net
tons for 1906.
or this total 46,966,1 1913 tons repre-
sented iron ore, lumber and grain from
the Northwest, south-bound to Buffalo
and other Lake Erie ports, of which
81, 5,AO5.S66 tons were iron ore. The
north-bound traffic represented 20,32G,-
81 net tons, of which 1S,427,121 net
tons was coal from the mines Of Ohio,
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Excepting the Detroit River, the
Sault Ste. Marie Canal Is the greatest
water thoroughfare in the world. An
average Of one steamer every twelve
minutes passes through day and night
carrying more freight than enters the
harbors Of New York. Boston, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Charleston and Savan-
nah combined; more than enters Lon
don, Southampton and Liverpool COM
bined more than the tonnage of the
Suez, Manchester, Kiel, Amsterdam
Corinth and all the other great canals
Of the world combined.
The total lake commerce for the sea-
son of 1907 was 10 per cent larger than
in 1906 and 20 per cent larger than in
1905. The increase Is due mainly to
larger ore and coal shipments, although
the movement Of grain and miscellane-
GUS merchandise, excepting lumber and
-four, exceeded any previous year.
The three neighboring towns at the
western end of Lake Superior-Duluth,
Superior and Two Harbors-which are
practically one community and have a
common interest, ship more freight
than any other port In the world, their
combined total for last year exceeding
that of London, New York, Hamburg,
Liverpool, Antwerp, Marseilles or any
other of the worlds greatest CONNER
cial centers.
The shipments Of grain included 63,-
1855 bushels of wheat, compared
with 47,T26,778 during the season Of
1906. The shipments Of corn were A.
355, 300 bushels, as against 1851, $40,
most of 1t being from Chicago.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27

The President of the Persian National
Assembly withdrew bis resignation.
In a battle with Moors, French troops
lost eighty killed and fifty wounded.
Attacks on Chinese pirates, on the
Grand Canal, resulted in loss of life.
Japan announced a scheme for divert
ing her immigration to South Africa.
Plans of the British feet bound for the
Pacific to sail in May were announced.
Federal troops of Mexico rounded up
q band of more than 1900 Yaqui Indians.
Fifteen persons lost their lives leaving
a burning steamer off the coast of Nova
Scotia.
Sir Robert Hart, inspector general of
Chinese customs, was granted long leave
of absence. -
''Ouida" was buried at Florence, Italy,
her nurse and her pet dogs being the
only mourners.
The report was circulated in St. Pc
tersburg that the Emperor had decided to
partition Finland. s
The organization Of modern-drilled
troops at all points along the Chinese
frontier was begun.
Mary Robson, the famous Druce case
witness in London, confessed that her
stories were fabrications.
King Edward, who has been suffering
from an affection of the throat, went to
Brighton, seeking better health.
The Russian war ministry prepared to
fortify vladivostok in preparation for
possible future trouble with Japan.
. The American expedition under r. Dor
sey Mohun, seeking to penetrate the wilds
of the Congo Free State, was repulsed.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27
Rheims. Rare Tapestries.

One feels the interior Of Rheims ca.
tl,earai to be immense without search
ing the guidebook for actual egures oi
length and height. One feels 1t to bs
srlendid without looking at the detail
nf the pillars, with their gilded capt'
tails. the lofty vaultins Of the roof, the
choir spacious within its simple grille
the windows burning with royal fires
fires lighted in the thirteenth century,
when stained glass reached Its full
iseauty-the tapestries glowing even IN
their faded glory. These tapestries al
ways seemed to me the distinctive fea
sturesof Rheims, the last touch Of mag
nificence 20 cathedral already mag
ilificent. They hang oil along the aisles
on each side.of tbe. nase -Gobelin tap
estrIes. .Pcrperssck tapestries, tapes
tries rarely secn sny~here nowadayi
savc safely stored ia mussssns. 1t Il
Sikethe sninptuouspsss Of Rhsins to die
play. them as if they vsrs 90 entirely ,
part OF itself r. the sculptures Of tn,
fatasle the angels and monsters q
the xtse Iciizsssta Roblas Penae,I !,
.Century
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27
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The University Of Wisconsin will have
Sour coaches to make its football eleven
for next season.
The Columbia Yacht Club of Chicago
is preparing for an increased interest In
yacht racing on the Great Lakes.
The Grinnell track team, last year the
champions of Iowa, will make a strong
bid for the same honors this spring.
The management at Nebraska has of.
fered the Thanksgiving football date to
Ames, the game to be played in Lincoln.
In a roller skating contest at Chicago
Miss Pinkerton and Miss Scuchard cov-
cred ffty-one miles and eight laps In four
hours. p.
In connection with the Cuban winter
festival it has been decided to inaugurate
horse racing on q new track at Buena
Vista, near Havana.
On a slushy track at Oakland, Cal, the
best race the other day was the seven
furlong event, which was won by Ra-
leigh, in a game finish.
Louis Drill, one of st. Paul's veteran
catchers, who played with Pueblo, Colo,
last season, will manage the Terre Haute,
Ind, team this season.
At Los Angeles, CAL, Plattling Nelson
was given the worst beating in ten rounds
that he ever received. Rudolph Unholz
won on the bit, beatiL Z the Dane at every
kind of fighting which the former light.
weight champiol oduced.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27

and contemplating the expenditure OF
$500, ,OOO. .OOO within the next ten years.
1t may not pass at this session. But
that 1t must pass, or that some meas
ure of commensurate magnitude must
speedily be adopted, every man in Amer
lean public life, from minor politician
to far-seeing statesman, has already
conceded. There Is no choice, no alter
native, unless 1t be the choice of pur-
blind folly.
Senator Nawlahds, who introduced
the bill, is one Of the experts selected
by the President as specially qualified
for membership IN the Inland Water
ways Commission-the Nevada author
ity whose broad knowledge of the sub
ject ranks him with Frederick H. New
ell, the director Of the reclamation ser
vice; DR.. w. J. MCGEE, the distinguish
ed expert of the geological bureau;
Clifford, Pinchot, the government for
ester; Senator Warner of Missouri,
who has been one of the most thorough.
ly versed students of the plan, and
Representative Burton, long acknowl-
edged as the Congressman qualified to
speak the last word of wisdom upon
the needs Of the country's rivers and
harbors.
in the next ten years." declares
Senator Newlands, "the United States
shoaid spend at least $500, 100000 IN
the Improvement of inland waters. The
government should enter into this work
in every section OF the country, on the
Pacific coast, the Atlantic coast, the
Gulf coast, and along the Mississippi
river and its tributaries"
The proposal is to cut channel at
tho north I'm end Of the intercoastal
canal, from Barnsta6le bay, north OF
Cape Cod, to Buzzard's Bay, giving ac-
cess to the comparatively smooth wat
ers Of Buzzard's bay and an inner pas
sage down Long Island sound to the
Delaware and Raritan canal, at Perth
Amboy.
The Delaware and Raritan, deepen
Cd, is to give access 30 the Delaware
river at Trenton, N. j., whence there
will be the route Of natural water
courses to the Chesapeake and Della
ware canal, which extends across the
narrow neck OF Delaware and the east.
srR shore Of Maryland. This will pro
vide a ship route from the Delaware
river to the Chesapeake bay.
Down the Chesapeake bay the route
proceeds to Norfolk and down the
south branch of the Elizabeth river
1t is likely to cut across Currituck
sound, through Coanjock bay, across
North Carolina, into Albemarle sound
and on through Croatan sound into
Pamlico sound.
Cutting through the Beaufort, it has
access, by means Of various cuttings, to
an inland route paralleling the whole
Atlantic coast line down to Florida,
and then on, skirtlng the Gulf Of Mex
leo and admitting the enormous traffic
Of the Mississippi, to Texas and to the
mouth Of the Rio Grande.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27
Nothinr nennite

The detective was trying to find some
slew to the whereabouts of the missing
man.
When your husband went out of the
house that morning, slamming the door,"
be asked. did he say anything that gave
you an idea where he was going?'
"All he said was that he'd be darned
IL he wasn't going to hunt some place
where he could read his morning paper
in peace"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27

FILES CURED IN TO ~ DAYS.
PAZo OINTMENT IL guaranteed to cure any
case Of Itching. Blind, nlss4ing O. Pretrud.
Ing Piles Ia to IA DAYS or money refunded
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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27
FAcTS FOR SIck WoMEN


Octave khanets tells stsry OF an old
darky in Florida who vas aaxious to
learn to read, so that he cesld read the
Bible. He said that IL he cosid read the
Bible he would want nsthiag else. A
friend of the narrator taught him to
read. Some time sfterward she visited
his cabin and asked his wife how his
Bible reading was getting on. ID.
Laws, Miss Fanny,"'. said this person,
-'he jes' suttinly kin read fne. He's done
got outcn de Bible an into de newspa-
pers rs"-Indianapolis News.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27
FROM SOUTH Ex-
PECTED.
u. 8. Farmers Are Recognising
Splendid Opportunities offered
nv Western Canada.

U. 8. Farmers Are Recognising
Splendid Opportunities offered
s#. by western Canada.
st. Paul, Mimi, February.--Present
Indications are that the Canadian
Northwest will draw an exceptionally
heavy movement of new settlers from
the United States this year. 1t should
surpass the banner record for 1907.
This 10 not only based on the fact
that the Americans have come to re-
alize generally that the Canadian
Northwest offers splendid opportuni@
ties, but also because the railroads have
awakened to the fact and are offering
rates to the Canadian Northwest which
are exceptionally favorable.
The lines which lead to st. Paul
from the east and south are Offer
ing homeseekers' rates to the Cana
dian Northwest this year which are
on parity with those In existence to
the southwest for q couple Of seasons.
These rates can be obtained from
any agent of the Canadian Govern
menb who will be pleased to give all
information possible regarding those
districts which offer the greatest In
ducements to settlers. The weather
throughout Western Canada has been
remarkably good this year. A tele-
gram from the winter wheat belt OF
Southern Alberta dated at Cardston,
Alberta, January 29th, says:
'This winter up to January 18th,
was nothing short Of marvel, In fact.
1t was the finest anyone can remem-
Der for twenty-five years, though there
have been others nearly as good The
days were fine, sunny and warm with
light frosts at night. 0vercoats and
gloves, etc, were discarded by most
people in the day time. There was so
little frost In the gsound that post
holes could be dug without any trou-
BILE after the first inch was broken
through. Winter wheat remained
fresh and green although there has
been no snow since the September
storm. IL there is an early spring,
winter wheat should gain great
start"
Amongst the reports Of the yield
last year the following extracts are
taken:
III. Howe, Of Magrath, Alta, writing
on November, 1907. says: Il have 20
acres in crop, 30 acres Of wheat and
z acres Of oats. Ny average yield OF
oats was 35 bushels to the acre, and OF
wheat 45 bushels. Tie value to me
was $35 per acre."
]. E. Haycock, of Magrath. writes
In November: 81 had 65 acres In win
ter wheat which went GO bushels to the
acre; oats averaged so bushels also
had IL tons of hay worth $40 per ton.
I got 900 bushels of potatoes from B
acres Of land; got 8 tons per acre
from 8 acres of sugar oeets."
J. #. Bradshaw, Of Magrath, had
1,030 acres OF winter wheat last year
which averaged 391s bushels to the
acre. The value of his farm products
per acre was: Wheat, S31.60; oats,
S11.20, and ba-lev sa5 ~
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27

Only One 'BRoMO QUININE~
That is LAXATIVE BRoMo oUININE. Loo
for the signature Of Il. w. GROVE. Used tn,
World over to Cure Cold La One day. zoe
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27

,tHeredity," the boarder with the rubi-
sund conntenance was saying, accounts
Cor nearly everything. Fer instance, in
herifcd my eyes and the color of my hair
from my mothers people. my chin and
nose from my fathers side of the house,
and"
You didn't inherit that nose from any
body" interrupted the boarder with the
sallow complexion. You bought it at
various places in this town and paid high
prices for it. t."-Chicago Tribune.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27

The back Is the handspring of
woman's organism. It quickly calls
attention to trouble by aching. It
tells, with other symptoms, such as
nervousness, headache, pains In the
loins, weight in the lower part of
the body, that woman's feminine
organism needs immediate attention.
In such cases the one sure remedy
which speedily removes the cause,
and restores the feminine organism
to O healthy, normal condition is
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27

country that was
ever presented. 1t
will have before 1t
the bill of Senator
Newlands of Ne
yada, creating a
first fund of $780,
100000 for an In
land waterway par
alleling the shores
Of the Atlantic and
the Gulf Of Mexico
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27
LYDIA Z. PlNkHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

Mrs. Will Young, Of 9 Columbia
Ave, 'Rockland, Me-, says:
81 was troubled for . long time with
dreadful backaches and q PAIN in my
side, and was miserable In every way.
/ doctorcd until I was discouraged and
thought would never get well. read
what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound had done for others and
decided to try it; after taking three
bottles can truly say that L never felt
SO well in my life"
Mrs. Augustus Lyon, Of East Ear,
Pa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
II had very severe backaches, and
pressing down pains. Icosld not sleep,
and had no appetite. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound cured me
and made me feel like . new woman"
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia K. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacementS, Inflammation, ulcera-
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
irig-down feeling, fiatulency, indiges-
ion, dizziness, or nervous prOstration.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-27
HALF 4 BILLION FOR CANALS.
stupsndous Scheme Of Senator New
lands, Of Nevada.

Congress at Its present session will
face the greatest scheme for the ag-
grandizement OF the commerce Of the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22

HOTEL GREEN, European rate
$3.50 per day: American rate $3.50 per
day upward.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22
REPRESENT RIVAL SCHOOLS
OF MAKING THEN LAUGH y

every line. His very appearance is so
ludricrously lachrymose that one can
not refrain from being amused at his
simulated misery. The more one sees
of him the funnier it is, till one is in
gales of laughter when, by rights, one
ought to be plying him and weeping
over his ills. One really feels bit
ashamed OF making fun of a man who
is in such evident distress, and guilty
conscience is not at all an infrequent
accompaniment of his turn. 81
Neither of these men is naturally
funny nor naturally woefuI; they are
simply good examples of the average
man. Is it wretchedness or jocularity
then that makes the best medium for
mirth?
"You cannot prove it by me-" said
Dewey when approached about it. He
had just come out of 'In Dreamland"
and was hopping his face. ''I only
know that my acrobatics seem to de-
light them and that I enjoy lots better
it laugh at me. For one thing it makes
better atmosphere all around, and
that helps. However. may be par
doned if say that have no record of
any other man who has been pursued
by the Black Hand and an infuriated
woman with gun, because he was too
funny to live. That happened to me in
Denver on my way out here. and III
tell you it made me creepy.
II had several letters warning me
that was doing too much for the
hilarity Of the nation; that times were
hard and 1t was shame to make peo-
pie laugh when others were trying to
impress the stress of the land upon
masters Of industry. In other words,
was creating prosperity and they
wanted the opposite. One day, as /
was about to enter the theater vicious
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22

company. Perhaps it may be pertinent
to add that she is not related to George
Bernard Shaw, the similarity of names
being merely coincidence.
MASON--"Brewster's Millions" a
comedy constructed by Winchell Smith
and Byron Ongley from the novel by
George Barr McCutcheon, will have it's
first local presentation this week at the
Mason, the engagement opening Tues
day night. The play had long run in
New York and is now being played in
London, where it Is one of the big sue
cesses. The story involves the efforts
of Monty" Brewster to spend a mil
lion dollars in a year, In order that he
may meet the terms of his uncle's Will
and inherit a fortune of $7,000.000.
Young Brewster is to be absolutely PEN
niless at the end of the year and must
account for his expenditures, not being
allowed to give the money away. He
succeeds, of course, but only with diff
ficulty. One scene OF the play shows
the deck of yacht at sea and has been
highly praised for its realism. In the
company are Robert Ober Brinsley
Shaw, James w. Horne, Robert Cros-
sette, Louis Haines. Misses June
Mathis, Ada May Talbot, Olive North,
Netti. Black and others.
ORPHEUM-"Polly Pickles Pets in
Petland," the latest and largest of Jo-
seph Hart's pantomimes, is promised
at the Orpheum for the week COM
mencing with matinee tomorrow.
This is frolicsome comedy, in which
a company of fourteen people appear
in various guises. La Sylphe is the
stage name of g young woman who has
won fame in every quarter of the world.
Her first notable success was attained
on the English music hall stage at the
Alhambra in London. From there she
has travelled all over Europe, northern
Africa and Australia. Her first Ameri-
can appearance is on the Orpheum cir
cult. Little Pich is another new name.
He is a grotesque comedian of Euro
pean renown. Fred Watson and the
Morrisey Sisters are clever dancers,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22
LOS ANGELES WILL
DOMINATE COAST
THAT THIS SITUA-
TIoN WILL COME
j. w. Abbott Urges City to Hasten
Organization to Make Region
Great Mining Center
of Southwest

That Los Angeles is inevitably des-
tined to outstrip San Francisco as the
dominant force on the Pacific coast
was the thought of ]. w. Abbott, a
n ining engineer of Phoebe, New, who
delivered the weekly talk to the City
club at its luncheon at the Westmin-
ster yesterday.
Although he said his heart was III
San Francisco, he said he saw the
great highway of transcontinental traf-
fic inevitably turning toward the City
OF the Angels and that Los Angeles
had only to exert itself to hasten the
supremacy of the city.
The development OF manufacturing
would, he said, soon see the day when
Los Angeles would manufacture more
furniture and vehicles than Chicago,
and that it was now, according to a
comparison OF population and the diff
ference in years, manufacturing more
than Chicago. The eucalyptus was
cestined to be the important factor in
developing the furniture industry.
To make the city mining center it
must bring into tribute all the regions
OF agriculture and industry. 1t must
have a government assay office and it
must have a smelter. The smelter in
dustry could be well established under
salutary conditions and without invit-
ing the disasters that have overtaken
the Utah smelters. BY prompt action
and the establishment of great facil-
tiles at Las Vegas, Nevada, he thought
the ore reduction of Nevada could be
diverted into this region. This was be-
cause the difference in haul over the
Salt Lake route from Las Vegas to
T. os Angeles over Salt Lake City was
113 miles and was an advantage hardly
to be estimated Largely, too, because
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22
says some old wise
guy, Consists in laughing at

f<TUMOR," says some old wise
III guy, Consists in laughing at
the woes of the other fellow"
Perhaps it does. If SO. that puts the
contradiction on that famous dictum
of poetess of passion-disputed by a
celebrated Washingtonian--whic runs:
Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone
But, when It comes to proving the
proposition. no matter which side one
may take in the controversy, one may
find ample support.
Take the Orpheum theater, that home
of fun, right now; 1t contains on one
and the same bill examples of each pro-
position. In Emmett Dewey one has the
chap who laughs and makes every one
laugh with him, from sheer rollicking
good lumor. James r. Macdonald is
the other fellow, whose very lugubrios-
jty and gloom make for nerriment.
And it is difficult to say which starts
tn more acutely ones risibilities.
AL in all. just because it is so much
jollier to laugh with than at another
at least. it ought to be--perhaps Dewey
is the better exemplar Of the art of ex-
tracing merriment. He goes for the
rollicking sort, and makes persons
laugh from inability to resist his own
infectious jollity. He is broad and
catholic in his methods; he scorns not
the use Of accessories and he revels In
joviality till he seems about to have
fits. And so his audience romps and
riots with him. and in the end. while in
most excellent good humor, is utterly
unable to say why
Now Macdonald enters with a
lengthy face, drawn down mouth,
and q countenance that spells woe In