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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04

In the circuit court at Belle
Fourche before Judge Rice, Conrad
Dahlberg was found guilty by jury
of the larceny OF a steer, which he
shot while employed on the Ishal
Brown ranch in Meade county.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
MAKE THE FIGURES PUBLIC.
People Have Right to Know Who Con-
tribute to Campaign Funds.

Why should there be any secrecy
about campaign funds? After all,
they are not benefactions, but con-
tributions to the expenses of a party
by the success of which the contrib
utor thinks his fellow citizens will be
benefited. We all know that the Re-
publicans, who furnish the principal
examples of magnifcence in giving
during campaign time, are actuated by
the purest motives of Americanism.
They believe it will be for the great
est good of the greatest number to
give a new lease of power to the
party which has reduced the United
States to the fifth place among the
educated nations. The cause of Re-
publican neglect of the educational in
dustry is that Republicans are too OBJ
fuse to see it Is an industry and one
of vital Importance. We think Scot
land was probably the first country
which had a popular educational sys-
tenn, and it saved her from being COB
bled up by England when every other
country round about had been as
simulated without benevolence. Edu-
cation made the Scots more than a
match for the English soldiery, most
of whom could neither read nor write
and were proud Of this demerit. Since
Republicans are about to eXpend large
sums of money in trying to secure a
continuation of the reign of ignorance,
and since they will spend money free
ly in order to maintain conditions
which produce illiteracy and tend to
give them cheap, ignorant labor, we
should all have the privilege of read
ing the names of the contributors to
the grand old cause. We would like
to know who subscribes his thousands
and who his tens of thousands.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
CURRENCY AND THE BANKS.
Republicans Again Have Shown Their
Subserviency to Wall Street.

When the supreme court. in the
case Of McCulloch VS.. Maryland, decid-
ed that the government has the right
to charter banks to issue paper money
under the provision of the constitution
to coin money" it opened the way for
all the financial troubles we have
been heir to. That decision opened
the way to the national bank charters
which have since been the pets Of
the Republican party. The issue Of
their bond-secured currency has been
the excuse for extravaganza; and the
hundreds of millions they have made
by the manipulation of United States
bonds has been a evere tax upon the
people. The whole financial power of
the government has been used to pro-
tect and perpetuate the national
banks. During the late panic certif-
Gates of Indebtedness and Panama
bonds were issued to protect the in
terests of the Wall Street national
banks, not that the government need
ed the proceeds of those issues, but
that the Wall Street banks needed it
to carry them through the panic. Even
with these millions added to the funds
already On deposit the banks could not
pay their depositors except in cash
iers' checks.
1t is now proposed to fasten upon
the country, a bond-secured bank cur
rency in perpetuity, by adopting as it's
basis other securities than the United
States bonds" That is the purpose
of the currency bill passed by con-
gress; and the Republican managers
are responsible for 1t.
The secretary of the treasury is
mer putty in the hands of the Wall
street interests. The Standard Oil
and Morgan interests, under this "long
stride forward in rounding out and
perfecting the national banking sys-
TEN" as Mr.. Treat explains it, will
have a good market for their railroad
and other bonds from the banks which
will now be compelled to purchase
them.
Can you think of a law, passed by a
Republican congress, which has not
favored the Wall street interests, or
of a Republican secretary of the treas
ury who has not interpreted the law
in the interest of the same financiers?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, in a
recent interview, declared that the
heavier-than-air flying machine is an
entire success, and that within a
short time such machines will carry
the mails of this country and provide
the quickest means Of transportation.
It would seem from the reports of the
experiments of Prof. Bell and the
Wright Brothers, that this view is
well-founded. And if it be so, the gov
eminent of the United States will be
the greatest beneficiary of the inno-
walton; because ae%rodrones will supply
competitors of the railroads in the
mail service, and give us relief from
the railway m%onopolies. Such ma.
chimes would, however, make SNUG
Cling SO easy that our e sys-
TEN might have to be changed in or
der to raise the money now derived
from the tariff. Military and naval
methods would also have to be
changed to meet new conditions.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

decorations were even more piCtur-
esque, and the illumination scheme
was the most brilliant Denver ever at
tempted.
Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seven
teenth streets, three of the main
thoroughfares in the city, were reve-
lations in color. On Fifteenth and
Sixteenth streets there are eight iron
ornamental electric poles to a block,
four on each side of the street. On
these streets the poles were draped
with red, white and blue bunting.
Wires were stretched across the street
from these poles and from each wire
two American flags were suspended.
The flags hung over the street and
were weighted" to prevent them from
becoming tangled and torn by the wind.
On Seventeenth street the scheme
was the same, except there were only
six poles to each block, two at each
corner and two at each alley.
At each crossing two wires were
strung ~diagonally cross the intersec-
ton, from which red, white and blue
incandescent lights hung. The bust
ness houses along the three streets
were handsomely decorated with
bunting and flags. Elaborate and cost
ly electric display signs had been
put in place on the buildings, and at
night Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seven.
teenth streets were a blaze of light.
Electric display signs are one of
the main features of business life in
Denver. Every merchant has an cleo
trio sign, and as all Of the streets that
cross the three thoroughfares de-
scribed are live business streets, the
committee on illumination did not find
it necessary to add much in the way
of light to these avenues Of trade.
However, the business houses were
handsomely decorated with bunting
and flags, so the entire business sec.
ton of Denver was a mass Of color
when the big convention opened.
The people of Denver, in addition to
decorating their city and providing a
beautiful and commodious auditorium
for the Democratic national conven.
ticn, seemed determined to convince
every visitor that true western hos.
pitality is not a thing of the past in
this city. The real Denverite is hos.
pitable because hospitality is in the
atmosphere in the wonderful Rocky
mountain country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
TWO HUNDRED IN BURNING MINE
Troops Called Out to Watch Grief.
Stricken Relatives.

Yusovo, Russia-Flames are add,
ing their horror to the explo-
sion in the mine at Rikovsky Thurs
day, and a total death list of 800 is
feared.
Already 100 bodies have been taken
out. More than 200 men are still in
the mine and the flames make their
rescue extremely difficult. The most
pathetic scenes are enacted around
the mine, where the families of the
miners are gathered. Driven mad
by despair and grief, troops have been
called ON to hold them in check.
Aid has been asked of other towns,
as the hospital and medical facilities
here are inadequate. Many of the
bodies taken from the mine are terri
bly, mangled, showing the terrific
force of the explosion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

points of the stars were red and white.
Directly over the speakers plat
form, against the wall of the building
near the junction with the ceiling, was
a large shield, 16 feet high, carrying
six flags - feet long draped in artis-
tic folds. In addition to this main
shield there were four other shields
over the platform, each ten feet high.
The six flags on these shields were
eight feet long.
Just below the main shield hung a
mammoth portrait of George Washing
ton, IA by 16 feet in dimensions. Red,
white and blue bunting was draped
from the sides of the shield to the
bottom of the portrait of the Father
of His Country"
Directly under the last shield, on
each side of the Washington portrait,
was suspended a portrait, one of
Thomas Jefferson and the other of
Andrew Jackson. On each side of
these pictures a large American flag
was draped. These flags are 40 by
60 feet in dimensions. Beyond these
pictures, at each end of the wall, and
hanging above the gallery, was sus-
pended a pendant, ten feet in diane.
ter, upon which bunting was draped.
Upon these pendants a tiger was
painted. The back Of the platform
was banked with palms. Twenty
stuffed American eagles, with extend
ed wings, were suspended over the
platform, each bird carrying in his
bill red, white and blue silk ribbons
that were draped back TO the wall.
Balcony and Galleries Draped.
! In the auditorium the balcony ex-
tends all the way around the huge
building, but the galleries are limited
to each end. The front of the balcony
and the fronts of the galleries and
boxes were draped with bunting, SIS, 900
part of the decorative scheme. At
intervals of five feet shields, three feet
high, were placed.
Thousands of yards of bunting
were used in draping the corridors OF
the building and the walls of the bal
cony and galleries. Delegates were
supplied with small American flags
to wave when their feelings reached
a pitch that compelled al extraordin-
airy demonstration.
Although the decorations in the
auditorium were elaborate, the street
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
Freak In Phiiadeiphia Zoo.

Any one who wishes to see a real
live side show freak should go to the
geological gardens and visit the rep
tile house. A two-headed monster
reposes within, and it is neither
stuffed nor faxed. 1t arrived in a
consignment Of spotted terrapin. The
freak is one inch and a half In diam
eter and just twice as greedy a baby
turtle as its srothers and sisters, for
1t eats v~oraciously with both its
heads at the same time.-Philadelphia
Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

Denver, July 1.-THE Democratic
national convention was formally
called to order at noon by Thomas
Taggart, chairman of the national COM
mittee, in the spacious auditorium
erected by the citizens Of Denver for
the use of the convention.
Rt. Rev. James ]. Keane, arch
bishop of Wyoming, one of the most
eloquent and able prelates in Amer
lea, made the opening prayer.
Call for Convention Read.
After the delegates and visitors
had settled in their seats, Urey Wood
son of Kentucky, secretary of the ma
tional committee, read the call for the
convention, and a brief period of de,
lay followed. The committee on rules
then made it's report, and the officers
of the convention were announced.
They are as follows:
Temporary Chairman-Theodore A.
Bell. California.
General Secretary-Urey Woodson,
Kentucky.
Assistant General Secrotary-Edwin
Seton, Washington, D. c.
Sergeant-at-Arms-John /. Martin,
Missouri.
Chief Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms-
]. c. Fem, Indiana.
Chief Doorkeeper-Eugene W. Sui
livan, Illinois.
Parliamentarian-H. D. Crutchfeld,
Kentucky.
Chaplain for Opening Day-Rt. Rev.
James j. Keane, archbishop of Wyo-
ming
Official Stenographer-M. w. Blum
berg, Washington, D. G.
Temporary Chairman Theodore A.
Bell, in his speech, frequently aroused
his audience to enthusiasm, and the
applause was especially generous and
lasting where reference was made to
the record of the party or the leaders
whom Democrats delight to honor.
National CoIors Used.
Red, white and blue we're the only
ooioiS uSCu III uCCuIotlH6 tHe duul-
forum, and the decorations were the
most elaborate ever seen in a Demo
cratic convention. A unique feature
was So huge stars artistically ar.
ranged on the ceiling. These stars
represented the states, territories and
insular possessions, the names appear
ing in blue letters ond a white back.
ground in the center of each star. The
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
Waste In WASHINGTON.

During the last seven months the
forced rule among the citizens of this
country has been retrenchment and
economy. Literally and figuratively
people have been wearing out their
old clothes and saving their money,
when they have had any, for emer-
gencies. The only expenditures they
have not been able to retrench on are,
the heavy taxes which the Republican
party In congress has obstinately re-
fused to tighten. And while the load
has been cinched upon the backs Of
the people, the congress has gone on
spending the peoples money as If it
came as easily as water. E~xtravagan:.
as were the governments expendi-
lures during the booming times Of the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1907, they
have been exceeded by more than
&c. $780, 900 a month since the current
fiscal year began.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

When the question of relinquishing
to Turkey some forts on the indian
coast was under discussion, the late
Lord Salisbury wrote to Lord Cromer
privately: Il would not be too much
impressed by what the soldiers tell
you about the strategic importance of
these places, 1t is their way. If
they were allowed full scope, they
would insist on the Importance of gar
risoning the moon, in order to protect
us from Mars" That was written be-
fore the beginning of the more or less
profitable current discussion as to the
Availability Of the next outside neigh
Dor of the earth.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

The present liberal parliament has
been in existence long enough for the
london cabmen to learn that it is diff.
ferent from It's predecessors. An of.
iicer Of the house of commons said
the other day that ten years ago the
yard Of the parliament building was
filed every night with cabs waiting
for a fare. Nowadays cabs are scarce,
and the motor-cabs do not wait about
the building at all. Many members
ride on the public buses" or the un.
foreground railroad. and save their
money; they regard a cab fare as an
unnecessary expense.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
History Of the Sugar Beet.

The merits of the sugar beet were
discovered gradually. For ages it
was used chiefly as cattle feed. Later
the leaves were used as a vegetable,
and the roots were roasted as a sub
stitute for coffee. About the middle
Of the eighteenth century a German
chemist named Marggraf found that
the roots contained a considerable
proportion of sugar, but it was not
till 1901 that the first beet sugar fac
TORY vas built, in Silesia, with the aid
Of King Frederick William III.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

Long ago Defoe reminded his coun.
trymen, in THE True-Born English.
man." that the Englishman is com.
pounded of many races. The compound
Is more complex in this country than
In any other, and we have high hopes
OF the mixture. In a Wisconsin town,
named Roosevelt, which Is Dutch, of.
ficers elected were--if reporters and
telegraphers erred not-Strzelewicz,
Cichocki, Szalaj. Z~akozewicz, Swetlik,
Tevlaw, Kedziorski, Perzanowski, Or
zechowski, Lemanski and Walter
Tyler. Possibly, suggests Youths Com
panion, Tyler is a misprint for Tylov.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
PAYS TRIBUTE TO CLEVELAND.
Sought Little for Himself, Princeton
Dean Tells N. E. A.

Cleveland, Ohio-Andrew F. West,
dean of the Princeton Graduate
School, paid a remarkable tribute to
the late Grover Cleveland at the clos
ing session of the National Educa-
tional Convention Friday. Dean Vests
subject was THE Personal Touch in
Teaching"
Closing his address, he said:
Grover Cleveland's whole career was
filled with work, hard work, unreward-
ed work, intimate personal work. He
did not seek great things for himself
but he did great things for us and he
was himself greater than what he
did"
The directors Friday night selected
Denver for the 1909 convention.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

Leon Delagrange, the French aero
pianist, who has just driven his flying
machine more than six miles at Rome,
while the king and queen of Italy
looked on, says that his machine now
needs only a few minor Improvements
to solve the problem of dirigible flight.
We have an idea that he will find that
making these few minor improvements
is like putting on the finishing touches
to make a perfect poem.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
Canal Commission BUYS Tue.

Washington-The Isthmian canal
commission has bought the tug M. E.
Scully of Perth Amboy, N. j., for $64,-
500. She will be sent to the isthmus
about the middle of July, stopping at
Newport News, Va, to take in tow
two barges being built there for the
canal commission.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
Civil War Veteran Dies.

LeavenWorth, Kas.-EdWard f. Reil.
ly, a noted veteran of the civil war,
died suddenly of heart disease here.
He was a volunteer soldier in the
battle of Wilson Creek, and was after
ward first lieutenant in the First
Kansas infantry. He was promoted
to captain for %gallantry.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

Those new words that have been
written to fit the tune of Dixie" rep.
resent a total waste of time and labor
on the part of the author, as might
have been expected. Nobody wants
them, Does anybody suppose that a
new version of Home, Sweet Home"
ever could %supplant the commonplace
but immortal song known by that
name?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
Sues for $4,000 pamanes.

Tulsa, OKLA. H. Preister Of this
city has brought suit in the district
court of Tulsa county against the
Frisco railroad, asking $4,000 dam
ages for the death of his son Harry,
whose murdered and mangled body
was found in a sealed car OF wheat
In the Frisco yards at Francis, Okla,
two years ago.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

American men, according to a dis
affected continental husband of an
American girl, are slaves to their
wives slightest whims. As yet, how
ever. we have heard of no movement
for the emancipation of d~own-trodden
American men. The trouble with
them is that they glory in their
slavery,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

At last Homer has met his only real
rival. The seven cities" which claimed
the blind bard are outnumbered by
the municipalities which claim the
author of Casey at the Bat" The
love for really great poetry has not
declined.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
Gen. Forests soldier Dead.

Oklahoma City, OKLA. Fl. Free
man Of Roosevelt, a member Of Gen.
Forests famous cavalry during the
civil war, and a hero of many bat
ties, died at his home at the age Of
So last week.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
Onion Crop Of Texas.

Almost three-quarters of a million
dollars will be the gross receipts from
the Texas onion crop this year. Had
It not been for an excess OF rainfall,
which materially damaged recent ship
ments, 1t is expected the earnings
would easily have reached 81, 1000, 900.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

when you teach children to avoid
kissing, swapping gum and eating half
baked foods and to be clean, you will
be doing something to prevent tuber-
culosis," declared DR.. s. A. Knopf, Of
New York, at the recent convention Of
the American Medical association In
Chicago.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

San Juan, P. R.-Colonel Tor
ence Hamil, Chief of the Insular
Police, died here Friday. Col. Hamil
was formerly attached to the Fifth
U S. cavalry. The body will be taken
to Washington and buried.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

The Kalamazoo man who was struck
by lightning three times must prove a
great source Of encouragement to
those politicians who have held their
lightning rods for a long time without
getting results.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

Germany thinks it is entitled to a
two-cent postage with the United
States if Great Britain is. The cost
of transmitting letters written in Ger
man is no greater than that of send
ing messages expressed in shorter
words.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

The use of snake venom is increas-
ing in the practice of medicine, and its
price is soaring upward rapidly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

Thousands of years hence, when
scientists are looking for relics Of
prehistoric man, probably they will
come across several ancient automo-
biles in Siberia.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

Woman suffrage in Finland is said
by a male scientist to have increased
insanity in that country. We expect
to see this statement mildly disputed,
not to say laid out stiff and cold.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

At present the 'anias, if we mistake
not, hold the record for fast ocean
travel, but the les have aspirations in
the same direction.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

A story is told of a Connecticut
rooster that chews tobacco and tries
to expectorate like a man. Evidently
the nature takers are diving hard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

The French academy, when full, CON
tains 40 "~immortals." Two of them
Ludovic Halevy and Francois Coppee,
have lately proved their mortality by
dying.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

A celebrated doctor says that the
sun is not bad for blondes, as has
been reported. Did the doctor never
see a blonde complexion that had
eareIessly been left out in the sun?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

We congratulate San Francisco on
having a new date. Until now it has
been since the earthquake" Here
after it will be since the coming OF
the fleet"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09
saskatchewan,s Great Entire

Saskatchewan, Canada, will some
day be the greatest wheat-growing
country in the world, owing to the pe-
culiarly advantageous conditions Of its
soiI
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

An Englishman has discovered a
new Illuminating gas. Perhaps it win
throw some light upon those English
jokes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

Persons whose incomes do not keep
pace with their aspirations will be
glad to learn that it is quite correct
now to wear topazes, if they prefer
them to diamonds.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

Prof. Redlich of Vienna university
who has accepted an invitation to lee
ture at Harvard next spring, will not
speak in Austrian.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-09

If Peary is so certain he could find
the pole for $25 5000, he ought to have
no trouble at all in mortgaging his
subsequent lecture trip for the money.