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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-16

The attention of our lady readers
is called to the big ad we are car
rying this week offering 100 high
grade visiting cards in Near En-
CRAVING Tiffany text, latest shape,
best workmanship, for SOC. The
regular price of these cards is 81,
but we are offering them for one
week only at soc. With each order
received we will accept FREE
one three line ad for our Sale and
Exchange column for one insertion.
Every lady has around the house
or up in the attic or down in the
basement some articles she would
be glad to sell if she could find a
purchaser. There are many in our
city looking for just such things,
provided they can be had at bar
gain. Our proposal is to bring
these two classes together, and es-
tablish kind of bureau of ex-
change: which we will call our For
Sale or Exchange department. Re-
member, ladies, so visiting cards
worth 81, for only SOC, and a free
ad in the sale or exchange column.
This offer is made for one week
only. For further particulars see
the big ad. Bring your orders in
early. All orders taken care of in
order received. All orders will be
filled at this price that are re-
sceived within the time specified.
Out of town ladies are included
in this great offer, and all letters
mailed within the time specified
will come in under the offer. Now,
get busy. Be sure and bring the
coupon.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-16
WHEN SOLDIERS STRIKE

1t is said that the kaiser worried the spread
in the German The iron discipline formerly prevailing
his said to be under the increasing
the soldiers heard
This is astonishing The model of the soldier used
yet from purely military view ponthe who do
think; obey!''
Socialism portent of world
right economic questions
solutely and eternay right
Socialism does not believe
the armies and wars of this
Neither do of us who believe in
Democracy is the real antidoe
intelligent social refomerstha fought
tens dynasies and greed, and not for the people
When the Russian armies and those
death struggle the Manchurian plains tearing
and splitting each others blood the Socialists
changed messages OF brotherhood and good will.
When the other day the British parliament
hstag both considering for the kes
Dreadnaughts for struggle which Brtons and
Germans to send each other the bottom
lists in the bodies exchanged
iversal disarmament.
These reormers what all
real for fight between
We have had strikes of all occupations; truth
fully dawns the world shall have the
of all-the strike of soldiers.
Good for the Socialists of Germany Japan and
They have shown the wise attitude
have shown the real of the kaers
they becoming intelligent machines murder
is afraid of the universal strike of the soey the civilized
when will refuse pull trigger against
other quarres which the
have interest in the event of the struggle
shall be enabled aney up relating
living, rather than dying.
st. Paul Daily News
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-16
GET MORE MONEY FOR WOOL
South Dakota Sheep Raisers Find
More Favorable Market

More Favorable Market.
Wool growers around Pierre are en-
thusiastic over the outlook this spring.
Last year about the best price they
could get was about IS cents, but this
spring they are being offered an adj
vance price of about 20 cents before
shearing time and, while some are
contracting at that price, most of the
wool men are holding out with the
expectation that they will get 25 cents
or better by the time the buyers for
Shearing is reported to have com
menced in the extreme western part
of the state, but nothing in that line
will be attempted around Pierre until
the weather is more settled
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-16
TRACT SOWED WITH PINE SEED
Reforestation Scheme Tried on 500
Acres in Black Hills.

Reforestation Scheme Tried on SOC
l.. Acres in Black Hills.
An important experiment is being
carried or by the government in the
Black Hills forest reserve which may
point the way to reforestation For
ester Thompson and crew of men
are now at Redfern to SOW pine seeds.
They will plant about 500 acres this
season at Redfern, Dumont and Spear
fish. They select burned districts for
the experiment, as the soil is more
loose and mellow and the seeds are
expected to terminate quickly The
sowing is done broadcast among
stumps and standing timber and wher-
ever there is an open tract of ground
It is narrowed after the seeding.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-16
Bcasket Fails on Baaaaesn,an.

A baggageEsan named Sanderson,
running on a Northwestern train, met
with q peculiar accident DIT Aberdeen.
sSanderson was helping to load d
scasket containing corpse wheI 4
handle came on the box, causing tito
fall upon him, He was pushed back
ward to the ground, striking heavily
on the back of the head and sustain.
Ing d coi,cussion of the brain.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-16
LAND LOTTERY MAN FINED
Pleads Guilty to Using the Mails Con
trary to Law.

T'Sdus Su'ity 10 using the maiiS Con
trary to Law.
An attempt on the part Of Eugene
G. Barnum, a prominent resident OF
Dallas, to run a lottery in opposition
to the government lottery for the dis.
posal of government lands in Trip
county resulted disastrously to Bar.
mum.
Barnum appeared before Judge Car
land of the United States court at
Sioux Falls and entered a plea f.of
guilty to an indictment charging him
with having used the mails in further
ance Of lottery scheme In connec-
ton with the disposal of government
lands in Trip county. Judge Garland
imposed a fine of $500, which was
paid -
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-16
Land for Indian Women.

Representative Burke has intro,
duced a bill authorizing the secretary
OF the interior to allot $40 acres Of
land to every woman belonging to the
Grow, Greek and Lower Brule tribes
of Indians in South Dakota now living
and who was not entitled to an allot-
ment under the law BIZ which alIot-
ments we're previously made In the
Sioux Indian reservation In Dakota.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-16
Railroad Time Tables

Re. M. g. ST. l.. EAST
IS Twin Cities, Chi. & q. ex Sun 7:00am
10 Twin Cities, Chicago q q. daily ii :3Opm
So Way freight Condo, ex Sun. ar. 3:30pm
M. g. ST. L. WEST
i8 Aberdeen. Leola, LeBenu, daily 5:25am
Il :Matertown passenger, arr. 80. 7:Wpm
81 Way freight Condo, ex Sum-. 5 Roam
20 Freight from Morton, ex Sun, ar 7:30pm
ROCK ISLAND EAST
ais Chicago & East, ex Sun. j. 10 loan
Sc Way freight, ex Sun. ......... 7:1Oam
ROCK ISLAND WEST
AZ Watertown pass. ex Sun, ar. s:o5pm
50 Way freight, ex Sun, ar. 6:OOpm
80. AS Pullman from Ellsworth.
GREAT NORTHERN EAST
1856 Benson 4 St. Paul, ex SIM. IL. s:5Oam;
$50 Way frt. to Benson ex Sun IL :30ami
Sa..s Way frt. to Huron, ex Sun, ar. 10:10am
GREAT NORTHERN WEST
I l$s I Huron pass ex Sun. arr, 7:o5pm
W W. Wy Wy f ~, IRON henson, arr :3opm
rr MaS tn Ma t. H WsG r., s4sam
daily except Sunday.
~ " w. W. GfSS
III Way frt. via Candy to Tracy,
daily ex Sun. =. 1. !. !. /. !. 4. Z :COam
500 Chi. & east, via Candy and Tracy,
sleeper from, Mnnkat0 daily l0:l5am
3 Sleeper to twin cities via 81
Brookings, daily ~. ~. -. a.0d,pm
IS Way frt to Brookings, ex Sun 8 :20pni
q N. w. WEST
q Redaetd & West, Huron and
West, daily =. . . 81 .2s,am
So Redfieid. Aberdeen, Oaks and ga
| Gettysburg ~. {. I. 2. 4 :4anm
Y way 1T. g Redaeid, e Sun. .1o :ospm
ti3 Frt from Tracy via Candy, ~.
Tues, Thus, Sat-, ar. . 3:2ts,nl
SOUTH DAKOTA CENTRAL
Sioux Falls pass, ex SUM-, w.. 6.O5a N
| Arrive at Sioux Falls 1920.
si22 Sioux Falls pass, Sun only IL. Il .tt,a II
Arrive Sioux Falls 300 n M 49,
AZ Way frt., ex Sun. &. 5i q .{,D,7 M
tyatertown pass. ex Sum-, arr. /, s CONN
Leave Sioux Falls 3:45, ri Y e9s
Matertown piss. Sun only 2 q 4, ann,
Way fri, ex Sun, ar, Il. X /, 5s,,s
Leave Sioux Falls 3 b. m. .s 81,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-16

SCHOOL GARDENS

Down in the south q Psso
pupils grades results flower culture The
lives Tie love o flowers and the kuow
e rs a fss such upon ts
s heee Perhaps this
plan could BE- carried out Waerown 1t would splendid
q thing for the boys and girls of our schools.
People who ak about the millennium usually REGARDED
clean ear tn doorway Of his
1wa s and not about the would
s asr rid e big vices and quite those
fai1y
E m a as s. a ass The thing that
people q think The millennium would be
s y IS way s.s does line np with
called business viii have to before the millennium starts to
What the matter with country They're AZ
editors 4 any paper 81 we're Keep
Up too.
s " na5
good citizens ii the work that lies before them
Iat s. Central sounds good good good
&c sss sssh fs,'n ~ sad g
sss' s' i'ss
= " 81 s is I s ss \ az ss sss ''
Sometimes thing think Il coming headed for the
other fellow.
ordsr BOOST
that the reet Y " ssil.
Il ss Se~4SAx
thing vsll.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-16
DOZEN CLAIMS DEVASTATED
Disastrous Prairie Fire Sweeps coun.
try Southwest OF Pierre.

~ 853E3 try southwest OF Pierre.
A prairie fire which burned over a
strip Of country southwest of Pierre
was driven by a heavy wind and de-
stroyed the buildings on ten or a
dozen claims before 1t was stopped
The FIRE started from a building which
caught from a stoyepipe and was al
most Impossible to get under control
on account OF the gale.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-16
An ITALIAN IS bRUTALLY KILLED
.Crime Bears Mark Of Black Hand
Depredahon.
Depred alton,

Dallas. Aug. 16.-An Italian mur.
der, suggesting the possibtlitv of =
! Malta crime is puzzling the city and
county peace Officers of Dallas. The
! TRACED, was enacted in an Italian
colony conhacted with the large &C.
ment works near 'WasA Dallas late
Friday night. With f0nr-~. stab
wounds. penetrating the region of
the heart the dead bodv of Tony
Fosro was discovered At an early
hour Saturday morning on the floor
.of the old dryer in the old cement
plant by Night Foreman William
Leonard and a workman named G..
G. Eddy They AT once notified the
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-16
GIRL IDENTIFIES HER ASSA|LAhT
Miss Pratt Of Waco Picks Out Negro
Who Committed Crime.

Waco, Aug. l6.-Miss Ida Pratt,
the young lady who was criminally
assaulted Sunday morning, Aug l.,
on the Jim Hay farm, about half
way between MeGregor and Moody,
where she resided with her parents,
has positively identified Lockett
Randall as the man who committed
the crime. Lockett and Fred Ran
dali and Frank Smith We're arrested
in the neighborhood almost imme-
diately following the assault by Dep
uty Sheriff John Walton of this city,
Lockett and Fred are brothers.
All three negroes were brought
here Saturday from Hillsboro, where
they have been since August ,, be-
ing removed to the Jail there to pro-
tect them from any attempt that
might be made by "A mob to lynch
| them, as great Indignation was eX-
ipressed against the negroes in the
/ vicinity Nnele the SlFl llNeN " llh
iher parents.
The girl was accompanied to this
city by her father and mother, and
the three negroes. together with two
others, selected from among the pris-
ouers in the jail We're placed be
fore her Assistant County Attor'
ney Alva Bryan was in the room
while the Identification process was
in progress, and after scrutinizine
the negroes for about two minutes
Miss Pratt left the room and pointed
out LOckett Randall as the man who
had committed the assault.
Several interrogatories We're pro
pounded by the officers, and the
girl said Randall's face had beeI
impressed on her memory ever sine,
the heinous Outrage Satisfied a.
TO her statement, Fred Randall
brother of the accused. and Franl
Smith have been released by the of
ficers. Lockett Randall was takei
out of town last night and he /
believed TO be in jail AT either Hills
boro or Marlin.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-16
WOMAN'S JUMP FATAL.
Springs From Runaway and Is In
stantIy Killed at Mansfield.

Mansfield Tex, Aug. 16-Mrs. A.
l.. McElvany was instantly killai
Saturday afternoon about 3 o clock
by jumping from a carriage which
her husband was driving. The mules
became frightened and she jumped
to the road and the fall killed her.
The team vas stopped without dam
age to the carriage or any of the
other occupants.
Mr. McElvany is well known
farmer living six miles south OF
Mansfield He has two brothers liy-
ing IN town. Mrs. McElvany was
the mother of eight children, and
the accident has cast a gloom over
the community
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-16
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
Paris Negro Will BE Hanged Oct
for Killing Constable.

Paris, Tex, Aug lG.-Will Me
mtosh, negro. was Saturday SEN
fenced by Judge Benton to be hanged
Friday, October Last February
Mcintosh shot and killed Deputy
Constable Bob Draper. while the lat
ter was assisting Constable Mat
thews in an attempt to arrest Me
Intosh. The negro made a getaway
and was caught few days later a
Wister. Okla, brought back here
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-16
CHINATOWN IS
STIRRED AGAIN
Most Beautiful Chinese Woman
in America Is Murdered.
KNIFE WOUNDS IN NECK
Remembering the Elsie SigeI Case
They Get Out in Hurry on
Cry Of Murder.-Siqht-
seers Scatter Fast

4 New York Aug. 16.-Chinatown
boiled over again early yesterday
morning over the murder OF the
most beautiful Chinese woman in
New York, Bow Kim, u years old.
1t wos about clock yesterday
morning, Just as the usual Saturday
night revelry was quieting down,
that Len Shin dashed out of a ten
ement house at No. II Mott street
srying;
My woman been murdered. -
The street, filled with lettering
Chinamen and parties OF American
sight seers, all OF whom quickly re-
called the sensational murder OF Ell
sic Sigel, the missionary girl, were
thrown into excitement. A police
man and detective hurried into
the house after Len Shin through
dark Railways to q rear room on
the second floor. The door was
locked and the officers were about
to break in when Len pushed them
aside and unlocked it himself. In
bedroom the murdered woman lay
on the floor, stabbed in hale dozen
ringer marks, indicating (. stru sgle
with her assailant and beside her
lay bloody hunting knife.
1t was eviden, that the women
had been dead for two or three
hours On the stairs were found
tracks of blood and also on door
leading TO the store of Yuen Chin d
Co., occupying the ground floor.
Three Cinnamon there were arrested
although they denied any knowledge
of the murder. Six American Wo-
men, who declared themselves 10 be
the wives of Cinnamon, were found
in the house and were arrested, bat
none would admit any knowledge ol
Bow kim's death. In the muir
dered woman's room were found
many business letters in Chinese, bu
none gave a clew Len declared d'
had no idea who killed his wife IN
less "maybe Sin Kin kill her. Sir
Kin say she owe him money and hi
try to get it.
Sin, too, once had been in low
with Bow Kim, ho said. AS to Sin
whereabouts he knew nothing.
Lens account Of himself was tia
: he had spent the early evening unu
7 O'Clock with his wife and then 6'
had gone to No % Mott street n
returned at 2 O'Clock and found IN
body on the floor. On touching
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-16
Bennington Battle.

Bennington, Vt. Aug. IA mod
est celebration marked the f32pd
anniversary of the battle of Ben
nington today The day is a legal
holiday in Vermont 1t commem-
orates the victory OF General Stark
over detachment of Burgoyne's $
army that attempted to capture the
military stores. kept. at Bennington
for the use of the northern depart
ment of the continental army
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-16
A FATAL ERROR
TRAINS CRASH
Head-On Collision in Broad Day
HIGHT on Denver & Rio Crande.
'ELEVEN LIVES ARE LOST
Distracted by Wreck. Force Has to
Be Useed to Restrain the Man
Who Made E.rror-Many
Passengers Hurt

Colorado Springs, Colo, Aug. 10
Eleven persons are dead and others
| are expected to die: between forty
and fifty are injured; three engines
| are in the ditch: two baggage cars,
| including the contents, are smashed
ito kindling wood. and several pas
/ senger coaches are badly damaged,
! as the result of head-on collision
| between eastbound passenger train
! No and westbound passenger
train No. / on the Denver and Rio
Grande. near Hustled, thirteen miles
north of this city, at 1o;35 a. N,
Saturday.
The wreck was due to either a
misunderstanding of orders by the
driver of the first engine of north
bound train No. 8, or to his having
mistaken an engine standing on the
siding at Hustled for the train he
! was to pass at that point, and which
he later crashed into.
| AS No. drew into Hustled at
about forty miles an hour the crew
saw light engine standing on the
switch north of the station, MistaE-
! ing the engine for the second sec
tion of No. |, the crew did not stop
| and went through the STATION as
| fast as the two engines could draw
! the thirteen heavily laden coaches.
iAs soon as he train got out of the
station the engineer of the first en-
CINE of No. s saw another train COM
! ing slowly down the decline. He
slammed on the air brakes and the
emergency air brakes and then
shouted to the other members of the
crew to jump. But before they
had time to jump No, had ram
med No / so hard that all of the
engines lay in the ditch.
Fireman J. A. Gossage of train No.
S was killed as he was firing his en-
CINE and never knew what struck
him. The members of the other en-
CINE crew escaped serious injury by
jumping. The engineer of the first
ragine Of No. is reported to have
been working extra. and since the
wreck has beer acting like mad
man. He has TO be held down D!
friends
A relet train bearing physicians
surgeons ana nurses was hurried u
the res, cue :. ON this city and a wrecl
crew was sent from Pueblo. Th'
dead ana iE:uIed were brought t
this city.
Heroic woi. IN helping the IN
jured was done by party of womel
tourists unGer tie direction of II, A
Cameron of Boston and c. r. Dow
also OF Boston The members o
the party turned over to the injure'
the two Pullmans they We're occu
pying Within a few minutes afte
the collision thr two cars had bee
turnei into hospitals.
G. II. McCIeary of Dallas, Texa!
who was among the seriously injure
passengers, died in the hospital a
Colorado Springs, yesterday.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-16
That Bashful Surveyor.

County Surveyor Neal has here
tofore been officing with the county
treasurer in WaXahachie, but since
lady has been appointed county
treasurer, 1t is said that Auditor
Spalding has ousted Neal and sent
him to the sheriff's office. Spalding
is a lady's man and Neal is quite
bashful Ennis News.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-16

he had soiled his hands with blood
which in turn smeared the door and
stairway as he hurried to the street.
No formal charge has been preferred
against Len, but he is held III 5000
bond as a material witness.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-16
LITTLE CHILD KILLED.
Traction Engine in Charge Of Father
Crushed Him to Death.

Vernon, Tex, Aug. 16.-Lester,
aged 6, son of Eugene Bates, was
killed several miles south of here
Saturday, when large traction en-
gine which his father was driving
ran over him. His life was crushed
out instantly. The father failed TO
see his son.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-05-25
NOTES FROM a. AND N. COLLEGE
Kyle Preparing For Horticultural
Meeting-A. and NJ. Graduates
In Demand.

College Station, Texas. May 20
Prof +. j. Kyle of the department
OF Horticulture OF the 4. and NJ Col.
lege OF Texas. who Is secretary also
OF the Texas State Horticultural So
clety. Is making arrangements 20 Is
sue the program for the meeting
which is 10 take place during the
Farmers Congress In the latter part
Of July. There Is n vice president
in each congressional district and a
chairman Tor each committee having
charge OF various fruits. He Is writ.
ing 10 each OF these asking that they
suggest names for places on the pre-
gram. There will be a special effor
made this year 10 have fine display
o fruits. vegetables and flowers and
as the Farmers Congress comes dur.
ing the latter part Of July II will
give an opportunity for the growers
20 show the best 90 be- had.
Not only do the graduates OF the
A. and NJ. College OF Texas find pc
sitions as soon as they are Que OF
school but efforts are made 10 place
boys who are still pursuing their
studies so they can get practical ben.
Gifts In between college sessions. n
Is tho policy OF the animal husband
~ department TO get these positions
for the students. When John C.
Burns. now professor OF animal hus.
bandry was a student he worked dur
ing the summer on stock farms. and
he has been arranging 90 place some
of the boys for the coming summer
lie has letter from W. $. j. b.
and y. Durham, importers and breed.
ers ~ percherons. French coach and
Belgian horses. owners OF the Oak
land farm. Wayne. DuPage county
III. saying they will employ Byron
Gist aud X. NJ Trigg. two OF the
students. during the coming summer
This will give these boys a chance
to learn the practical work that Is
so very necessary for them. The ami
NAL husbandry department finds
places also for the boys who gradu.
ate.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-05-25
CONCRETE USED BY THE 70.
MANS.

As concrete is fast coming into use
as a building material. the follow
ing as TO its durability from the Ce'
ment Age may prove of interest to
the readers OF the Eagle:
Many well.intentioned persons. says
Cement Age. with no knowledge OF
building whatever, and apparently ig-
norant OF the simplest customs OF
concrete. have brought about failures
which have caused not only .he loss
OF property. but the loss of life also.
These failures on the practical side
have greatly increased the budget OF
the theorists. and consequently. we
learn from time TO time what takes
place In ne mind Of the man who
does his building In his imagination.
We are told that concrete Is liable
20 disintegration OF various kinds;
that water will dissolve its substance
that Il may be asphyxiated by escap-
ing gas; that Il can be weakened by
electricity. and II can succumb TO an
attack of electrolysis; that its sue
cess is entirely dependent on the
proper and permanent setting of the
cement, but nobody knows how long
cement may stay set.
To controvert the Idea that con.
crete Is new and untried material.
and that II must be left to the future
TO demonstrate its powers of endur.
ance. Cement Age shows photo
graphs OF some concrete foundations
unearthed in the Roman Forum and
on the Palatine Hin. All the concrete
Illustrated dates from about the be-
ginning Of the Christian era. and Is
therefore, but little less than two
thousand years old.
That the Romans were very famll.
lar with concrete. and gave consider
alton TO It's use. examination OF the