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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-05-14

being handed the official white bn llot.
the women were given the yellow sam.
pie ballot, and when the vote was
handed to the judges il was slipped
under the box instead of into it,
Women voters early detected the ruse,
and there was some excitement during
the argument which followed.
The sportsmen of South Shore have
inaugurated novel plan for preserving
prairie chickens until the opening OF the
chicken shooting season on September /.
They are circulating a petition among
the owners OF bird dogs in that place
and vicinity by which the signers
pledge themselves to chain up their
hunting dogs from this time until the
opening OF the chicken shooting season.
All hunters realize the extent of damage
wbi,h each year is done to prairie
chicken nests and the Young birds dur.
ing the nesting and following the hatch.
ing season by hunting dogs ranging
over the country. 1t is believed by the
hunters that 1t will be great aid in
the preservation of tins kind of game if
every hunting dog is kept chained until
the opening of the regular hunting
season on September / Practically
every owner of a hunting dog who is
approached is attaching his signature to
the petition and pledge. The move
ment promises to extend to the owners
of every dog in the county, as we'll as to
other counties throughout the state.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
NO MARKET FOR THE BONDS
Sioux City Gas Company Files Griev-
ance-Wants Election.

Sioux City. Claiming that it is I'M
able to find a market for its bonds
because of clause in its franchise
the Sioux City Gas and Electric com
pany has filed at the office of the city
clerk petition asking that the OBJ
jectionable portion of the ordinance
be repealed and that special elect
ion for that purpose be held on Nov.
10. The clause of the ordinance to
which the company objects is in Sec
ton Z, which contains what is gener.
and provides in substance that the
city shall have the right to purchase
the property of the company at the
expiration of ten. fifteen, twenty or
twenty-five years.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
Farms for Sale

10 acres, lays we'll, miles of Extra,
per acre, $55.
40 acres, good soil and convenient
to Extra, per acre $3.50.
40 acrea, fair buildings, miles from
Extra, easy terms. S65.
40 acres near Extra, ordinary build
ings, very easy terms. S75.
80 acres miles from Extra, good
soil, lays we'll. $3.50.
100 acres l = miles from town good
but 20 acres, only $4,000 March L, 1909,
balance long time. A bargain $3.50.
220 acres near Extra, $1,000 new barn
other good buildings and land in good
condition, not rented and worn out,
easy terms and long time, or exchange
for small farm, best bargain any
where. $3.50.
100 convenient to Extra, good build
ings and all good crop land, $1,000
March lst, 1909, and balance long
time 5 per cent interest. S75.
lIV acres near EXlTA SOOO Duliulngs
easy terms. $40.
80 acres near Extra, good buildings
and best soil, $500 March lst: 1909,
balance long time per cent interest
or trade for town property in Extra
or Audubon. $75.
Also have 5, 10, Is, 20, 30 and 40
acre places in u mile of Extra. |
have lived here thirty six ysars and if
there are any bargains | should know
them. / will pay anyone's expenses
who will look at these farms and say
they are not exactly as represented.
JOHN Fl. RENDLEMAN.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
Nominated for JUDGE.

Hampton c. e. Albrook Of Hardin
county was nominated for district
Judge to succeed Judge w. D. Evans
who resigned to go onto the supreme
bench. by the republican judicial con.
vention here on Sept. Goth. Mr.. Al
brook, a well-known practitioner for
good many years, won out on the
twelfth ballot after a stubborn three
aided fight with Boeye of Hami't
county and Peterson of Wright. The
final vote was: Albrook, 80, Boeye Is
The nomination was later made un
animous.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
SUES FOR A MILLION
sumue Bute's claim against Geo.
Wells Estate Sustained.

Webster City-Buried in the an
pouncement from the Grundy county
court at Grundy Center, over which
Judge Ransien of Independence is
presiding that "the claim of Samuel
Butte against the Wells estate was
sustained" lies a human interest
story such as is seldom revealed
in a court anywhere without raising
a fervor of interest which sweeps the
nation The estate of the late
George Wells is worth several mil
lions of dollars, and the claim of
Butte, who lives at Stanhope. in this
county, where he is a rural mail car
rier, was for a cool million-or
rather property which is worth
practically that amount
Nothing was ever known of the Butte
claim by the public-until the death
Of Wells about year and half ago,
when, soon after the death of Wells,
who was an old bachelor, Butte filed
his claim, the whole state was as
founded. Despite the fact that 1T was
looked upon with suspicion, Butte kept
his own counsel and has now been
indicated by the court sustaining it.
The claim of Butte runs back over
forty years. In the early sixties he
was employed as farm hand on the
Wells farm in Grundy county. He had
a speculative nature and now and then
| took chance in the Louisiana lot
teries, then in the height of their
| popularity as speculative ventures.
He was lucky enough to win $4,000
at this, and Wells invested it for the
young man. A contract was entered
Into whereby Butte was to pay Wells
q stipulated sum per year for looking
after his property. Iowa land was sell.
| ing for almost nothin in those days
Wells bought up section after section
In Grundy, Kossuth and Emmett
counties. The land advanced as the
years passed and when Wells died
was worth nearly million of dollars
For some reason Butte was never abls
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
RoBBER PLEADS GUILTY..
U. S. Officers Are on the Track OF
the Other One.


Des Moines.-When arraigned be-
fore Commissioner Macarthur of the
United States court, George Neal con
fessed TO his part of the robbery OF
the postoffice at Slater early Wednes-
day morning. He stated that Neal
was an assumed name and refused
to give his right one. According to
the story told Macarthur by Neal he
had but one accomplice in the crime
committed and whose name he did
not know or where he resided. Neal
claims his home is in Wisconsin,
where his mother, window now re
sides. Neal as placed in the county
Jail to await the meeting of the fed
eral court which meets in Des Moines
on November II. His bond was fixed
at $4,000
Deputy United States Marshal Bid
we'll has gone to Omaha, where he
believes the man who worked with
George Neal in the Slater postoftice
robbery, is in hiding. Mr.. Bidwell
is of the opinion that the second rob.
Der, after ditching Neal at Madrid
took a train headed for Omaha. He
had sufficient time to reach the west
ern part of the state before the news
of the burglary had been flashed
there late the same day. At Omaha
Deputy Bidwell will be Joined by sew
eral government secret service men
and the clues which have led the of
ficers to believet that the fugitive is
In Omaha will be followed up.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
BYERs ARGUES THE CASE.
Would Remove County Attorney
kuhlemeier of Burlington.

Burlington General Byers
appeared in the district court here
Oct. 9, and argued the demurrer filed
by County Attorney Kuhlemeer in
the case to remove him from office in
stituted by the Rev. c. K. Lennat for
the Burlington Civic federation.
Kuhlemeier's demurrer was based on
the claim that the law did not in
struct him to see that the mulct law
was enforced, but to see that the taxes
were collected. Attorney General
Byers pointed out the intent of the
law which he held made the county at
torney responsible for the observance
of the law He made a strong argu-
ment and declared that the law of the
state regarding the saloons will be en-
forced to the letter. Judge Smyth,
presided and took the matter under
Amusement; with regard to the present
situation in Burlington concerning the
mulct law, Mr. Byers intimated that
all saloon keepers who were not now
under the law would be prosecuted by
the state.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
POLICE WANT s-HouR DAY
Sioux City Guardians of the Law De-
sire Shorter Hours,

Sioux City-The members Of the
Sioux City police department have fill
ed with the police committee and the
city council request for an eight,
hour day. A committee headed by
Chief of Police John Dineen held a
conference with Mayor w. G.. Sears
and Aldermen Hanlon and Kirby at
which the matter was discussed The
committee was told that the question
was one of which the board of police
and fire commissioners had entire con
troll The patrolmen are willing TO
work longer beats in order to bring
about the reform. They at present
work on twelve-hour schedule.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
shriners at New Temple

Sioux City-Exercises attending
the presentation OF the charter to Ahu.
Bekr, Order of the Mystic Shrine, the
youngest temple in the United States
were held. The formal presentation
was made by Edmund l. Alderman
Imperial Potentate of the order.
Shriners were present from all parts
of the state and from South Dakota
and Nebraska
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
PROPOSE wAvERLY BONDS
Proposition up to Electors for Bond
to the Extent of $4,000.

to the Extent of $4,000.
Waterloo.-The city council at
Waverly, where the electric light and
water plants were burned last week
has decided to submit to the electors
proposition to issue 100000 in bonds
for the erection of new plants. AS
the council is limited by law in the
expenditure of funds to one and one
fourth per cent of the actual value of
the property, a special election must
be called to authorize its action. To
call special election of this kind it
is necessary to have petition signed
by one-half of the qualified voters
which means 1000 signatures must
be secured. The first days canvass
showed 600 signatures and the remain
der will be easily obtained The city
owns these utilities at Waverly.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
to get a settlement out of Wells

10 get SettIeHeHt OUT OF WeIIS uuT'
ing the latter's life. He had lost the
written contract and probably feared
he could not prove his claim. Upon
the death of Wells, however, the
claim was filed. AS yet Mr.. Butte has
received no official announcement
from his attorneys, but is expecting
details of the decision at once. He is
a man past sixty years of age and
we'll deserves the good fortune that
has come to him in his declining
years.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
Where Bullets Flew

David Parker, of Fayette, N. Y, a
veteran of the civil war, who lost a
foot at Gettysburg, SAYS: "What the
good Electric Bitters have dine is
worth more than five hundred dollars
to me. | spent much money doctoring
for bad case of stomach trouble, to
little purpose. | then tried Electric
Bitters and they cured me. / now
take them as tonic, and they keep
me strong and well.n SO at Doffing' g
drug store.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
Dubuque Takes up 1915 Bonds

Dubuque The board of supervis
ors passed a resolution providing for
a 1-mill levy in order to take up $685.
600 in bonds outstanding, represent
ing the cost of the construction of the
court house. The bonds are due in
1915 and draw per cent. 1t is the
plan to take them up as rapidly as
possible and save the interest. II is
estimated that $4,000 per year can
be raised.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15
Are You Only Half Alive?

People with kidney trouble are so
weak and exhausted that they are only
half alive. Foley's Kidney Remedy
makes healthy kidneys, restores lost vi
tality, and weak, delicate people are
restored to health. Refuse any but Fo-
ley's.-Nick Dotfing
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15

DIR. l.. j. Oldaker, Dentist. Office
in the front rooms over the Chris
Jensen Jewelry store. All work In
my line promptly attended to.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-15

Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs
quickly, strengthens the lungs and ex-
pels cold Get the genuine in the yell
low package. Nick Dotfing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22
THE GUTTER.

baking horse has his dement's, but he is a four
winged angel compared with the automobile that gives
out 10 miles from home
The man who never had any high purposes is neces
sary ptabe failure in life but infinitely more pitiabe
is he who has known high purposes but permits them to
die out before fruition.
Possibly the most famous advice that Emerson gave
was to hitch your wagon to STAR The idea holds
good today we'll as it did years ago.
The man who believes he is going to win and keeps
that conviction clearly before him. almost always wins
1t is true that occasional dreamers fall in attempting
to reach too great heights. But is better fall while
climbing than to atrophy and die sitting still.
The man who tries and get tired, and then because
OF his WEAKNESS complains of the world and all that there
In is is apt to be the most hopeless of pessimsts The
heart that has felt enthusiasm and lost is the most mis-
cradle in the world
The worst fate that come to is to lose sight
Of zest in, ones idealsto unconscouslv drift down
from high level of thought and aspiration until one be-
comes hafcontent with mediocre life and duly salts
fled to go on in humdrm way merely marking time -
conscious of nferorty of purpose and am and yet with
out the energy propeng power to force oneself into
a higher condition of things.
2 When ones higher purposes to inspire and
quicken him he is growing old, whatever his years--yes
he is dying whatever the condition of his bodily health
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22

late miles to the "town" OF Bonita.
Late in the evening we asked a
halfbreed straggler where vas this
town. The next house." Bald he.
And so it was, with a little bulge
eyed man and his wife andyboy the
population.
That night the housewife was
forced to splinter beautiful new
patent carpet sweeper in a sudden
necessity Of having to kill a RATHER
coiled in her bedroom.
It's broiling hot in the valley. But
there is little patch of green at
Bonita and mountain snow streams
have even given life to cottonwood
trees along the road to Fort Grant
which lies at the foot Of sinister
Mt. Graham.
They say that, in the old days
recalcitrant redskins were tried and
executed on the parade grounds OF
the fort. 1t seemed to me that
could hear the ghost of the dead
savages ranting through the rafters
of the rotting barracks and officers
cottages which form a hollow
square and the once proud fort fOl
which Uncle Sam spent a cool hall
million. In the dark, sinking old
guard house ! thought | heard a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22
THE WORRIES THAT KILL.

That part of our animal economy supposed to be the
seat of the affections is considered elastic that fatal
worry is considered And yet at times something
vital gives way in that part of and the woman
renders the ghost completely well defined
disease recognized by the medical world had struck its
fatal blow.
broken heart is not only laughed at but the scen
tic gentlemen who know all about it Insist that the heart
is nothing but pump placed within for the control of
the blood circulation and has emotional feeling
In it than the bone Of the big toe.
And in their wisdom they transfer the emotions to
the brain, which they divide into chronological compart
ments.
~ What positive rot all such specuations are There
once senator at Washington who shot in the head
the bullet entering at comparison traversng benevoence
and rmness and lodging in self esteem He lived quite
as nationally far anybody could observe, before
at Washington is not of those brilliant specimens
whose gain loss of the thoughtful processes can be
easily marked and recorded
We locate the intellect in the skull because we feel it
is there. In the way put the emotions in the
heart; we feel them there.
The mother hanging the cradle of dying child
gauges the progress of the dread disease by sinking SEN
saton at the heart which clouds the brain, dms the eyes
and sends the breathing up through sobs.
1T is not the thought that kills, tres it is the
worry OF the heart and this writes wrinkles the brow
OF care, and sckens, if it does not shorten, life.
"a man, to be successful wrote French bohemian
attrbuting his axiom to Napoleon, may have bad heart
but he must have good stomach
Freting the affairs of life is like friction in ma
clnery-it heats, and rears The car wheel was
made success by bringing soft cold metal that might
melt, but could not heat in contact with the axle.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22

from age and countless suns. Here
and there you will witness the
miracle of the desert mirage, great
areas Of killing sands that cruelty
lie to the weary traveller, telling OF
cooling waters which fade to plains
of choking alkali as the deceived
traveller approaches.
Along the route are scattered a
few adobe section huts, tenanted
by Mexican cholos, half dead from
labor in the sun. Here and there
is a poor, struggling town.
You may encounter one of those
terrible storms of the desert, when
the winds sweep down from the
mountains and seem to gather UP
the earth's white covering and fling
1t to the sky; when the scorched
sand drifts like snow in the north
west and wells your hand before
your face.
Here and there, along the endless
stretch of sand. are little GASES
where lanky steers are nibbling the
sparse grass and careless cowmer
sit their scrawny broncos.
At last you come to Wilcox
which Is the station nearest Fort
Grant, % miles distant. sham
bling frontier town where Windy
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22

ghost knocking his knuckles on the
dry roof. 1t was only a coiled rat
tier disputing the right of tenantcy
Since the post was abandoned
the winds have laid many of the
buildings on the earth and all are
fast crumbling. They form a sorry
spectacle.
Over at Bonita or at Wilcox,
twice a month, the colonel and his
command" of two may buy stale
groceries. In the open season they
may have quail. Just at present it's
the open season for army bacon
only, and, in lieu of ice cream, the
colonel may dine three times a day
on this cured meat, providing his
nose will accommodate his stOm-
ach. Old Caleb Martin is a good
cook and treats his mess" with
hot biscuits and syrup now and
then. The colonel's pipe is his
good friend, but he has no taste or
disposition to drown loneliness in
alcohol.
In the event that one of the mil
lions" of rattlers some day sue
ceeds in singing the colonel, doc
tor being eight hours distant, old
Caleb has promised to knife the
wound and suck out the poisoned
blood.
Pleasure comes to the exile once
or twice a week when he receives
letters from his wife, daughters
and sons, whom he may not see,
for he has no intention of infiicting
his torture upon them by bringing
them here. Old comrades and
kindly-disposed sympathizers write
to him once in while, and this is
comfort.
Some thoughtful general at
Washington has kindly provided
Fort Grant with coffin, with a
knothole in the bottom Of it, in
case the colonel should suddenly
be forced to give up his command"
for a higher reward. One of his
recreations Is to haul the six-foot
box out into the sun to keep out the
mould.
When the president informed
Stewart that three years would
constitute his sentence for being a
nuisance" the colonel informed
the department that his quarters
reeked with vermin, the roof leak
| ed and there were other unpleasant
and unsanitary features.
Some person, presumably fat. or
| dered an officer to Fort Grant to
inspect. And so, If you please,
the colonel's cottage is being paint
ed today, and old Caleb and Custo-
dian Nail are helping the colonel
clean house.
| Stewards quarters at best are
shameful. His existence is a weary
stretch of idle days. And this man,
who is lawlessly thus prosecuted,
ranks fifth in the point of length of
active army service, has never
been charged with any violation of
rule, and is, in fact, merely another
goat Of impetuosity, of snap judg-
ment and autocratic power.
If any reader of this newspaper
sympathizes with the wretched ex.
lie Of Fort Grant it will be kind
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22

WILDERETTA HAMSBARY
spelling contest OF the National
Educational association during its
annual convention here. She is
little Wilberetta Hamsbary OF the
Hicks school. Cleveland.
IL q practice contest held after
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22
COFFIN ADDED TO Y
STEWARDS TORTURE
Constant Reminder of What Is Expected of
Him Sent to Arizona Exile From
Washington.

Bill" Drake entertains all day on
the hotel porch and the COW mar.
ket and the fate of Col. Stewart,
damned good fellow at that, boys,
are subjects Of untiring interest
now that Geronimo has quit the
warpath and the roulette wheel
sings no more.
After "Windy Bill" has initiated
you into the mysteries Of WILCOX
you travel by wagon the Is desc.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22

the regular Cleveland team had
been chosen, the girl showed her
ability. She easily spelled down
every one of the u members of the
team. Although the contest was
only practice one, this put her
in the first place as alternate, and
she will be on the regular team
should any of its members become
sick.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22
No. 3.-BY MERLIN e. PEW

FORT GRANT, Ariz., June %
A description of Fort Grant may
afford an estimate of what three
years servitude here may mean to
Col. Stewart, the American Drey-
fus.
Ali day and all night your train
from Los Angeles ploughs through
seas of scorching sand and skirts
mountain ranges that look weary
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22

Box Ball is very popular East *~
Do you know what Box
Ball is? %**
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22
PACKED A GUN But
HOLDUPS TOOK IT

William p. Todd, 1888 Wilson
av., armed with Al calibre gun,
was held up on Main av. near the
Munson building about 10 o'clock
last night by two men, both also
armed. They took $25 and Todd's
gun.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22
Negro Girl Defeats
IS Prize Spoilers

special Correspondence to The Press
CLEVELAND, o., June ga ne
gro girl may take part In the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22

(How the Rocking Chair Syndi-i
cate" Furnishes its victims will be
told in an article in Tuesdays
PreSs.)
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75c Night Gowns for ACC

ness unreasonable to write to him,
addressing the letter to Bonita,
Ariz.