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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
IRIS FREE
Jury Acquits Her Of Numbering Her
Husband.

Mrs. Georgia Allyn Sampson. who
has been on trial at Lyons, N. Y, since
Monday on the charge that h had
shot and killed her husband, Harry
Sampson, was acquitted shortly after
10 o'clock Friday night.
Mrs. Sampson was trembling when
the jury announced It's verdict, but
she recovered her composure and
smilingly received the embraces Of her
father and other relatives and the
CONGRATULATIONS Of her friends. h
thanked and shook hands with the
Jurors. her lawyers and the reporters.
for publication.
Mr.. Gilbert. though a cousin Of Mrs.
Sampson, by marriage. prosecuted the
case vigorously but said he was salts
led with the verdict. 90
The testimony Of the defense Fri
day was brief and at $50 o'clock
Judge Rich completed his charge to
the jury. and an hour later the jurors
retired to deliberate. At 10 o'clock
they reported having reached an
agreement, went to their places in
Court, anu Ill dLS"SI I thS
formal question their foreman answer
ed stoutly, Not guilty"
Mrs. Sampson is to all appearances
on the verge Of a breakdown from the
strain to which she mas been subjected
since the beginning on Monday of her
trial for the murder of her husband.
She did not sleep at an Thursday
night and Friday morning in turn de-
manded and pleaded with her attor-
neys for the privilege OF going on the
stand and explaining everything. Her
advisers and friends had difficulty In
calming her. When she entered the
court room she was still pale and bag
gard and her attorneys feared she
might collapse.
The jury commenced celebrating at
1880 o'clock and Ions before that hour
the court room, galleries and corridors
were thronged with people, women
predominating, awaiting the verdict.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
WAGAR IS INDICTED.
Former Dallas Commissioners ArraiSh-
ed OH Thirteen Counts.

The United states grand jury, now
in session at Sioux Falls, mas re-
turned a number of additional lnolct-
ments. Among the indictments re-
turned was one against Arson Wagar'
formerly United States Commissioners d
Dallas, Gregory county, who was re
moved from office last fall by Juuse
Garland for failure to turn over 10 the
United States land office at Mltcheli
trust funds which had been placed IN
his hands by homesteaders in the
Rosebud country with which to make
navments on the purchase price Oh
their lands.
Following the return OF the au-
ditional indictments by the grand jury
United states Attorney Wagner moVeo
the a~rraingment of "agar Oh al ~
dictment containing thirteen COUNTS
charging him with embezzlement
Judge Frank r. Aikens appeared ior
the defendant and asked for addltlonai
time in which to enter a plea 10 me
Indictment. and this was sranteh ny
Judge Garland.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
OTHERS HURT IN DISASTROUS
LENox, MASS, FIRE.
-Four Business Blocks and Two
Dwellings Destroyed in Blaze Which
Starts Among Oils and Dynamite In
clifford Block-Terriac Explosion.

Six persons lost their lives, three
others yer badly burned and a prop
erty loss Of between 100000 and
100000 was caused by the fire which
started in the heart of the business
section OF Lenox, Mass. early Sun
day. Four business blocks and two
dwellings and two other structures
were destroyed in a section bounded
by Franklin, Main. Housatonic and
Church streets
The IRE Is believed to have started
from spontaneous combustion.
The dead: Edward c.. ventres.
electrician: Mrs. Edward c. ventres;
Miss Leslie ventres, aged ~ years;
Miss Alice French, bookkeeper; Miss
Isabel Cook, bookkeeper; Miss Mary
Sparks, school teacher, Miss Cath
crime Root and her two sons, George
and Arthur. were severely burned.
A fortunate SHIFT OF the wind saved
the public library and the fashionable
Curtis hotel. In. tho hotel there was
several Easter parties from New York
and Boston. The loss of life occurred
In the Clifford building. where the
eUsako oSeTScus Auu TcSuiteu primarily
from . series Of explosions among the
curpentine, paints, oils and dynamite
stored in the cellar.
The death OF Miss French was one
OF h pttiful tragedies OF the fire.
while the blaze In the clifford block
was q Its height a woman was seen.
to climb out OF a flame filed room
the veranda on the second story
with her night clothing and her hair
ablase. sstagsering to the railing the
wofaanAleaped 70 the sidewalk beneath
handing IN ~ heap within five or six
or the blazing walls. Some Of the
la0Frfhed ~aonlookers attempted to drag
her out, but the Intense heat drove
them back. and not until the flames
had practically died out was the body
recovered.
While none OF the beautiful summer
that have made this Berk-
shire town famous the country over
threatened. many prominent New
York and Boston society people were
- the Curtis hotel. which was at one
time In danger.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
INTERVENTION THOUGHT OF
Zclaya's Course Is Annoying to State
Department.

Nicaraguan mutilation Of official
dispatches to this government ana con-
tinued grave conditions in Central
America are under the earnest consid-
Grafton Of the Washington govern
ment.. Investigations have convinced
the officials at Washington that cipher
dispatches passing between John n.
Gregory. the American charge at Man.
aqua, Nicaragua, and the state depart
ment at Washington were purposely
mutllated during N~icaragua's unusual
military activity.
It would not be surprising in view
of the unsatisfactory conditions which
prevail if the American government
should at any time AXE active steps
to end the existing state of affairs IN
America and notify Nicaragua
that h]enceforth peace must prevail at
all hazards. Moral suasion with Mic
aragua has failed to accomplish the
object sought, that of impressing her
with the desire. both Of the United
States and Mexico, that there be a
cessation Of conditions which keep
other Central American republics con-
stantly guessing as to what may hap
pen and that tend to the i~mprovish-
ment of the people because of their
fears Of the future. Intervention In
Central American affairs has been
talked of unofricially repeatedly.
American war vessels are still re-
tanned in Central American waters and
Thursday the cruiser North akot
sailed from Magdalcna bay for ANA
bala, Honduras. into the Gulf Of Fon-
SEGA, In which some Of the naval &C
tivity maintained by Nicaragua has
manifested itself.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
Project TO COST $1,000, 900.
Big Undertaking Commenced pS 'N'
Homcstake Mining Company.

HOmcstake Mining Company.
The Homestake Mining oi
| Lead. has just commenced ano'ilei
m undertaking thai VIII ~
| yolve the expenditure of over Sl,oVo'-
| 600 and will require at least Il Se"'
| and a half under propitious clrcuhl-
stances to complete.
The new undertaking, on when me
actual constructive work will start in
thirty days if the weather proves sea
sonable. is the building of an electric
power plant on Speartish creek, at d
point about seven miles from mere
This plant will have a maximum ca
pacity of 1000 horsepower, which IS
to be utilized in the big mills of the
company in this city. in the mines and
at any other point where it may De
needed. The estimates that II
will require the services of 2Oo men
in the carrying out of this project
One Of the principal parts Will be
the building of an intake some I'VE
miles below the plant, connected py a
conduit, the result being to leave the
creek. bed dry for that distance: For
several months past the legal depart
rnent Of the company has h'ch en-
gagged in securing the rights ana nee
essary steps in the project, while men
have been stationed all winter on the
creek securing data as to the flow ana
movement of the stream,
ture, etc. The conduit will consist OF
eight tunnels varying from 2,ooo L"
1000 feet in length.
BY carrying the water the six miles
to the plant, through pressure pipes,
the secures a water fall OF
700 feet and a minimum loss in trans
mission.
The company already has a 800
horsepower electric plant at EnSle-
wood, which will be continued in OPP
GRAFTON in addition to the new one,
which is built chiefly for the mills and
shops in Lead. The mills are now
dropping LOO stamps daily, which
require 2k horsepower to the stamp.
The mines are now furnished power
by the 1000 horsepower compressor
at the Ellison. together with the COM
pressor at the Golden Prospect and
the B. & M.
The whole work will be in direct
charge of Richard Blackstone. the
chief engineer, under the supervision
of superintendent r. j. Grier.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
SOUTH DAKOTA YEOMEN.
S. E. Wilson is Chosen President-Wa-
tcrtONvn Gets COnclave.

S. F.. Wilson is ChOscn President-Wa-
tcrtONYn Gets COnclave.
One hundred delegates, representing
500 YeOmen of South Dakota, at
tended the quadrennial state conclave
at Parker Wednesday. The city was
decorated with banners and stream
ers of welcome and good cheer.
The sessions We're altogether harmo-
nious, and the business of the session
was expeditiously transacted. Seven
delegates were elected to represent
this state at the supreme conclave,
which at Minneapolis on
June s next. The present administra-
ton, which has doubled the member
ship in four years, increasing from
$4,000 to over 100. 900 in the twenty
five states in which they operate, and
in which time the assets have in
creased from $500, 900 to over $1,000
900, was heartily Endorsed. S. E. Will
son of Hot Springs, was elected presi-
dent for a term of tour years.
Five towns We're active candidates
for the next conclave and after sever
al ballots Waterfowl was selected.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16

shop, an employee of Il contractor who
was building a railway in South Amer
lea, the manager Of ali Argentine rail-
way, a student in an English locomo-
tive building shop n engine driver
and locomotive superintendent in Rus
STA during his earlier years, he rose to
be the cars minister of public ways
and railways, a high office he held for
eleven years. To his energy and skill
is ascribed much of the success of Rus
STA in building the great T~rans-Sibe-
rian railway and in sending more than
100000 troops across the 6,677 miles
Of this line within ninety days, togeth-
ser with enormous quantities of provi-
sions and army supplies, during the
Russo-Japanese a
II am a good bit of a Yankee my
SELF" was Prince Hilkof's greeting to
the members of the Worlds Columbian
Exposition committee on transporta-
ton when meeting them in western ST.
IBERIA on their trip around the world.
Here is further proof, if you want it,"
be added with a smile, raising his
hand up to the tuft e. iron-gray beard
that grew on his chin Uncle Sam
fashion. This tuft he wore from early
manhood to old age. He was a Yankee
years he had studied closely the Won
derful development of the United
States and had striven to adopt meth
DDS in use in this country to the rail-
way problems of Russia.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16

e: 4@A}2

A clockmakers' union was recently or
ganized at San Francisco, Cal.
Work is being lone in the matter OF
unionizing the brewers in Ell Paso, Texas.
The Gas Workers. Union at Sacrament
to-, CAL. has mad al application to be-
come affiliated with the State Federation
of Labor. .Eyas" - wl .slsI4. Arr
Thu San Francisco (Cal.) .Journeymen
Stone Cutters Union has under consid-
Grafton a proposition to establish>a sick
benefit fund. r..n
A union of hard solderers of New
York has been organized. The name
adopted is the Independent International
Union of Hard Solderers.
Many pastors in Brooklyn. N. Y, rave
promised to help the grocery clerks in
their movement for a shorter workday
and Sunday closing.
A dispute has occurred in a section of
employees in the lace trade in Noting
ham, England, which. it is feared, may
lead to an extended strike.
Sixteen hundred men employed in the
collieries at Aberaman, Wales, are locked
out.
Among nut and bolt workers in Penn
sylvania the returns Of the chief factory
inspector show the fatal accident rate
during ten years to have been "a per
1000 and in miscellaneous steel and iron
work 4.3 per loo.
A cooperative c;mpany has been or
ganized by workingmen of Brooklyn, N.
Y. The name Of the company Is tbs
Brooklyn Mechanics Cooperative Com
pany, and the announced object ito start
operations for mutual benefit"
Labor leaders in Toronto, Canada, will
ask the Ontario government to establish
an eight-hour day for girls working in
factories. The latter now work twelve
hours, or seventy-two a week.
The cigar makers, by 4 referendum
vote, nave decided to levy an assessment
for the purpose of creating a fund to adj
vertise the union blue label at the Alas
ka-Yukon-Pac exposition.
Last months report of the British OPP
erative Cotton Spinners shows that the
united membership was 1919, or nearly
1900 al told. There was a gain in the
month Of zoe, and Of 1,430 since . year
ago. alaif aaei:n nj e4gf@ tat&ss
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
MARATHON 10 JANSEN.

VICl0s3ous In Amateur Event at Long
island City.
Harry Jansen. Of the Pastime Ath-
letio club, won = Marathon race At
Celtic park, Long Island City. Satur-
day. - which seventeen amateurs
compoted.
Juse before the race q riot was pre-
ripltaeed among the 5000 spectators
sMho4lhreatened harm, to Charles Haas.
Aspoclals policeman who had shot and
a-danGGrousiy injured Thomas B. DAILY.
~ 1l-ySar-oId boy. who tried to smug-
gie Ms way into the grounds by climb.
iMg the fence. a
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
NO STRIKE OF MINERS.
Conference Ends In a Deadlock, But
Old Scale VIII Be Paid.

After conferences ~tendi since
Wednesday,, the anthracite coa' opcf-
ators and the officials of the United
Mine Workers of America, represent
ing the miners, at which the questloh
of a wage agreement was discussed
the operators Friday rejected n
modified demands of the miners pre-
sented Thursday and the conference
adjourned d~eadlocked.
There will be no strike i~naugurated
by the mine workers, however, ana
the only danger Of q suspension or
mining in the near future, according
to the mine workers officials, arise
from the possibility of the refusal OF
the operators to permit the miners TO
work without an agreement.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
FARMERS FRIGHTFUL. INJURY.
Caught Between a Barn Door and Top
of Wagon Barge.

Harry Hopkins. a farm hand al
Brentford, met with a painful accident
which may result fatally. He was
hauling feed for his employer in a
large barge. loaded on a wagon.
Reaching the barn, he inquired. If
there was room for the barge to enter
the doorway, and was answered In the
affirmative. his informant not think
ing Hopkins intended staying on the
load. Hopkins whipped up his horses
and they entered the barn on the
jump, and he was caught between the
top Of the door and the barge n
dragged through, the end Of the barge
breaking out slightly. The be-
tween the door and the barge was less
and two inches, and Hopkins was hor-
ribly mangled. No bones were broken.
and there is a fighting chance for his
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
6 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE NEWS g
YEAR FOR HORSE STEALING.
Gregory County Man * TO SIOUX
Falls Prison.

NtS
The latest prisoner to be lodgeu IA
the Sioux Falls penitentiary Is ffahh
Ruffing, the young son of hishly re-
spected residents of Gregory county
who a few days ago appeared peiore
Judge E.. G.. Smith Of the First 1udiclai
circuit and entered a plea or sullty
to the charge of grand larceny, anu
who was sentenced to a term or n
year in the penitentiary at nara TABOR.
Rulings crime was ommltte las'
February. and consisted of the inert
of a team Of horses from a FARMER
named McIntire. who lives near the
homestead of his father. Ruling TOOK
the stolen horses to Newport, Neo,
where he traded one of them OF ana
for the care of the otheT
which soon afterward was SOLD 10 a
horse buyer and shipped to Iowa. NC
Intire traced both horses and hnally
recovered them after much trouble
and expense.
Young Ruffing. after remaining at
Newport and vicinity for a time. re-
turned to his fathers home. where he
was located and arrested by the
authorities Of Gregory county.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
Discharges in Bankruptcy.

Judge Garland, of the United States
court in Sioux Falls, has granted dis
charges from bankruptcy in the cases
of the following South Dakota people
and firms: Isaac A. Allen. Faulkton;
August c. Stoxey, Bowdle; Judson M.
Deveny, Watertown; rance O., Bran,
non. Clark; John Booth, ForestviIle;
Morgan Keith and Hazen Keith, as
individuals and as co-partners, Aber-
deem; Herman D. S~eastrand, Cotton;
Ira Vaughn Cults. Ethan; George Gro
ford Bray, Sioux Falls. or
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
WOOL OUTLOOK GOOD.
State Growers See Prospects of Co
I)ricnS This SnIino

State Growers See Prospects of Good
Prices This Spring.
Wool growers in the western part
of the state are enthusiastic over the
outlook this spring. Last year the
best price they could get was about
IS cents, but this spring they are be-
ing offered in advance to about 23
cents before shearing time, and Will
some are contracting at that price,
most of the wool men are holding on
with the expectation that they will
get 25 or better by the time the buy
ers for different firms get upon the
ground. Shearing is reported to have
commenced in the extreme western
part of the state.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
EDUCATORS AT ABERDEEN.
Annual Session We'll Attended
and Interesting.

The sixth annual session OF 'he
Northern South Dakota Educa'lolid
association convened in Aberdeen frl-
dav for a two days session. FRIDAY
Afternoon was taken up with welcoming
the visitors and in business meetlhss'
At s o'clock that evening, froi'
Perisho, of the University OF SCUM
Dakota delivered an address on the
subject of 1.-THE Conservation OF Ma
tural Resources" He contended tha'
the most important resource OF the
nation is it's boys and girls. and urgeu
a larger measure Of "attentlon peihs
given the rising generation, ana It's
needs-moral, educational ana PhyS'-
cal.
The nrosram was concluded Satur-
a,y afternoon with a number OF
papers on professional sub)ects ny
members of the association, followed
by the election of officers.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
WARRANTS TO BE CALLED.

Legislative Expenses Will Be Cleared
Up by This Action.
The call for general fund warrants
for the 14th of this month clears .ev-
erything up to the 10th of March,
meaning that it will take in all the
legislative expense warrants and cut
off interest from that date on a num-
Der of warrants which were taken at
a premium during the session. The
call will be for a little more than
5000, 900. and will call all warrants up
to register No. 1879. This action will
give some of the banks which were
paying a premium a very small return
on their investment for the short time
since they secured the warrants.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
DIVORCE COLONY HIT.
Nevada Judge Rules Both Parties
Must BE Residents. .....

>etuAu OuuSC NuASo DotA
Must Be Residents. .s...
The divorce colony at Reno. New, is
much disturbed over q ruling by JUS
tice Orr Thursday that both parties to
a divorce action must be bona d
residents. The Sothern divorce suit
is said to be almost identical with the
case in question.
The decision was given in the case
OF Rowland VS.. Rowland. in which the
wife came to Reno and caused papers
to be served on her husband during
a brief business visit.
The court held such action to be
illegal. He declared the law did not
throw the courts of Nevada open to
the world. so that people might come
here, stay a day or so. the plaintiff
start the action. the defendant come in
and be served and thus confer jurisdic-
ton on the court.
There are at least fifty men and
women in Reno to get divorces to
whom the decision will apply.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
BAGGAGEMAN BADLY HURT.

Falls While at Work and Sustafns
Conclusion of Brain.
A baggageman' named Sanderson,
employed on&a Northwestern train,
met with a peculiar accident at Aber-
deem Saturday afternoon. Sanderson
was helping to load a casket contain
ing a corpse on the train when a
handle came off the casket, causing 1t
to fall on Sanderson. He was pushed
backward to the ground, striking
heavily on the back of h head and
sustaining a conclusion Of the brain.
He was placed On the train and taken
to Huron for treatment.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
OIL ExPLoDEs IN A STILL.
Two Men Lose Lives at Point Rich
mond, California.

Two men were burned to death and
three others seriously injured, IA
tally, as the result Of an explosion In
enc oe the Gil stills OF tbs Standard
OIL company at Point Richmond. Cal,
Friday.
The dead are: John Granger, 70
years old; Charles Lawrence, chief
clerk, 80 years old, of Santa Rosa.
The fire which scattered over eight
acres Of territory, was fought for over
an hour by 1,500 men, and the damage
Will reach $4,000.
The still which exploded had a ca
pacity of 10000 barrels, n as near
as can be learned the bottom fell out
OF 1t. causing an explosion, which
ignited the oil n scattered 1t over
eight acres. burning everything which
1t touched.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
RISON SCORES AGAIN.
commissioners Must Hold Meeting III
Now County Seat Town.

New County Seat Town.
bison. the new county seat OF fer-
kins county, won virtually a victory
over it's rival, Lennon, in the circuit
court at Belle Fourche when Judge
Rice in passing on the contest pro-
ceedings, declared that the county
commissioners of the new county must
hold a meeting at Bison to ratlfy the
proceedings of the meeting at Lem
mon Two of the commissioners are
from Lennon and they refuse to meet
at Bison on the grounds that no suit
able building had been prepared.
Judge Rice held that while he would
not order them to hold future meet
ings regularly at Bison, he believed
that they should and that Bison was
providing ample quarters for the
meetings..
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
Democratic Monthly.

Norman E. Mack, chairman of the
national democratic committee, an
nounced Friday hat he had completed
arrangements for h publication Of
a monthly magazine to be known as
the National Monthly. and devoted to
the interests of the democratic party
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
SPANKING is PERMISSIBLE.
Detroit Father Deals Out Old FASH
Toned Kind and Is Upheld.

In the police court at Detroit. Mich
Thursday Justice Jegeries upheld
the right of a father to ad-
minister the old fashioned spanking
to his 17-year-old daughter, even if
her dignity suffered. sHss
father arrested for disturbing the
peace after a spanking. Granzan told
the judge that the performances was
part Of an effort to keep his daughter
from cheap theatres. and the
Justice decided that spanking young
ladies of II was permissible in moder-
ration
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
Coal Mine Explodes.

BY an explosion in a mine owned by
the Berwin-white coal company. near
windber, Pa, Friday night, seven men
were killed and four are still entombed
and probably dead. h setting of of
a dynamite blast caused the explo sion.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
Hearing Is Put or.

The hearing Of the Injunction suit
against the eighteen Missouri railroads
to prevent the threatened increase of
passenger rates, which was filed at
st. Louis by Circuit Attorney Jones at
the request of Gov. Hadley, has been
deferred for several days. $50
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
Fire Loss $4,000.

The manufacturing plant of the
Brown. Carson. Dillman company to-
gether with two churches n six
dwellings were burned in a fire at
Franklin, o.. Friday. which caused a
total loss OF $4,000.