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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
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Chicago--Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $4.oo
to S4.S5; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 97c to S9c;
corn. No. 2, SIC to 5Sc; oats, standard,
4Tc to 4Sc; rye No. 2, roc to soc; hay,
timothy, SLIGO to $3.50; prairie, 5000
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c
to 29c; eggs, fresh, 22c to &c; potatoes,
per bushel, 4Sc to SIC. ~
Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to 5000; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$500 to $4.65; sheep, common to prime,
$500 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 95c to SIC;
corn, No. 2 white, 53c to 55c; oats, No .
white, Acc to SIC.
St. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $685.; hogs,
$500 to $4.s5; sheep, $500 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.o2 corn, No. 2,
53c to 54c; oats, No. 2, 4Sc to Acc; rye.
No. 2, 75c to 79c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $50;
hogs, $4.e0 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
S4.25; wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1.01; corn,
No. 2 mixed, soc to SIC; oats, Ne. 2
mixed, 47c to 4Sc; rye, Ne. 2, Sic to SIC.
Detroit-Cattle, $4.eO to $3.50; hogs,
S4.Oo to $40; sheep, $3.50 to $4.75;
wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1!o3; corn, No. 3
yellow, 6Oc to Gle; oats, No. 3 white,
SIC to 54c; rye, No 2, soc to SIC.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
SLOT to $1.03; corn, Ne. 3, SIC to 59c;
oats, standard, 51c to SIC; rye, Ne. l,
SOC to Sic; barley, No. 2, 96c to SIC;
pork. mess, S12.52.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $500; hogs, fair to choice, $3.50
to $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to S7.25;
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs. $3.50 to S5.25; sheep, $500 to
s4.T5; wheat, No. 2 red, S1.oS to o
corn. No. ., 64c to 65c; oats, natural
white. SIC to soc; butter, creamery, 25c
to SOC; eggs. western, PIC to Sic. 4
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, Sl.0O to
S1.02: corn. No. 2 mixed, 59c to SIC;
cats, No. . mixed. 53c to SIC; rye, Ne.
;, roc to SOC; clover seed, prime, $1,000.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
KENTUCKY's TOBACCO WAR.
Night Riders Infict an Aggregate
Loss of Nearly 81, 900, OOO.

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The last exploit Of the Kentucky
tobacco night riders in selling the city
Of Hopkinsville, destroying 100000
worth of property and seriously wound
ing two men, has aroused an intensity
Of interest throughout the State aud far
beyond its borders. These riders are
the most conspicuous feature of the
war that is being waged by the tobacco
growers of Kentucky against the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company. BY reducing
the competition in the buying of tobac-
CO to practically nothing the company
forced down the price of leaf tobacco
until the growers say they can not real
lie enough to pay for raising it. The
tobacco crop Is a mainstay in many
parts Of Kentucky, and thousands de-
pend on it for their daily bread. The
growers determined to force the price
up.
The plan proposed in the beginning.
and which is still being followed, was
to form a combination of the growers
to oppose the combination of the manu-
facturers and by Withholding the to-
bacco make the tobacco trust come to
terms. Many associations of growers
q been formed in the different to-
bacco raising regions of Kentucky. But
some of the growers did not come into
the association ranks and others grew
weary Of waiting and sud their crops.
The more violent men in the associa-
lions have resorted to the measures
hat CAV rise to the night riders, and
by destroying the property of h to-
are not allied with them have sought
to carry through their plan by force
INT terror.
The HopkinSville rail was the second
time in twelve months That the night
riders seized and terrorized a city. On
December /, 1906, they entered Prince
ton, Ky., a town of several thousand
Inhabitants. about thirty miles north of
H~opkinsville, took possession of the po-
lice and fire departments, the water
works, the telephone and telegraph of
fees and with the town shut off from
the rest of the world dynamited and sci
fire to the Steger & Dollar and the
John c.. Orr tobacco factories, Which
were allied with the trust.
The first appearance of the night
riders was in November, 1906, when
they destroyed some tobacco barns and
small factories in Todd County, with
loss of about $4,000. The first rait
came on the night of November IL
1906, when masked bands entered thu
towns of Eddyville and Kuttawa. stu
ated close together in Lyon and Cald
well Counties, and destroyed the plant1
of the American SNUFF Company an
NJ. C. Rice, with $4,000 loss.
Besides these there have been ,nan.
smaller raids and visits to individual
growers. Tobacco barns have beel
burned. growers who refused to poo
their tobacco have been taken /
their homes and whipped, houses hav'
been fired into and the occupants
wounded. The aggregate losses b.
these raids amount to nearly $1,0OO.00C
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
ESTATES OF OLD SOLDIERS.
An Ohio County 20 Fight United
States for $500, 900.

Frank w. Howell, a Dayton lawyer |
Is now entitled to the worlds record |
as administrator Of estates. He has /
been appointed by Judge C. w. Dale as
administrator of S,432 estates, and ha. |
been compelled to give bond in tn.
Sun of S3,@O0,00O.
The appointment as administrator
grew OF the following situation
The central branch Of the National
Military Homes is located at Dayton,
and was established by the United
States government, by a special act,
March 3, 1865. The jurisdiction Of this
large tract of ground, more than a
mile square in extent, was coded to the
United States government by the State
of Ohio April ID. 1867.
Upon this land the Central Branch
Of the National Military Homes was
built for disabled soldiers and sailors
who have fought the battles for liberty
and union. AS far as the United States
government is concerned nothing has
been neglected, and the central branch
is a veritable paradise.
If all the veterans who entered the
central branch had lived there would
have been no contention and nothing
to Rarrate. When death comes the
veteran receives a decent II honor
able burial, n his belongings are col
lected, and If not claimed by relatives,
are sold, and the money, together with
all of the pension money to which he
Is entitled, Is placed in the "posthu-
nous fund.-" which Is IN the keeping of
the treasurer Of the Central Branch,
National Military Homes. Sometimes
the deceased veteran leaves consider
able property which he has gained by
investment or speculation with his
pension money. Four test cases are
now being fought out to determine
whether these estates shall revert to
the Montgomery County treasurer or
the United States government. 1t Is
commended by Mr.. Howell, the admin
istrator, that the money left by the old
veterans who die interstate belongs to
Montgomery County and should go to-
ward the school fuud. United States
District Attorney Mcpherson of Gin
cinnati is looking after the interests of
the government. He claims that the
money belongs to the United States.
The amount involved in the cases rep
resented by Mr.. Howell, the admins
traitor, is something over 100000.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
CHICAGO.

An improving tone appears in business
circles, although actual recovery in ac-
tivity is not rocked for before a return
to normal banking conditions is effected.
Srasonable weather brought a heavier
movement in the leading retail lines, and
the absorption of necessarics and Christ.
mas goods advanced to gratifying proper
tom, dealings generally rejecting a bet
ter disposition among buyers.
Wholesale branches mainly enter upon
the usual quiet attending the close of the
year, but there was a fair aggregate of
demands for immediate delivery and sat
isfaetory mail orders We're received fcr
spring merchandise. Mercantile collec-
lions show more promptness at western
points. although extensions are not infre-
quently asked, particularly where the
shortage of currency yet remains severe.
Defaults in this district again include
none of special significance, and the num-
Der this month thus far is less than a
year ago. Requests for accommodation
in January increases and current settle
Rents at the banks involve some renew
ais, but the financial exhibit required o.
borrowers discloses little disturbing weak
ness among manufacturers and distrib-
uters, and this creates a mere confident
feeling as a basis for future financing.
Money remains quoted at 7 per cent
minimum on local loans required for for
wHrding of f~oodstufs, but higher rates
are made for commercial paper bought by
eutside banks. Augmentation of gold re-
serves and note circulation strengthens
the situation and permits an expanding
shipment of currency to the interior.
There is no decline in outputs of rails,
wire n footwear, and there is better
inquiry for pig iron, although some con-
sufaers hold for lower cost.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %, against is last week and
25 a year ago. Those with liabilities over
$4,000 number 5, against 7 last week and
; in 1SS6.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10

The Nobel prizes were awarded, that
for literature going to Rudyard Kip!ing.
The treasurer of a Canadian railroad
confessed to stealing $1S5,00O in eighteen
years.
-Advices from London indicated that
Ambassador Bryce may quit his post in
this country.
Richard Miller, of st. Louis won high
praise in France, one of his paintings
being bought by the Minister of Fine
Arts.
Mrs. Taft. wife OF the Secretary of
War. whose ship was caught in a STERN
off Boulogne, had "a narrow escape from
death.
Mrs. Atherton won her breach-of prom
ise suit against Captain Yarde- Butler, the
London court giving Judgment for dam
ages and costs.
The financial program of Japan was
formally settled at the meeting of the
council of the elder statesmen on Mon
day. 1t involves n reduction in the ex-
pcnses of the army and navy for the next
six years, whereby the government will
save $20O,0O0,oO0.
Dispatches from Santiago. Chill, indi-
cate that about 5000 laborers in the Tar
apaca nitrate fields have gone on strike
ard business is paralyzed. The situation
is considered critical and warships and
troops have been sent to the troubled dis
%tricts, but up to the present time there
has been no violence.
Foreign newspapers expressed varied
opinions on the significance of the sailing
of the American flee. on its globe girdins
expedition.
The cabinet of the Shah of Persia re-
signed because of the delay in executing
soldiers who fatally attacked Tehefan
shopkeepers.
A terrible storm swept the -AtlafItic
coast of Europe, d French schooner sink
ing off Niarritz in view of thousands,
among whom was the premier.
Russia warned China on the failure Of
the japanese pact, saying that in case an
/ agreement is not soon res ched it will give
notification that the convention is ended.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
COAL MINE EXPLOSION.
New Theory Advanced as to the
Conditions Producing Them.

New Theory Advanced as to n
Conditions Producing Them.
Experts who nave made investiga-
tons of the recent mine disasters, not
ably those of Monongah and Jacobs
Creek, have come to the conclusion
that the explosions are caused by eli
matte conditions.
Supporting the position taken, it Is
a noticeable fact, they say, that the
recent catastrophes have occurred at
about the salne hour in the day, in a
zone Of certain altitude, in about the
same longitude and in places where
climatic conditions are similar. The
majority of the mines operated to-
day are below the level Of the streams
in the same sections, and, owing to the
moisture, the outside air forced into
the mines by the fans has been laden
with carbon dioxide moisture and 9TH
er impurities.
1t is suggested that if the air forced
into the mines was gathered from a
higher stratum and was heated sufi-
GENTLY INT otherwise treated to re
move the impurities the accidents
would be less numerous during the
change of seasons. Proper ventila-
ton with this purified air, it is be-
iieved, will remove to a great extent
the coal dust and explosive gases
which lie found to a certain extent
in every mine.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
TAFT SPEAKS IN BOSTON.
Secretary of War Defends Admin
istration Against Critics.

The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association of Boston gave d dinner
the other night at which Secretary of
War Taft was the guest of honor.
Here the Secretary delivered the reply
OF the Roosevelt administration to its
critics in Wall street. Mr.. Taft placed
the blame for the passing financial
furry where he and the President be-
lieve it belongs. He defended Presi-
dent Roosevelt's policies in respect to
dishonest and law-breaking corpora
lions, and said that the President had
been made a target by rich and pow
erful enemies. .a.
Secretary Taft declared the Presi-
dent was and is making a fight for the
honest business man. None but the
shifty and mendacious has been hit
and none but this class is raising a
clanler against the President, he de-
clared. H
Following are extracts froh Secre-
tary Taft's speech:
For eight or nine months past there
were many indications that the loanable
capital of the world was near exhaustion.
The conclusion cannot be avoided hat
the revelations of irregularity, breaches
of trust, stock jobbing, over-issues Of
stock, violations of law, and lack of rigid
State or national control of insurance
companies, railroad companies. traction
companies, and financial corporations
shocked investors and made them withhold
what little loanable capital was available.
1t would seem that our system of cur
rency is not arranged so as to permit it's
volume to be increased temporarily to
counterfeit the sudden drain of money by
the boarding in a panic.
The fright which seizes the depositor
and leads him to hoard his money spreads
like wildfi:e and is as unreasoning and
unreasonable as the spirit of a mob.
The trust magnates, solidly intrenched
with great financial resources, are not the
ones who suffer most from panic. 1t is
the great body of business men and wage
earners
1t is said that the administration has
arraigned the whole business community
as dishonest. l deny it.
l am earnestly opposed to government
ownership Of the interstate railways. Gov
eminent ownership means State socialism,
an increase of power in the central gov.
eminent that would be dangerous.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
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New unions of BARRIERS and of bartend-
ers have been organized in Grand Forks,
n. D..
Portland Typographical Union contem-
plates the organization of q mutual aid
society.
The entire membership of Minneapolis
Cigarmakers' Union No. II, is said to be
employed.
Last year the membership of the Brit
ish Am~algamated Society of Engineers in
creased 11,7S2.
Twenty-one new unions of horseshoers
have been organized in Massachusetts
during the last year.
A new union of mattress makers, car
pet layers, shade hangers and drapcrymen
has been organized in Boston, Mass.
Seattle Central Labor Union is warn
ing union workingmen to give the coast
territory a wide berth for the present.
There is no such thing as organized la
Dor in Porto Rico to amount to an influ-
ence for the betterment of the masses.
Common laborers in France are paid
40 to 50 cents a day. High-grade me-
chanics are paid from 81 to $1.2O a day.
All the stockholders Of the Union Lum-
Der Company, recently organized at Mem
phis. Tenn, are members Of the Carpen-
ters' Union. ur-s
Granite cutters of the Twin Cities have
formed a union embracing practically ev-
cry member of the craft in Minneapolis
and st. Paul, MINI.
There are only three engravers of short
hand in England. One lives at Bath. He
has suggested to his two London fellow
workers the propriety of a trade union.
Efforts are being made in Brooklyn,
n. T., to bring about a consolidation of
the Shoe Workers Council and the menu
bers of the Boot and Shoe Workers Of
America.
Census reports show that wages among
shoemakers of the country have been
steadily increasing. Brockton {Mass.)
shoemakers are the highest paid in the
world, it is alleged.
There are two unions Of brick and
building material handlers in Brooklyn,
n. Y, and they have been at war with
each other. Efforts to bring about con-
solidation will be made.
The societies not affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor nave a
membership of about 100000, making the
membership Of all the labor societies of
the United States, in the aggregate. about
100000.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
TO M IMMIGRATION.
Japanese and American Officials Out
line Plan at Toxic.

Japanese and American Officials Out
line Plan at Toxic.
There is reason to believe that the
entire question Of emigration of the
Japanese to America hasabeen satisfac-
torily settled, at least for the present,
after a series of conferences between
United States Ambassador O'Brien and
Minister of Foreign Affairs Hayashi in
Toxic.
1t is understood that at their last
meeting, the representatives Of the Jap
anese government outlined a plan by
which it is agreed to limit emigration
to students and commercial men hay-
ing means of support, and entirely to
prevent Japanese laborers from going
to America. This arrangement will en-
tail the closest supervision on the part
Of the japanese authorities. As the
agreement is verbal, Ambassador
O'Brien accepted it Professionally, but
maintained that any violation of its
terms would seriously embarrass a
friendly government. 1t is said that
Foreign Minister Hayashi will exercise
absolute control.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
BREV1T1Es

Thomas w. Lawson has been elected
president of the Bay State Gas Company
Of Delaware.
Tie chief of staff of the army has rec
commended the construction of officers
quarters at the army war college IN
washington at an expense Of 100000.
1t is reported that Heinrich Conreid OF
the Metropolitan opera house in New
York has had trouble with the directors
of the company and will retire at the end
of the present season.
Fire in a stable in East Ninth street,
New York City. spread to an adjoining
building, causing the death of one man
and injury TO another man and a woman
who were overcome by smoke. Nine
horses in the stable are supposed to have
been burned. ~
DIR. William L. Roos of Boston issued
n statement that he found in the body
of William Farnsworth Baker, the Boston
young man who died under suspicious cir
cumstances in Bagota, N. j., more than
enough arsenic to kill several strong,
healthy men. It was also stated that the
embalming fluid used in preparing the
BODY for burial contained no arsenic.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
TREATIES OF LATIN NATIONS.
Central America Peace Conference
Closing in Washington.

S0uLTd1 AIlcl1Ca CdSS SOAASA ~
Closing in Washington.
The Central American peace confer
ence, which has been in session in
Washington for some time, has practi-
cally concluded its labors and it is
known that the delegates are ready to.
sign seven treaties. The most import
ant step toward the preservation of
aeace in Central America consisted in
che agreement OF the treaty establish
ing a permanent court. The other trea-
ties will be:
One OF extradition, one for the estab-
lishlnent Of a Central American peda-
gogicaI institution and for the estab-
lishment of an international Central
American bureau similar to the bureau
Of American republics at Washington;
a financial convention, a treaty for hte
establishment Of better communication
between the countries, and a general
treaty of peace and amity.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10

The right of President Roosevelt to dis
charge without honor" the negro soldiers
who were on duty at Brownsville, Texas,
at the time of the famous riot in that city
will be tested in the Supreme Court of
the United States. To this end an action
investigating the validity of the Presi-
dents order has been begun in behalf of
Oscar W.. Reid, one of the discharged
mex. in the United States Court for the
Southern District of New York, with the
purpose of carrying it to the highest
tribunal as speedily as practicable.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
Surgery for Insanity.

DR.. n. NJ. Owensby of Baltimore has
created something of a stir in medical
circles by asserting that dementia pree-
cox, or precocious insanity, had been
cured in recent cases by the use of the
knife to relieve the thyroid gland of an
excess of certain chemicals in the blood
or the secretions. Out of five cases SO
treated, all but orc are said to nave re-
covered, whereas the disease has gener-
ally been regarded as incurabie. DR..
Spitzka of the Jefferson Medical College
however, saws that tie theory on which
Owensby operated las not been proved.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24

collection would be followed by ilie annihilation of the organization. Judge Landis apparent object in do- ing this was to punish the New Jer- sey mother corporation, known to be an habltual offender In accepting rec bates, Tho injustice of such a pro- eedure, as a legal undertaking, is ap- parent, MT Bonaparte now absolves Judge Lands of such a desire and contends that the best ends of justice have been gained when m offensive corporation has been fined out of ex- istenee, doctrine that would prove very destructive to our industries were It carried out consistently wherever large or small abuses had been per- perpetrated.
 The whole affair offers abundant ev- idence of the necessity the American Bar association fig calling attention to- that appeal cases should be decided upon their true merits and not upon their technical points, Had Judge Grosscup decided the Standard oil case as whole, 1t is probable there would have been no such mix-up. His decision would have been final and convincing.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24
Mr, McLenn md others.

lSpflnRHelu HepHpllcdn,)
 The announcement by George r Me Lean of Connecticut that he will be A candidate for Mir, Brandegee's seat In the United States senate In case Mir Lilley Is nominated and elected gov ernor, brings Into the open once more a figure that was retired 10 the back ground when MT. Brandegee was elect cd, to his present office, MT, Mclean was one of the best governors Connect lcut has had In recent years, although his championship of constitutional re- form did not end successfully. He was originally intended for senatorial hon ors. as the successor of either General Hawley or Mir, Platt, but the well-or- ganlzed combination behind him was shattered when Allen W, Paige proved himself strong enough to hold tho bal ance of power In the legislative contest Mir. Mclean now identifies hls fortunes with Mir. Lilley's, and makes it known that in his view, Mir Lakes nomination for governor would mean senator Brnndegee's reelection If Mir. Brook CT of Ansonin the Connecticut member of the republican national committee Ia also senatorial candidate, it Is bv no means certain that the senatorial field Is to be partitioned in this man nor
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24
Dcbs, the "Inll Graduate"


 In discussing sportvely Mir. DebH' "red special" as the socialist candi- dates special train is to be called, the New York Times introduces him by saying that he can boast of being q jail graduate" Being Jail graduate Is not so nice as being Yale graduate, like Mir. Taft, but after all IL Is sort of distinction which has never hurt MT. Debs as q votegetter. In 1904 he poll ed as presidential candidate over 100000 votes Some observers think he vii gain stlll larger support thls year. The fact that Debs' jail recor0 was the outcome of his leadership o, strike, in which he was enjoined by the courts and subsequently, sentences for contempt, might be studied wit. some profit In these times. The trutL seems to be that among large numbers of people no social or political stigma attaches 10 a man who got his Jail rec ord as Debs got his, and such a truth has some bearing apparently upon ths Injunction question The English suf. fragettes go to jail gladly. and they suffer no social penalty for their pena experience IL is usually time 10 over. haul things somewhat, with an eye tt re form, In whatever line jail sentence. produce popular heroes