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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
CLASSIFICATION OF
FREIGHT RATES
Commission Would Reduce
Classification and Adjust
Joint Rates.

Sioux Falls, S. D., March 2.-About
the usual mount OF business was
transacted during the regular monthly
meeting of the state board OF railroad
commissioners, which has just been
held at the headquarters of the com
mission in this city.
The board, in accordance with a petit
ton filed with 1t by a metal culvert
manufacturing company of Sioux alls,
has decided to TAX up with the western
classification committed the matter OF
reducing the present rate on shipments
of the character made by the company.
The present rate If double first class,
whereas it formerly was second class.
The petition OF the company asks that
the classification be placed where it
formerly was, the present rate being
stated to be nearly prohibitive.
one of the most important matters
TO come before the board was the Dues
ton of joint rates being established
throughout the state. The matter was
called to the attention of the board by
a number of shippers, jobbers and com
mercial bodies in different parts of the
state. The railroad commissioners al
ready have gathered a great deal of
data relating to this subject and will
make further Investigations. 1t Is pos
sible that hearings may be called for
the purpose of taking testimony bear
ing upon the matter.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
CITED TO COURT
IN CONTEMPT CASE
Sheriff and Real Estate Man
Trespass Upon Rights of
Receiver.

Sioux Falls, S. D.. Feb. 27.-Judge
Garland, of the United States court in
this city, has ssued an order requiring
Sheriff Charles Lindquist, of Day coun-
ty, and David B. Compton. a well
known real estate dealer residing at
Webster, county seat of Day county,
to appear before him on March 4 next
be punished for contempt of court.
Recently creditors of Arthur j. RE
ger, of Watertown, owner of nine grain
elevators situated on railroads in the
northeastern part of the state filed a
petition in the federal court asking that
Rieger, who was alleged to be insolv-
ent, be declared an involuntary bank
of a receiver. Pending a hearing in
the case, Judge Garland appointed
Charles Z. Mckinney, a prominent
Sioux Falls banker, to the position of
receiver for the property of Rieger.
Compton alleged that he had 1000
bushels of wheat and other grain in
Rieger's elevator at Webster and a few
days g commenced an action in the
Day county courts to replevin the grain
which he alleged to belong to him. AT
the time the grain already had passed
into the possession of Receiver Nc
Kinney. Compton placed the replevin
papers in the hands of Sheriff Lind
quist, who, going to the elevator, broke
into the building, it is alleged, and re-
moved the 1000 bushels Of grain in
question.
1t is stated that other parties who
took similar action to recover grain
from Rieger's elevators after they had
passed into h possession of Receiver
Mckinney also will be cited to appear
before Judge Garland and show cause
why they should not be punished fol-
! contemDt
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
COUSINS AGREE TO
BIDE THEIR TIME

Huron, S. D., Feb. 26.-Orva Johnson
and Ada Pierson, the two young people
who eloped from Claremont and who
were AXE into custody here a day or
two since, We're confronted last even
ing by Sheriff Elswood and officer
Crawford, of Groton. These gentlemen
represented the irate father of Miss
Ada, by whose direction the couple
We're arrested here. The girl declares
tina she is above the g of Is years
and her father has no authority to in
tere With her affairs. After a confer
ence. an agreement was entered into,
whereby Miss Pierson returned last
evening to make her home with friends
in Claremont, a village near Aberdeen,
and by this agreement IL
is barred from again. entering within
the borders, or making his home again
in Brown county. After the agreement
had been signed, the girl declared that
the separation would be but temporary;
that she would become the wife Of
Johnson, although they are own
ms, and prevented from contracting
marriage in the state of South akota
Johnson bade the girl an affectionate
goodby and departed for Minneapolis a
few moments after the train for the
north had left the station. The young
man, Eric Suther, who planned the
elopelnent, and was also taken into Gus
tody mere, was compelled to pay the
expenses of the whole affair, amount
ing to S125.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
CATS AND GUESTS
ARE GUARANTEED

Chicago, Feb. ga South Dakota
bride and bridegroom and a score Of
wedding guests who participated in a
marriage at h residence Of Mrs. War
rem E. Colburn, south side social lead
er and cat fancier, had scarcely
left the house when a message
came. from the Colburn family physi-
clan, DR.. Nixon Davis, that Mrs. Col
burns maid, Hannah Bellstrom, was
suffering from diphtheria and that the
house would have to be qu%arantined.
Those who have been shut off from
the world by the strict rule of the
health department are the stricken
maid, Miss Bellstrom, Mrs. Colburn.
Mrs. M. E. Washburn, of Spokane,
Wash, who is visiting Mrs. Colburn.
and 20 cats of high degree, the very
same felines who have contributed to
the fame of the "Brushwood cattery.,
The bride and bridegroom, who so
narrowly escaped being held under lock
and key for an indefinite period fol-
lowing their happy marriage are Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore F. Nesbit. They are
now speeding toward California on
their honeymoon, sweetly ignorant of
all h dangers and discomforts that
they missed by reason of their hurried
departure.
Mr.. Nesbit is a wealthy retired mer-
chant of Watertown, S. D., and his
bride was Miss Rhoda A. Briggs, who
formerly lived in WATERFOWL, but who
for a year preceding her marriage has
occupied a place in the home Of her
friend, Mrs. Colburn.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
FIT UP "SANCTUM"
FOR Mr.. ROOSEVELT

New York. Feb. 25.-The Outlook Of
March 6, which probably will be pub
1ished on March 5, will contain MI.
Roosevelt's first article written as an
editorial contributor. The greatest
vigilance is being exercised to keep any
part of this article from appearing IN
print before the writer has ceased to
be president.
Mr.. Roosevelt has written from time
to time for the Outlook since it became
known that he was to be connected
with that weekly, but his u%tterances
have not been editorial.
Lawrence Abbott, president OF the
Outlook company has had a suite Of
two rooms fitted up in the Kennedy
building for Mr.. Roosevelt. There the
ex-president will have his stenographer
and private telephone. His name will
not be on the door of his suite, as that
would make 1t too easy for persons to
get to him., but it will be on the door
leading to he Outlook offices in the
G building.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
JACOB SCHIFF FOR
AN INCOME TAX

New York, Feb. 26.-An income tax,
designed to overcome objections which
We're raised when the tax was last i'm
posed is suggested by Jacob H. Schiff,
of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb &
Co, as a means of meeting the increas-
ing deficit in the United States treas
ury.
Discussing the plan, Mr.. Schiff, after
c~ondemning the issuing of additional
government securities as "pernicious
and dangerous said: What we need
is a real revenue producing system,
which shall interfere in no way and af-
feet as little as possible questions con-
nected with the tariff or the country's
bank or currency systems. / believe
this is to be found in the income tax.
Charles II. Trent, treasurer of the
United States. favors 81 direct proper
tional tax on incomes.
II believe that it would assist con-
siderably and am in favor of an income
tax coming from business efforts and
the result of a mans labor" he said.
"As a matter of fact, I feel that it
would be quite fair to tax all who earn
more than $1,000 a year; to have an as
cending scale, as it We're, but uniform"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
JNO. D. DEFENDS HIS
TREATMENT OF WIDOW

New York. Mch. John d. Rookie
Teller at last breaks the silence of 81
years to defend himself against a story
figuring prominently in writings Of
those who take an u~nfriendly view Of
him and of the Standard Oil company,
which, IF 1t were true YOU represent
a shocking instance of cruelty in crush
ing a defenseless woman"
Mr.. Rockefeller refers to the Backus
purchase made by the company of
which he was the head in 1873 and
which often is cited as an example of
the relentless cruelty of the Standard
Oil company. Mr.. Rockefeller then pro-
ceeds to tell how the widow of f. M.
Backus, who had been engaged in the
lubricating oil business, before his
death had personally requested Mr..
Rockefeller to conduct the negotiations
with her in reference to purchase by
Standard Oil company Of the property
left her by her husband.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
FEDERAL COURT
HAS JURISDICTION

Sioux Falls, S. D., Mich. Judge
Garland. of the United States
court. as a result of argu-
ments made before him today de-
cided that his court had jurisdic-
ton to the exclusion of all other courts
in the case involving the act of the
state legislature in reducing passenger
fares in South Dakota from 8 to 2 cents
per mile. He discussed the question
as to whether the state supreme court
or federal court had jurisdiction in the
case.
Judge Garland held that this jurisdic-
ton had existed from the time of filing
the first bill in the case by which the
state board of railroad commissioners
sought to reduce passenger rates to
21h cents per mile. Railroads In the
present case involving the 2-cent rate
are permitted to file their suits as sup
Elemental to the original suits.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
CONGRESSIONAL
APPORTIONMENT
BILL IS KILLED
Appropriation Measures Travel
Jericho Road and Are
Left Stranded.

Pierre. S. d, Mch. 1.-What the spe-
cial appropriations nave coming as they
advance on the calendar was indicated
yesterday in the house when the Red
field hospital bin, asking for $4,000 for
new buildings, came in and went light
u again" to the junk pile. 1t may be
reconsidered.
The bill for special appropriations at
the university did not W an opportu-
nifty to follow it, because it's friends
shouted themselves hoarse to get it off
the calendar.
The capitol building bill. calling for
$45, 900, did not call in vain, presum-
ably for the reason that most of the
members Expect to come back two
years later and want to hold sessions
in the new capitol.
An evening session was held by the
house to clear the calendar. The sen
ate contented itself with substituting
the Ewart bill providing for congress
Sional districts for the Hitchcock bin
n then deliberately killing the for
mer.
Pierre. S. d, Mch. 1.-The bill to
limit the number Of saloons and in
crease the license fees is lost.
The county auditors salary bill and
$50, 900 fer a heating plant at the state
university passed
Reconsideration of appropriation of
$50, 600 for new buildings at the North
ern insane hospital is pending. 1t will
probably pass.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
TAX COMMISSION
BILL IS KILLED
ous Delivers the Decisive
Blow-supreme Judge Meas
ure Goes to Governor.

Pierre. s. D.. Feb. 26,-Tbere was
ao+biue Ioft of the tax commission
measure when the house got through
win If Yesterday afternoon. Regard
less of the leanings toward more sys-
+amatic taxation it proposed to create
three new salaried offices ana inns was
enough to put it to sleep.
The senate passed the house supreme
court bill without amendment, creating
two new districts, n the measure VIII
become a law when it receives the sig
nature OF the governor. 1t forms new
districts in the northern and southern
uortions of the state. In the northern
district there is talk OF Judge Mccoy.
OF Aberdeen. for supreme Judge, anu
Judge Howard, of gettysburg, Is Il
candidate. Judge Smith. OF
L. C. Ericsson, of ELK POINT, ana r. %.
Trip. of Yankton. are mentioned lor
the iudgeship from the southern dis
trict. The appointments will be made
by the governor. The bill for n stand
ard form of fire insurance policy was
accepted by the senate. Whlch also
voted to repeal the nursery law The
house passed it's own bill to prevent
brewers or wholesalers from engaging
in the retail liquor bushes OF assisting
Others to do so,
Pierre. s. d, Feb. 26.-The confer
ence committee on rate of interest on
the warrants bin reported a compro-
mise today, fixing the rate of interest
at 6 per cent. with the proviso that
when $50, 900 are registered the treas
urer shall issue r~efunding warrants at
5 per cent. 1t was feared that the .
per cent limit on small warrants would
put them below par.
A bill come into the house today re-
curing a license and a $4,000 bond
from land men,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
GRAND OPERA CAREER
FOR A CHICAGO SINGER

Chicago, March 2-Tomorrow morn
ing will see at least one happy girl
leaving Chicago for New York. Miss
Belle Hulburt Forbes, of 3O8 North
State St, will start then for the East.
and on Tuesday will sail for Germany.
there to prepare for her entrance upon
a grand opera career. The young So
prano goes to Europe under especially
favoring circumstances, for she is to be
the protege of no one less than Nine.
Sembrich herself. The great Polish
artist, on the occasion of her visit to
Chicago last October, heard Miss
Forbes sing, and was so impressed with
the voice, personality n talent of the
young girl that she volunteered to in
terest herself in her behalf.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
WOMAN FINDS PEARL
COOKED TO A FINISH

Yankton, S. D.. March 2.~-While en-
gagged in preparing some oysters for a
meal, Mrs. Dan Brooks, OF his city,
heard the rattle of something in the
kettle. She went to fishing with a
spoon and experienced the pleasure OF
pulling out a fine pearl. The gem was
submitted to a Sioux City expert who
said 1t was worth $500, if the hot water
had not come in contact with it. AS it
was, while 1t a fine shape and size.
it's value had been nearly destroyed,
owing to the action of the water,
which had removed the color. Mrs.
Brooks has decided she will from now
OF loo carefully for pearls every time
she buys oysters. This is something in
fact she has always done. but omitted
it when the pearl did arrive.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
%DRUNKARD: ONE WHO
GETS DRUNK TWICE A YEAR

Springfield, Ill, March 2.-Young men
who frequent saloons will not be per-
mitted to enter into matrimonial rela-
lions In Illinois IL q bill introduced in
the house be enacted Into law, and it
probably will pass.
The bill was introduced by Repre-
sentative Groves, and amends the
marriage laws Of the state by declar-
ing an habitual drunkard incapable of
contracting marriage and defining an
"habitual drunkard' to be a person
who becomes intoxicated twice In a
year. The bill provides. also, that ap-
plicants for marriage licenses shall
make affidavit that they have not beer
Intoxicated twice in the preceding year.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
DAKOTA SOLONS
PULLING over
APPROPRIATIONS
Last Days of the Session Given
Over to Sitting Of Demands
for Money.

Pierre. S. d., Feb. 25.-Not much Of
important legislation will be enacted In
the remaining 10 days of h session.
The appropriation bills will be the CEN
ter of interest and there will be both
extravagant demands ard strenuous
opposition to them.
A deposit insurance law will be-
passed, either the one already past the
house or the Norbeck senate bill, or a
compromise between the two.
Ewert's negotiable instrument bill
which passed the senate Is meeting
With opposition in the house and APP
pears to be scheduled for defeat.
Both houses We're in recess yesterday
and beginning their sessions again his
rF+a-.,,nnJ -.aE tH
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
ARMOUR SILVER STOLEN:
SUMMER HOME A WRECK

Sufield, Conn, March 2.-Solid silver
war to the value of hundreds Of dol
lars was taken from the home OF Mar
TIN III. Sheldon asst night. The most
Of the property belonged to Mrs. j.
Ogden Armour, OF Chicago. Mrs. Shell
sdon's daughter.
The house is closed for the winter.
the occupants. according to their Gus
tom. having gone to New York to live.
The interior of the residence was prac-
tically wrecked, the robbers in their
search having broken and smashed
doors. china closets. cabinet drawers,
and in other ways inflicted injury unon
costly furniture.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
OBALDIA TELLS
ABOUT U. s. CONGRESS

Panama. March President Obaldia
of the Republic of Panama, cabled I'd
William Nelson Cromwell as follows:
II am sur those slandered by Rain
ey congressman from Illinois) will vim
dictate themselves. "A reputation at
tackled does not suffer by the impos-
lures OF a rabid representative.
Panama a only words of praise
tor you and the others insulted. I have
reformed my belief regarding the re-
spectability of members of the Ameri-
can congress. Among them are liars
indecent n ignorant as a superlative
degree"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
GRAIN BUYER is
SHORT ABOUT $1,000

Aberdeen, S. D., Feb. 27.-J.D Rust.
agent for the Pacific Elevator company
at Leola until a short time ago, has
departed for his old home in Germany,
and an agent for a Twin City bonding
company is At Leola investigating
Rust's books, 1t having been discoy-
r that an alleged discrepancy in his
accounts OF about $1,000 has been MADE.
Rust's accounts were correct in De-
Scenlber, when the company's auditor
went over his books. but the alleged
shortage, it is claimed. took place since
then.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
JUVENILE ELOPERS
HELD IN CUSTODY,

Huron, S. D., Feb. 25.-A telegram
from Clairmont. Brow county, Satur-
day evening, marred the joys of Ada
Pierson and Qva Johnson, two Brown
county young people, who eloped from
Clairmont that day. They were on
their way to Minneapolis when taken
into custody here by Officers Barker
and Hawley, and are being held await
ing Instructions from George H. Pier
son, father of the young lady, who
claims that she is under age. Johnson
says he is % years old and that the
lady is competent to become his wife.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
STATE TREASURER CALLS
AZ 5000 WARRANTS

urer Johnson is not allowing any great
accumulation of the general fund to
pile up before he calls in outstanding
warrants. BY his means he V the
state quite a little interest money,
which would be added by allowing the
warrants to run a little longer time.
AS he has pledged himself to take no
interest ON the state funds, there is
no special object in allowing warrants
to stand out until the fun is large
before making a call, and his recent
call for $40, 900 of warrants shows his
inclination along that line.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04

It would not seem that a law against
tho sale of rotten eggs would be nee
essary in these days, but Pennsylvania
Seens to think one expedient. It APP
pears that in Philadelphia there is a
large trade in riots" and spots
spoiled. cracked and dirty eggs-and a
bill has been offered in the Pennsyl-
vania legislature to make their sale
and use a crime. RIOTS" and spots"
are bought by wholesalers, who sell
Them to bakers at about 6 cents a doz-
en-. With this fact known. the house
wife who gets ~poundcake for 10 and 10
cents a pound may understand how the
baker can make it SO much more cheap
" than she can.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
WIFE OF J. HAM LEWIS is
SHORT Sc, 500 IN JEWELRY

London, Feb. 2s.-Mrs. James Ham
ilton Lewis, of Chicago, was robbed of
jewelry worth $500 while on the
steamship Mauretania on the voyage
from New York recently. She has fled
information of the theft with The off,
Gals of the Cunard line at LIVERPOOL.
and an investigation is being made BY
them.
Mrs. Lewis will be Joined in Paris by
her husband, and they then will hep;n
. new attempt to capture the thief.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
zIEGFELD HELD IN BAIL

New York, Feb. 27.-Florenz zieg-
field, husband Of Anna Z%iegfeld, arrest
ed in company with Emily Leslie, dra-
matte editor of a Chicago newspaper.
on a charge of speeding up Seventh
avenue in an automobile, between one
Hundred and Seventeeth and One Hun
dred and Nineteenth streets, waved
examination in the Harlem police court
and gave bail in 500.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
FRED ~GRIESHElMER'S
WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE

New York, Feb. 25.-Miss Gertrude
Griesheimer, one of the pretty show
girls who have graced the New York
stage these many years, is suing her
husband, Fred Griesheimer, for sep
a%ration, alleging cruel treatment and
abandonment. Mr.. Griesheimer is a son
of a Chicago millionaire clothing mer-
chant. Mr. ~Griesheimer lives at the
in West Forty-ffth ct. He is well
known along Broadway.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
THE ~sUFFRAGETTEs ARE
NOT AT ALL SCARED

London. March 2.-The women sur
sfragists are losing no opportunity to
force this morning outside 81 Holloway
jail to welcome three of their number
who had Just completed one months
Imprisonment for trying to interview
Premier AsQuith. In spite OF the fact
that o was falling they formed ia
procession and marched to Hollsborn,
where g breakfast OF welcome wa
given for the martyrs"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
COOPERATIVE CREAMERY
For BELIE EOURCHE

Belle Fourche, S. D., Feb. ga CO.
operative will open here
about April i. The organization has.
Just been completed with a capital of
$4,000. A big ice house has been built
and filled and the creamery building is
nearly ready. The machinery will be
ordered ut once. f. A. Baldwin, of
Litchfield, S. d, president Of the South
Dakota Dairymen's association, has
been hired for u year as manager and
butternaker.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04

That caste has a great power in mod
ern India is shown by an incident
which occurred during the recent trial
of dynamite bomb c~onspirators in CAL
cutta. An Indian inspector OF police
happened to stumble against one Of the
prisoners, a Brahman, as he was pass
Ing to his place IN court. Instantly the
officer bent down. and, taking the dust
from the Brahman's feet, humbly
begged his pardon. And the prisoner,
who resented the accidental contact.
his due,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
HEN LAYS IN NEST
In a cMnAM Mk

Miller, S. D., Feb. 27.-As boys We're
sliding down a huge snowbank on the
Briggs & Roberts ranch west of town
they sank into the drift as though
falling into a cave. In the bottom of
the drift were some hens hat had been
covered up by the snow. Strange to
say, the chickens were doing well
enough in their s~nowbound quarters,
n of the lens having gone right on
laying eggs while thus buried.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-04
SUES COMPANY BECAUSE
ne Do I

Yankton, S. D., Feb. &c. f. Bill
ings, representing an eastern jewelry
firm, has engaged local attorneys to
bring a damage suit against the Mil
Waukee railroad for assault upon him
while blockaded on a train near Scot
land. He claims that he was aroused
from sleep by a couple of conductors
and assaulted. 1t is reported that prac-
teal jokers sent the conductors after
him on the charge that he was disturb
ing the people on the train.