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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-11-25

National Gasoline and Gas associa-
ton will be held in Des Moines Jan.
IL and IL. About 200 delegates from
Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and
South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas
will be In attendance.
Joe Daniels, Ed Kelley and John
Hendershott escaped from the reform.
atory at Anamosa. They sawed the
bars in place where there was no
wall, 80 they were outside all inclos.
ures. They were in the insane depart
ment
Mayor Schunk of Dubuque, has been
appointed member of the committee
of 800 which is to present the reso-
buttons asking for waterway improve
ment to the president and congress.
Emil Heston residing east of Lib
ertyville, met with serious acct
dent while out hunting. The shotgun
he had was discharged in such way
as to tear two of his fingers off.
William WerZ, until recently mana.
ger of the Johnson County Telephone
company Is dead, aged 70. He had
lived so years in Iowa. He leaves
three sons and two daughters.
The Iowa City, Ottumwa & South
western Electric company will start
preliminary survey from Iowa City
to Ottumwa for the proposed inter
urban line.
Mrs. Alice O'Connor of Davenport,
was fatally burned when a lantern
which she was filing exploded. She
lived only few hours after the acct.
dent.
An Italian laborer working for the
c. & N. w. railroad was arrested at
Dows on complaint of farmer for
hunting without a license. and fined
SIS.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
NEW LAND DISTRICT
AND MORE LAND LOTTERIES

Washington. Dec. S.-If bills which
Senator Gamble has introduced and is
about to present to congress are passed
during the coming session. 3,5O00OC
more acres of Indian land in South Da-
kota will be thrown open to settlement
in the next two years.
One bill which Senator Gamble has
prepared provides for the opening Of
about 100000 acres, embracing the
remaining portion of the Cheyenne Eiv-
er reservation. Another embraces the
remainder of that portion of the Stand
ing Rock reservation which lies in
South Dakota, amounting to about s00,-
900 acres. Bills introduced by Mr..
Gamble in the extra session provide
for opening about 100000 acres in the
Rosebud reset stion, in Meyer county,
and 100000 acres in the Pine Ridge res
ervation, in Bennett county.
Mr.. Gamble has also presented a bill
to create = land district in South
Dakota which will include the lands to
be opened under his various bills.
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WILL
Be OFFERED ON
~. PASSENGER RATE
Will Determine Whether State
Cen Have a 212 Gent
Fare.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. 6.-The state
board of railroad commissioners and
the various railroads concerned have
agreed upon December % as the date
for the commencement of the work of
taking testimony in the passenger rate
case, by which the authorities of South
Dakota are seeking to have passenger
fares in the state reduced from three
to two ard One-half cents per mile, and
the railroads are endeavoring to have
the present three-cent rate kept in eff
feet indefinitely. The members of the
state board of railroad commissioners,
together with Attorney General Clark
and Assistant Attorney General p. w.
Dougherty, will proceed to Chicago,
where it has been decided to commence
the work of taking testimony on De-
cember 49, The testimony to be sub
United promises to be very voluminous.
and some little time is expected to be
devoted to this work.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
HILLS GIRL IS DROWNED
IN CANADIAN COUNTRY

Lead, S. d.. Dec. 6--Mystery con-
cerning the disappearance of Miss
Madge Marian Turner, formerly of this
city. has been partially cleared through
correspondence with Canadian officials
at Golden, B. c., where it is learned
that the girl met her death some time
this fall. Miss Turner was until last
August employed here as domestic
in the home of T. j. Grier, the super
intendent of the Homestake Mining
company, and was we'll thought of by
her employers. She left here in August
for a visit with relatives in Calgary,
B. G. That was the last heard of her
until her brother at that olace learned
that an unknown woman's body had
been found by train crew floating in
the Kicking Horse river near Field,
B. G. The brother took it up with Mr..
Grier and together they Investigated
and found that the dead woman was
Miss Turner. It develoned at the coro-
ner's inquest, held at Golden, that the.
woman had apparently tried to ford
the river at point where it was five.
feet deep. and lost her life in the at
tempt. Coroner Buckham. of Kootenay
county. province of British Columbia,
had the body buried at Field before
Identification was established. Miss
Turner was about 20 years Of age.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
STATE HOSPITAL OPENS
BUILDING FOR WOMEN

Yankton, s. D.. Dec. s.-vital statis-
tics for November, just compiled. show
rs births for the month, of which 16
were boys. Only S deaths were recorded
In the entire county for the 80 days.
There were 13 marriages and no df-
vorces.
The marriage has taken place here OF
Percy L. Chase. Of .-lxon, Ill. and Miss
Agnes Whiting, eldest daughter of Geo.
H. Whiting. of the Whiting nursery.
Big preparations are on here for the
formal opening of the new woman's
building just being completed at the
state hospital. The building. which is
of concrete. as are the other magnff1-
cent new buildings erected by the su-
perintendent. DIR. L. G. Mead, in the
past few years. is one OF the best build
ings ever erected anywhere in the world
of its kind, and is already attracting q
great deal of attention.
Father Placidus, the priest in charge
at the Benedictine hospital here. has
just returned from year spent in
Rome.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
REMAINS IN SCHOOL
WITH DANGEROUS WouNc

Scotland. S. D.. Dec.s G.-To remain
IN school all day with his abdomen
penetrated to such an extent that the
intestines were exposed, land never
complaining was the experience of a
little 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Chris Moser, who live on a farm south
of Scotland. The little fellow attends
a country school. He was carrying a
bottle of coffee and fell, breaking the
bottle. and piece of the Jagged glass,
unknown to his older brother, who was
with him, and to the teacher and pupils
OF the school. had penetrated through
his clothing, entered his abdomen and
exposed the intestines. Not Knowing
now bad the brave little fellow was in
1ured he was kept at school all day.
When he returned home in the evening
ms parents soon discovered the serious
ness of his injury and physician was
summoned to the scene without delay.
1t was found necessary to give the lit
tie boy an anesthetic in order to care
for and sew up the wound. He is now
recovering nicely from his unusual in
jury.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
MORALLY UNFITTED,
COURTS OPINION
CONCERNING EGAN
Justices Corson and Haney
Keep Out and Findings Are
by New Appointees.

Pierre. S. D.. Dec 7.-Justices CorsOn
and Haney took no part in the rehears-
ing OF the Egan disbarment case ow-
ing to their relations to the first hear
ing for disbarment The opinion in the
decision through which he is still pro-
hibited from appearance and standing
at court was written by Justice Whit
ing and concurred in by Justices Smith
and Mccoy. The opinion goes, not only
into the legal phases of the case, but
in fact includes practically a complete
history Of the affairs in which Mr..
to the present situation. He takes up
first the legal phases of the case, then
shows in detail the tactics of Egan in
carrying on his campaign both in the
newspapers and in other manner in his
attacks upon the integrity Of the courts
of the state, and the Judge Of such
courts. In one part of the opinion he
assumes that it is fortunte that a ma
jority of the present membership Of
the court has come to the bench since
the disbarment of the applicant, and
this majority alone acted after a re-
view OF the record in all the different
phases of the case leaving the members
who had been attacked personally by
lIgan entirely out of the present case,
thus cutting that individual off from
an opportunity to declare the present
decision part OF the Conspiracy" to
crush him continuing in their former
line of action. The newspaper articles
and clippings in which Egan attacks
Justices Haney and Corson are quoted
freely. and set up as one good reason
why such a man Is not proper per-
son to be member of the bar of the
state. His record and pleadings in the
hearing in which he was disbarred are
shown to be in large part assertion,
with nothing tangible to sustain the
allegations made by Egan in his appli-
cations and petitions
Justice Mccoy concurs in short
special opinion, in which he concurs
fully with the opinion written by JUS.
ttce Whiting, In which he holds that
his accusations against the courts Of
the state show his moral unfitness to
be an attorney of the court. while Jus
tfce Smith simply concurs In the opin-
ions expressed by4Justices Whiting and
Mccoy, after careful consideration
of all the records In the case.
The disbarment OF Egan was on the
grounds of moral unfitness" and the
justices who have all come to the
bencff since that decision was rendered.
after a careful examination of the rec
ord, and other matters connected with
the case have unanimously come to the
conclusion that the decision disbarring
Egan should stand
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
discrimination
GETS HARD BLOW
THROUGH COURTS
- Reaching Decision Affects
Pools, Cut Rates and Other
Combinations.

Pierre, S. D., Dec. 4.-The decision of
the supreme court sustaining the con-
stitutionality of the anti-discrimination
law passed by the legislature of 1907.
as affecting the Central Lumber con-
ipany. an outside corporation doing busi-
nesss in the state. will result in tho
probing of other corporations of SIM
liar character. Under the provisions ct
the law the Central Lumber company
is liable to heavy fine and can also
be barred from continuing in business
within the state. The case came, up
from Sphinx county and case of the
same nature is still pending against the
Williams Lumber company, which for
merly had it's headquarters at Webster,
and In which David Williams. formerly
of Webster, but now of Duluth. was
one of the officers.
The passage of the law was the re-
suit of investigation into the alleged
pooling of interests between corpora
tions doing lumber business, the in
vestigation tending to show that inde-
pendent companies were menaced by
rival yards where prices We're cut be-
low profitable rate in order to crush
the independent concern. While the
prices were boosted at some non-com-
petttive point to make up the loss, also
that corporation owned yards We're
grouped together and the profits shared
regardless of the cut prices made at
competitive point.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
NORTHWESTERN sw,rcHmEn.
NOT ENGAGED IN STRIKE

Huron, S. D. Dec. 7.-Offlcials of the
Chicago & Northwestern railway here,
and others in position to know, declare
there is no probability Of the switchmen
on the Chicago & Northwestern system
In South Dakota Joining the strikers
wholly without foundation. Freight and
passenger traffic continues without in
terruption, and officials of the company
anticipate no trouble. While the switch
men in the employ Of the Northwestern
system in the city are union men, they
are not likely to join the strikers. The
limited supply of wood and coal at
distributing points causes some anxiety
but dealers and railway officials are
confident that a fuel famine will not
result. The supply is light, but enough
Is on hand for all to have a limited
amount, and more is arriving daily. A
snowstorm, which set in yesterday.
caused some uneasiness lest the supply
of fuel should be exhausted. Dealers
however, declare that no serious re-
suits will follow
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
woMAN's SECOND ATTEMPT
AT SUICIDE SUCCESSFUL

Sioux Falls. S. D., Dec. s.-Mrs
Lottie Youker, aged 25, who resided
with her husband in one of the blocks
in the business district, committed sui
eide Saturday night by drinking a
quantity of carbolic acid. Her mind
is believed to have been affected, as she
had previously. made efforts to end her
own life. once by striving to throw her
self into the river, when she was pre-
vented by the police, and at another
time attempting to throw herself from
the upper story of building to the
pavement below. Soon after taking the
carbolic acid she was discovered by her
husband writhing in agony on the floor
but physicians arrived too late to save
her life,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
FEDERATION PLAN
NOT UNDERSTOOD
BY LEAD MINERS
Contention Over Time When
Benefits Are to Be Paid
Suit by Homestake.

Lead, s. D.. Dec. S.-Keen observers
who have been keeping in touch with
the situation here in the dispute be-
tween the Homestake Mining company
;alid the employees, lay much stress on
the statement of President Charles H.
Meyer of the Western Federation of
Miners, that, for the present at least.
no regular benefits will be paid the
men by the federation, but that in all
cases of immediate need the destitute
families of men would be cared for by
the local union. AS a result of this
Ioolicy there is much manifest dissatis-
faction among many of the union men
and the company Is confidently looking
Tor the union to sever its relations
with the federation. Such an intention
is denied by both union and fedora
tion officials, but the foreign element
is uneasy and many of the men openly
discuss the question on the streets
The question of benefits first arose
at the time of the lockout when some
of the union miners declare they We're
given to understand that the fedora
tion would give them weekly benefits
from the start of the lockout at the
rate OF 81 per day for single men and
$40 per week and upwards for married
men with families. So far no benefits
except in few dire cases. have been
paid, as a result of the unrest of the
foreign union men over the matter of
AASS ASASlSlt6 AIOl1CS u SpSSIdA 4ASSSAA6
of the union was called. For the first
time since the trouble started there
was a lack of enthusiasm at the meet
ing. President Meyer stated to the
men that benefits would be paid but
not Immediately as it was the rule of
the federation to issue no regular bene-
fits until the men actually needed them
and in this case most of the locked
out employees have funds enough to
get along for time. The newspapers
here took up the question and While
the papers supporting the company arc
forecasting speedy end to the dispute
the union papers maintain that bene-
fits will be paid shortly and urge al
legiance to the federation by all union
men.
The Lead City Miners union, made
defendant in the recent suit for $10,-
900 damages brought by the Homestake
company in the federal court, has re-
tained Richardson and Hawkins OF
Denver, and r. C. Hayes of Deadwood,
as attorneys to defend the suit and
their answer is expected to be filed
next week. If the Homestake vigor-
ously presses the suit. it may come to
trial next May unless 1t should be
stipulated otherwise.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
Bank Deposits lncrea.e.


Notable also in the growth of the
state are the bank deposits, which total
SlS,SS0.lOO.99, an. increase of $4,000, 900
over last year, and an increase Of $685.
oOO,000 in the 10-year period. While
iowa has $40 per capita of bank de-
POSTS, and South Dakota $158, the lat
ter state has gained I'll per cent in 10
years. While the Hawkeye state has
gained 304 per cent
The net debt OF the state is placed
at l.O81, ,342.9O, among which are $1O1,-
927.3O of capitol warrants, to be retired
When state lands are sold to Offset this
amount.
Biennlal appropriations made for the
maintenance, ,of the state and for build
t1ngs and other public purposes for the
years 1909 and 1910 amount to $685.
4ya, while government appropriations
amount to $1,44S,97S. Expenditures for
maintenance of the department Of jus-
tice, agricultural department., postal,
service and land department, bring the
governments expenditures in the state
up to $2.60O.000. ~: : s,
lmpertant Events. II
sIheS important events cited by Mr.
Robinson during the year are:
The opening of the Cheyenne and
standing Rock reservations; the build
ing OF railroad grades by the Milwaukee
from Mobridge to points on the reser-
vations; the division of Butte county
and the construction of two new coun-
ties and the creation Of Corson county
out Of u portion of Standing Rock res
erVatiOn.
The most notable gathering within
the state for the year was the Missouri
River Navigation congress at Yank-
ton.
Last but not least. the state is de-
clared by national authorities to be the
healthiest in the union, having the low
est death rate as well as scarcity Of
chronic and functional diseases.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
DELEGATES NAMED Z.
TO RIVER CONGRESS

Pierre, S. D., Dec. s.-Governor Yes
sey has appointed as delegates from
this state to the third annual session
of the Missouri river congress, which
meets at Omaha, December 14-16, the
following gentlemen: c. B. Billinghurst,
]. P. Erickson, William Borst, G. H.
Jaynes, 81. R. Horner. L. B. wadleigh,
p. F. Mcclure. A. w. Ewart c.. IA.
DeLand, j. I. Newell, ]. e. Nipple, a..
Whelon, G. A. Knapp. of Pierre; John
Hays. Edward Senechal, C. L. Millet,
James Philip, Of Fort Pierre: w. G..
Lusk. Bartlett w. Tripp, c. H. Dillon,
of Yankton; Edward Mcbride, of Le
Beau; Olof Johnson, A. N. Kingsman,
e. c. Erickson, of Elk Point; Charles
Hill George w. Snow, Turner, Of
Springfield; w. B. Wait, F. A. Reyn-
olds, of Chamberlain: Henry C. White.
Of belmont; John A. Hughes, Of Gettys.
burg; e. j. 7Varre..#sof CHEYENNE
agency: J7an T. Whttloeis. of Forest
City.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
INDIAN PATTERNS AFTER
Pale FACE BROTHER

Pickerel Lake. S. D, Dec. A.
John Keeble. Sioux warrior
who owns the most of the land
around Pickerel Lake, has de-
cided not to lease any of the
land in future for hotel pur-
poses. In the past he leased
land for hotel and cottage pur-
poses, and as a. result number
of cottages have been erected in
this vicinity, in addition to
good hotel, which aided in maxi
ing Pickerel Lake o-e of the
finest fishing and shooting re-
sorts in the northeastern por-
tion of the state. Since the
building of the hotel and cot
tages hundreds Of people have
each season visited this resort.
Following the action of the In
diaSowner the hotel will have
to@be moved to a new location
this winter when the present
lease expires. It is stated that
the Indian owner of the land
also has decided to greatly in
crease the rental charged cot
tagers for the privilege of hav-
ing their cottages on the shores
Of the lake.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
STATE POULTRY EXHIBIT
COMES NEXT WEEk

Sioux Falls s. D., Dec. 6-Arrange-
ments rapidly are nearing completion
for the annual poultry and pet stock
show of the Sioux Valley Poultry as
sociation, which will be held in Sioux
Falls. commencing Saturday, Decem-
Der II. and continuing until Wednes-
day, December Is. Secretary Granger
birds from all the nearby statss, and
that there will be an unusually large
number of a very valuable kind from
the eastern states. The awards will be
made by Judge w. C. Ellison, the
we'll known judge of poultry exhibits,
who Is an authority on all matters per-
tanning to poultry interests.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
WATERFOWL SECURES
A PACKING PLANT

Watertown. s. o., Dec. GA mod
1000 hogs per day has located in this
city. and will be in operation by early
next summer. Ground will be broken
for the buildings within the week, all
details having been perfected and op-
tions on the site secured.
The Business Mems union has been
behind the enterprise for the last six
months but their success has been
kept secret till all plans were per
fected. The president of the company
IS III. j. Finn. of Austin, Mimi, where
he has been associated with the George
A. HORNED Packing company.
The nine lines Of .ilroad radiating
from this city make watertown an
ideal point for such an industry.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
SOCIALISM A FACTOR
IN hQMESTAkE STRIKE

IN HoMEsTAKE STRIKE
Lead. S. D., Dec. 4.-With the pres
ence of many Pink kerton detectives
scattered about the Homestake prop
critics, in addition to the numerous en-
ployes of the company who have been
specially deputized by the sheriff, abso-
lue quiet prevail The Homestake
company announced that it brought the
Pinkertons in only to protect it's prop
erty and not to use as spies, and that
they would conf1ne their attentions
strictly to the property and would not
be about the streets. The lines are
strictly drawn and no one not having
business about the property is permit
ted around.
The question at issue between the
Homestake company and the unions is
fast developing into well defined
struggle between socialism and those
policies that oppose it. Lead has long
been recognized as the stronghold Of
socialism in South Dakota, and until
this trouble of the Homestake's no or
ganized effort to oppose it has ever
been made, but it has now become ap-
parent that the anti-socialists are lin
ing up solidly with the churches to
weed out the teachings of socialistfc
orators who for months past have been
permitted to hold meetings on soap
boxes In the streets, one or two OF
which meetings were broken up by the
police when the speaker became abu-
sive.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
G0MPERS SCORES
IN HIGHEST COURT

Washington, Dec. s.-The supreme
ed the petition for a writ of certiorarl
in the contempt cases of Samuel Com
pers. Frank Morrison and John Mitch
ell, officers of the American Federation
of Labor.
bring the entire record in the BUCK
Stove & Range company case against
these men to the supreme court for:
review ~ "a & sws s5.sag
Messgss& Comp Mogrison alaid
Mitchell were present when CHIEF Jus
tice Fuller indicated the willingness Of
the court to review their case.
They did not first seem to entirely
comprehend the announcement, but
when explained to them their faces
were wreathed in smiles.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
BECOMES A MILLIONAIRE
FROM DESERT LANDS

Sioux Falls, S. D.. Dec. 4.-To clear
fortune Of $1,5O0,OO0 from an invest
ment in the cheap so-called desert
lands of Utah and Arizona, is the stroke
of good luck which has befallen Harry
L. Holster. pioneer business man OF
has made his home in Chicago. In
formation concerning the winning Of
the fortune by him has just been
brought here by returning traveller
from Chicago. The desert lands were
purchased in large quantities at mere
song. and great sums of money then
We're expended in putting in mamoth
irrigation plants for the irrigating of
the land. Much of the land now brings
as high as 800 per acre, and enough
already has been sold to give Hollister
the profit stated.