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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
Rural pELYERY RourEs. 4o.eaz

Washington, June 14.-There were
aV,Dsa fula, roases ~ opsratlon on june
tho 1863 petitions FOR free delivery
pending. l,25S remain Enacted upon.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
TAX FERRETS
CAUSE FURRY
WITH LOANERS
Uncover Mortgage Loans Not
Fully Taxed by Authority Of
Commission.

Sioux Falls, s. D., June 1.-THE
knowledge, which has just leaked out,
that tax ferrets, in the persons OF r.
II. Pearson and G.. ID. Savage, are por-
ing over the books in the office OF the
register of deeds In this city with a
view Of ~uncovering mortgage loans that
have not been fully taxed, has caused
something Of a furry among the money
loaners OF Sioux Falls and other towns
In Minnehaha county. The board OF
county commissioners has authorized
he carrying IN of this work and will
pay a commission to the tax ferrets
on the new business they succeed in
getting upon the assessment books.
Thus South Dakota may be forced TO
run through the whole round of law
suits which upset conditions in Iowa.
n which were carried to the supreme
court Of the United States before final
~ being disposed OF. The first effect
OF the presence of the tax ferrets al
ready is apparent to the little nan
who desires to borrow money on his
house and lot or his household goods.
He cannot borrow the money at the
same rate of interest as formerly, at
least not until the money Gamer has
arranged to protect the loan from a tax
that will have the effect Of raising the
rate OF interest on such loans.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

OF late there has been an extraor-
binary development Of service in fine
new, modern, fast ships between South
America and ports in England, Ger
many and Italy.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
NO A ALLOWED.

Seattle, Wash, June 1.-THE
new anti -cigaret law has gone
into effect. 1t Ia the opinion at
the attorney-general's ONCE that
any persons who has cigarets in
hts possession 10 subject to fine
and Imprisonment.
The Alaska Yukon exposition
police are determined to enforce
the law. No one will be per-
mitted to smoke q cigaret on the
grounds,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

During the last IT years American
coal mines have killed 22,s40 men.
made at least 10000 widows and up-
ward OF 10000 orphans.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

There are in Great Britain $40. 600
holdings OF v one acre, OF which
81 per cent are under so acres, where
as only 81 per cent are over 500 acres
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

The pineapple is proving the most
important and valuable of ali the
fruits in Formosa. A single firm hsl
an output OF 350,0e tons last wear.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

or the 10000 women who have quail
ifed for the law in the United States.
less h a 10 have become advocates
In d federal supreme court.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

More than 10000 workmen are killed
In the course of a yea in this country
by accidents incidental to their occu-
pations.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

This year Argentina has $3.50, 900 tons
OF grain and four available for export.
The crop is put at 5000, 900 tons, the
largest ever. ...I'
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

NEW YORK-Fire in the house of
DIR. Walter B. James, adjoining that oc-
cupied by John ID. Rockefeller, jr., did
damage to the extent OF about $50, 900
Ia AT night. .
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

In Vancouver, b. c., turpentine Is
now being obtained from resinous
woods by an electrical process Of dis
tillation.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

The rate OF divorce in this countr
is twice that OF Switzerland, thrice
that OF France and 1--WE times that o.
Germany.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

The cats OF Berlin are all registered
and rel a tag.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

The town Of Bangkok Is largely
afioat, the houses being built on RATS
or bamboo.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

Figured as well as striped henriettaa
are In the shops.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

Concrete IL made from the refus.
OF q soap mill ut Calcutta.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

Oriental dye makers obtain 40 shade
OF yellow from the shell Of the pome
granate.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

Half OF the worlds zine comes from
Prussia
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

German soil feeds nine-tenths Of heJ
lpeanlA
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

lnod Tor the law In the United States,
less than 20 have become advocates
During the last IT years American
coal mines nave killed 22,S40 men,
made at least 10000 widows and up-
ward OF 10000 orphans.
This year Argentina has $3.50, 900 tons
Of grain and -four available for export.
The crop is put at 6,000,O 900 tons, the
largest ever ."f
More than 10000 workmen are killed
In the course of a year in this country
by accidents incidental to their occu-
pations-
In Vancouver, b. c., t~urpentine Is
now being obtained from resinous
woods by an electrical process Of dis
tillation.
The rate OF divorce in this country
is twice that OF Switzerland, thrice
that OF France and five times that OF
Germany.
The town OF Bangkok is largely
afioat, the houses being built on RATS
OF bamboo.
Oriental dye makers obtain 40 shades
OF yellow from the shell of the pome-
granate.
Concrete IL made from the refuse
OF q soap mill ut Calcutta.
The cats OF Berlin are all registered
and wear a tag.
Figured as well as striped henFiettaa
are In the shops.
ETalf ~ the rvorId,a zine cnman Prom
Prussia
German sol feeds nine-tenths Of her
lpeanlA
The Washington times., 1909-08-27

MOUNT VERNON. H.. Aug. e.
George Ruttledge found pearl iu the
Wabash River weighing forty-six grains
which he sold for $500 The jewel is
the largest ever taken from the stream.
Ruttledge VIII use the proceeds OF his
fnd 20 buy a feet Of mussel boats and
continue 10 gather shells and look FOR
NasriE
The Washington times., 1909-08-27
MUNICIPAL BUILDING
RED TAPE IS TO GO.
Less Delay Wanted in Dis
trict Government
Work.
COMMITTEE MAKES
MANY SUGGESTIONS
Would Adopt System Successfully
Used in New York City
Hall.

Red tape is to be eliminated in the CON
duct of the business of the District
government
The committee appointed by the Com
missioners to recommend changes in
the handling OF ca respondenee and
records with a view to greater promD-
ness and efficiency, TO-DAY submitted
its report to the Commissioners
In It's investigation inquiries were
made regarding the methods in use IN
the Government departments in Wash
ington. and also in New York city
1T is found SAYS the report that
practically all the departments IS well as
the city Of New York show tendency TO
decentralizs as much as possible. Thus
In New York a communication received
by the mayor relating to some subject
connected with the Health Department
for example, would simply be acknowl-
edged by the mayor with the statement
that the inquiry had been forwarded TO
the Health Department. which would
reply direct"
Use New System.
"It is the opinion of the committee
that the business Of the District of Co
the method in use in New York should
now be adopted here"
In order that matters addressed to the
Commissioners may not pass through
other Office without their personal
knowledge, the committee recommends
that the Commissioners hold a daily
board session and receive and author
ize the disposition of the mail as weu
as TO authorize such other business as
may come before the board
1t is believed. says the report.
that in this one matter the results
which viii be obtained would be such
an improvement in the administration
OF District affairs that not only viii the
correspondence Of the District Comnis-
sioners be promptly attended to. but
also, there would be the possibility OF
joint action oy the Commissioners in
board session in the execution Of con
tracts and the direction and dispatch
OF public business which requires THEN
united presence.
Clerk For Record,
The committee recommends also that
Congress be asked for an appropriation
for a clerk. al 81 400. who shall have
be kept permanently. Commissioner
West today expressed himself as espe-
eislly grstified at the recommendation
that the Commissioners meet daily In
board session. II have long been of the
opinion. said the Commissioner, that
there should be more concentration i'm
the work of the Commissioners, and
nearly five months ago I submitted 20
my colleagues a formal recommenda-
ton concerning the holding of daily
sessions. The motion, however, was not
acted upon and I shall renew & upon
the return OF Commissioners Macfarland
and Major Judson, and hope that il win
receive favorable consideration. In
other words. / would ike TO eliminate
LOT OF red tape
The committee consisted OF Cant VIII
iiam Kelly, Assistant Engineer Com
missioner, AlonzO Tweedale. auditor:
Daniel Z. Garges, chief clerk Of the
Engineer Department and DR. William
Tindall, secretary to the Board Of Com
missioneTs.
The Washington times., 1909-08-27
FEAR OF RACE WAR
IS NOW DlSPELLED
Police Force at Monroe, La, Re.
duced 10 Normal Numbers.
Feeling Dies Down.

MONROE. La. AGg. 27.-The fear Of
= race war which has prevailed here
since the shooting Of twenty-nine white
men by the negro, William Wade, has
passed.
The police force. which was augment
cd al the time of the trouble. viii be
able TO reduce its force today
Wade was bitter over the killing of
two of his friends, by the police last
week, who were shot while disturbing
the peace. and il is evident that he
started out 20 kin as many white men
sS he could before he lost his own life
A considerable amount Of money was
found upon wade and # led many 90
believe that he had been hired % XIII
the whites It is also rumored that he
II a member Of a negro secret society
9h0se purpose il IS TO kin white men.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-05
rapidly growing to be a national and
chronic disease.
Bolt Burns Hole in Nightie.

Marshall, Mo-, Aug. "A severe
electric storm struck this county Fri
day night. Hay stacks were burned,
valuable stock was killed and other
damage was done both in the town
and the country,
Charles Barr and wife, who live
near Marshall, had a close call, Light
ming struck their residence and the
bed in which they were sleeping, Mr.
Barr was stunned and was uncon-
scious for some time, A burn on his
forhead was the only injury.
Mrs. Barr was dazed, but not in
jured. Part of the bed clothes were
burned and a hole was burned in
Mrs. Bars night dress.
The telephone was torn from the
wall and the house was considerably
damaged.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-05
Bankers Got Him Released.

Jefferson City, Aug.-Under the
terms Of a parole granted by Gov
ernor Hadley just before he left the
city, Charles H. EVERY, former pay
ing teller of the St. Louis Union Trust
Company, was released from the
penitentiary Augustl. In December,
1905, Everly entered plea Of guilty
to a charge Of embezzlement and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for five
years. His conduct at the prison has
been exemplary.
The prime movers in behalf of
clemency are officials Of the St Louis
Union Trust Company, the United
States Fidelity and Guarantee Com
pany and a number Of well-known
financial men Of St Louis, all Of
whom join in stating that they believe
EVERY has been sufficiently punish
ed.
Everly has a wife and one child. A
St Louis business firm has offered
EVERY employment as soon as he is
released.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-05

suggestions opened by Bleriot. The
toughest and most disagreeable sheet
of water known to navigation has
been crossed by an airship, and will
surely become an aerial highway in
future years between France and En-
gland. The Channel, which has been
for centuries the 2-hour terror of
travellers, is to be, perhaps, an Incl
dent of twenty-three exhilarating
minutes in the air.
And now England will, indeed, be
concerned. The tight little isle was
nightly stirred to doleful apprehen-
sion over Count Zeppelin's wonder
full balloons in Germany. The naval
omnipotence of England seemed to
have been pierced by the daring
aeronaut of the German emperor.
! But now that a Frenchman from
Calais has landed his aero, light and
swift as a bird, upon the chalk cliffs
of Dover, there will be newer and
more lugubrious note in the voice OF
a kingdom where "the blues" are
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-05
How Tariffs Are Made.

1t is the popular impression that
tariff is the slowly worked out pro-
duct of protracted congressional in
quiry and matured thought. This i'm
preston is confirmed by long and
earnest senatorial debates
over one or another schedule. The
people who sat in the senate galleries
a few weeks ago and listened to the
elaborate discussion of the wool and
wooden schedule thought they saw
how tariffs are made.
That was great mistake. The
senate in adopting the schedule it did
merely ratified one which had been
agreed on months before by outside
parties. Last October east and west
met in Chicago. The manufacturers
of wooden goods Of one region and
the wool growers of the other came
together to- agree on the wool and
woolens duties of the tariff law which
they assumed would be passed the
following year. Their conclusion
was that the Dingley law rates should
be re-enacted. That having been
settled, nothing was left but to notify
congress quietly after it should have
been elected and had convened.
The elaborate hearings before the
ways and means committee were a
farce. The wool and woolens SEIZED
ule was then res judicata. The SEN
atorial debate was sham fight. As
the president of the National Associa
ton of;IWool Manufacturers, says
'This entire discussion is unnecessar,
and absurd. :" After the real tariff
makers had decided what the dutie.
were to beiwhy spend time in talk?
| If the allied eastern and western
Interests had seen fit they could have
|ordered congress to raise the duties
and presumably it would have dom
SO. 1t may be that the public shoul'
be thankful for their moderation
But what a Legislative mockery it j
when a few men get together in pri
vate, make out tariff schedules +
suit themselves, and then direct con
gress to make it law. Now we begil
to understand how tariffs are made
Chicago Tribune republican,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-05
Horse Thief Captured.

The following from the Salmon
Qdaho) Recorder will be of local in
terest from the fact that the party
from whom the horse was stolen is a
former well-known Hudson township
young man;
Sheriff Waters came in the last of
the week, bringing in with him
George Frary, who was wanted in
this county on the charge of horse
stealing. The horse belonged to Earl
Gilbreaith, of Leesburg, and was
taken from the pasture. Through
the sheriff of Custer county it was
learned that the thief was headed to-
wards Blackfoot, where the sheriff
was notified to watch out for the
man, a description being sent on
ahead. The Bingham county sheriff
had no trouble in identifying the pris-
oner in making the arrest. MIR. Gil
breath had offered a reward of $5C
! for the return of the horses and the
arrest of the thief.
Frary is now in the county jail
awaiting the serious charge of horse
stealing. His preliminary hearing
has not been heard on account of his
counsel being out of the city.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-05
LOOKING BACKWARD.

Columns a Quarter of q Gen.
fury AgO-Aug. 9Th 1884.
The "coons" celebrated the 4th of
August in grand style in Butler.
Column notice of the event)
AT the Willis Hotel in this city on
Tuesday evening July 18th Mr.. Or
vile Shelby was married to Miss
Bette Nafus, Judge S. F. Hawkins Of
ficiating.
Judging from our neighboring ex-
changes, il seems the whole country
is swarming with horse thieves and
we warn our Bates county farmers to
keep sharp lookout and shot gun
handy.
NJ. L. Wolfe, Bridge Commissioner
informs us that work on the Island
bridge is progressing rapidly.
Bids on the bridge at Bells Mill
were all refused by the court on
Monday.
A Times representative attended a
political picnic at Foster. A big time
was reported.
Chas. H. Morgan, John w. Aber-
nath and w. j. Stone. candidates for
congress are paying particular atten-
ton to the voters Of Cass county this
week.
i Announcement made that Senator
George G. Vest, the silver tongued
orator of Missouri, will be in Butler
about the first week in October.
Little Johnnie, son of George L.
Smith, seven years Of age, was acct
dentally killed while playing horse
Tuesday, He was pushing stick in
front of him when the end on the
. ground struck an obstruction, the
other end striking him in the pit o.
the stomach, from which injuries h,
l died within half an hour
: r. j. Starks, county clerk, appoint
1 ed Joe Brashear as his deputy.
The greenbackers held conven
ton in Butler Saturday and electe'
delegates to the congressional con
e vention at Rich Hill on the 9th.
e The bridge over Mormon Fork, be
}, tween East Boone and Deer Cree
v twp has been completed according t
% contract.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-05
Stole a Boat.

Up in Kansas City once, man
stole a house and made his escape
with it, but up at Monegaw Springs
last Friday night some one swiped
the steamboat of Captain Pidd, and it
passed Osceola about 2 o'clock Satur-
day morning chugging its way to the
Gulf. Later in the morning Captain
Pidd came down hunting for the out
fit and was informed that it was no
doubt still in the Usage river. In
company with Sheriff Foote he took
up the trail in another craft and dis
covered his property on a sandbar
near White Sulphur Springs, but the
thief or thieves could not be found.
According to the best information
obtainable the boat left Monegaw
about l0p. m. 1t was evidently in
Charge for some one competent to
work it as it missed all distractions
in the river until il had been abandon
ed, which was about sunup Saturday
morning.
II this thing becomes popular the
Osceola Motor Boat Club will have to
take their crafts to bed with them ev-
cry night. --Osceola Democrat.
Bleriot's Marvellous Achievement.
From the New York American.
We may be sure that what man
has done in this daring and inventive
age man will do again and continue
to do, and it is now written for the
future that the English Channel is
navigable by airships.
Marvellous are the possibilities and
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-05
RESULTS THAT REMAIN
Are Appreciated by Butler People

Are Appreciated by Butler People
Thousands who suffer from back
ache and kidney complaint have tried
one remedy after another, finding
only temporary benefit. This is dis
couraging, but there is one special
kidney medicine that cures perman-
emily and there is plenty of proof
right here in Butler.
Here'is the testimony Of one who
used Doan's Kidney Pills years ago,
and now states that the cure was
lasting,
Mark S. Clay, retired, High St,
Butler, Mo-, says: when | began
using Doan's Kidney Pills was suf-
fering from sciatic rheumatism and
Observation-Disclosures. procured this
remedy at Frank Gays drug store
and it gave. me prompt relief"
The above statement was given in
1902 and on Nov. 80, 1908, Mr.. Clay
added: 81 have never had a return
of my oldstroubles although ! occa
sionally use a box Of Doan's Kidney
Pills as a general tonic. My health
has been unusually good during the
last two years.
For sale by all dealers. Price s.
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the Unitet
States.
Remember the name Doan's-ant
]. lake no other.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-05
Missouri Quite Gold Enough.

A Cass county, Missouri, man, on
his recent return from visit to Cali
fornia, is reported as saying that
aside from the health and the weather
he believes California has been over
estimated about 500 per cent; that he
has three farms in Missouri that he
would not exchange, acre for acre,
for any California land that he saw
carloads of oranges rotting, because
there was no market for them, and
that Missouri is good enough for
him.
This picture of the land of oranges
and flowers may be a little over
drawn, Notwithstanding the fact that
the artist who drew it is a Missourian
and had been shown, but the stub
born fact remains, we think, that
Notwithstanding the fact that the eyes
of many Missourians have been at
tracted to and their ears tickled by
marvellous stories of California, Okla
homa, Texas and New Mexico, stories
of the mighty wheat fields of North
west Missouri. after all ought to be
good enough for them.
/ Fruit is the great crop in Califor-
mia, and so much Of it is raised that
the market becomes overstocked.
Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico
do not depend upon any one crop, ii
is true. The crops are more diversi-
fled, but an occasional hot wind
comes along and blights tomorrow
what was the promise of a magnifi'
cent yield yesterday. Wheat is king
in the northwest, but an occasional
failure and the sure prospect of the
coming of the time that comes to al
wheat-producing soils when some
quality of the soil is exhausted ant
that crop fails to yield in paying
quantities must always stare thu
wheat raisers of those regions in thu
face.
> Missouri, with her diversified crop
of corn, wheat, oats, grass and of al
. most everything that can be grown il
the temperate zone, there is never
total failure, and with the scientific
knowledge and with the experience
that Missouri farmers are gettin,
year after year there never will be
total failure.
, Neither will there ever be an over
: production Of the crops grown o.
; Missouri soil. Her corn, oats, whea
: and hay will all be needed in tn
t years to come. The only trouble wi
, be to supply the demand. Their
, will be no danger Of car loads Of Mis-
Y souri, corn rotting for lack Of mark
S ct, and a good market. The day
E twenty and twenty-five cent corn
s this country has passed away fol
ever.
4 Portions Of Missouri now produc
s finer favored fruit in the way of al
d Piles and peaches than the most fl
+ nous fruit countries Of all, and
n farmers will take the time from tn
# attention to more profitable crops
e care for orchards as they are care
+ for elsewhere there will be no pc
ton of the state that will not produt
A fine fruit.
d Keep your eye on Missouri, neigl
IS bors. It is the land Of promise ar
of performance. --Brookfield Gazett