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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-07-15
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The Homely One-shall you marry
Jack II refuse hlm7 The Pretty One
Yes. or II you accept him.
Customer would ike some butter,
please. New Assistant Clate OF cigar
storel-Medlum. mild or strong7
Mack-De Broke's ancestors were
among the first settlers. Tailor-He
doesn't take after them.-Town Topics.
Yep. woman Is certainly de cause
OF me being dis way. II me wife hadn't
lost her Job. I'd had a home right now
New Orleans Picsyune.
Wife (after a quarrel)-I wish L
had never met you. Hub-Oh. yes
Now when Il is too late you are sorry
for me-Boston Transcript
she-How dr. Mr.. Smith ever come
to be such a wonder at golfngf He-l
Batting his collar button from under
the bed with n yard stick.
~See. Fritz. we have been engaged
now seven years. Yes dear: that
means so many years less OF married
life -Meggendorfer Blatter.
Il made enough money In wall street
last week TO buy a house and lot"
ibid you buy its" ~well. no; but
wish I had."-New York Herald.
she-Do you think the married men
really envy the bachelors7 He-Ask
me II l think a barnyard fowl envies
the wild Philadelphia Record
Query-Do you believe in vaccina-
ton every seven yearss Reply
Ratheri The operation keeps the girls
from playing the piano for nearly a
week.
Harker-They say that FOUNDERS ,
wife has money. Parker-well. that /,
Isn't FOUNDERS fault. They have been
married only a week.-chIcago Daily ,
News
Tho Husband-Well. say what you \
Will. my dear. you'll md worse men
than me In the world. The wIfe-Oh. '
Tom, how can you be so bitteri-The a
Sketch. l,
Our charges are the lowest In a
own observed the barber. .Cut p
-ates. chr said the customer. as he s.
ooked at his lacerated chin in the "
II
The Dear Girl-He had the impu-
enoe TO ask ne for a kissl Her Dear 8
idea What cheek. The v
Dear Girl (blush.ng)- wasn't par
lcular which. &C
Miss Kitty-Before you were mar =
led. Mrs. Blunt. did your husband -
ring you many sowersf Mrs. Blunt .
Il didn't have any husband before I :.
'as married. dear. -
$50. your daughter is improving In M
err plano playingT' YES" answered IN
Ir. Cumrox. you enjoy itY' ~No. or
ut 1t doesn't make me as nervous as XII
used to"-washlngton Star WI
Rubby-what. Another new dress, ye
'ifey-well, don't be so cross. an
'ught 1t with my own money. Hubby au
Your own7 Where did you get 1t tee
ON, wifey--I sold your fur coat for
tick. fol
''0f co-rse." said the optimist. "if err
IN gets into the habit OF hunting trou- ma
, he's sure to iind It." yes" replied vo'
E ressimist, ''and II he's SO lazy that ore
always tries to avoid It. It will find tur
n. SO what's the differencey" ma
Father-It's singular that whenever slol
want you to marry a man you object cas-
d whenever I do not want you to ina
Try one you straightway insist on IN
Dauehter-Yes. and whenever we pri'
} agreed the man objects.-stay I
,rles. mu
Yorkshire Farmer (burstlng into the eve
age inn--What do you think. silasi two
e bones OF a prehistoric man have by
n discovered on Jim Whites farm. A
'keeper-Great gosh / hope poor who
III be able TO clear hIssolf at the cent
oner's inQuest-Tit- Bits In 4
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-07-15

Before demanding your own way
Il is well to consider whether you
would be willing to grant everyone
else the same privilege.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-07-15

This insurgent move you hear 80
much about in Congress is no noveltyt
every family has an insurgsnl or
two. although. perhaps, they are known
by another name.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-07-15

A newly married man IN towx~
whose wife never learned to cook de-
Gently, IL suffering with Goldfish balr
In his vermiform appendix
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-07-15

Our Idea OF lucky man Is one who
never has occasion to change his opin.
lon OF himself
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
CHARGES PACKERS
WITH STAMP FRAUD
Cudahy Company Indicted for
Violating the Internal
Revenue Laws.
SALES OF Olt0 INVOLVED
Amount of Taxes Lost to the Govern.
ment Said by Officials to
Exceed $I2S,000.

Topeka, Kan, April Is. - Charged
with defrauding the government by
violations Of the internal revenue
laws, an indictment was formally re
turned against the Cudahy Packing
company of Kansas City in the Unit
ed States district court here yester-
day.
The company is indicted on sos
counts. The officers of the company
will be summoned to appear in court
and defend the charges outlined in
the indictment.
The charge is that the packing com
pany defrauded the government out
of a large sum of money by using
quarter-cent revenue stamps on pack
ages of oleomargarine, when 10-cent
stamps should have been used.
The grand jury was dismissed, fol
lowing the return Of the indictment,
Penalty 10 Heavy.
Washington, April II. Internal
revenue officials expressed no sur
prise at the announcement that the
CudahY Packing company had been
indicted at Topeka, Kan, for frauds
against the internal revenue laws. II
was admitted that the oleomargar;ue
business of the company had been
under observation and investigation
by treasury agents for three months
or longer.
1t was stated that government
agents have examined a very large
number of samples Of ole~omargarine
in many parts Of the country sold by
the Cudahy company, and that while
it would not be expedient to estimate
the amount Of taxes involved in the
alleged frauds, it is known hal the
officials believe 1t will be in excess
of 1926, 900, and possibly a much
larger sum. The penalty provided
for violation of the law is a fine OF
from $500 to $4,000 and imprison
ment from six months to three years
for each offense.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
SUICIDE ASKS CnUM'S ADVICE
Youth Discusses Best Mems Of Death
With Friend and Then Makes
Good Threat.

Tyler, Mimi, April 20. After dis
cussing anatomy with a friend and
specializing on the surest means of
~inficting death, Henry Nelson, nine
teen years old, a promising youth Of
this place, committed suicide by
shooting.
In the discussion the two young
men had come to the conclusion that
a bullet fired into the brain through
the temple was the most certain
method of killing a human being, and
1t was by that method that Nelson
destroyed his W life.
Contrition v er a recent indulgence
in liquor at a dance is supposed to
have produced a condition of melan-
choly, and the young man is known
to have remarked that if his parents
learned OF his remissness he would
put a bullet through his head.
Saturday evening Nelson hired a
horse and buggy, and with Holger
Egequist went out for q drive. 1t was
then that anatomy and death were
discussed.
Egequist had no intimation of his
friends gloomy intention and was en-
tirely ~unprepared for the tragic hap
pening that followed their return to
town, although Nelson did not seem to
be normal.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Up TO NORTHWfS!
TO FURNISH WHEAT
Deficiency in the Winter Crop
Must Be Supplied by
Spring States.
BIG DEMAND FOR CASH WHEAT
Farmers Are Already Busy With Seed
ing, but Warm Weather Is
Much Needed.

Minneapolis. April 20.-The North
west must be looked to this year 10
bring the wheat crop Of the united
States to a total that will dissipa'e
concern regarding adequate
for the coming season. With the poor
prospects in the winter wheat area
the spring wheat state Will nave u
make I'D the deficiency, and the
Northwest is the great center OF the
spring wheat territory.
High prices will stimulate a larger
acreage, not only because the last TWO
crops have been marketed at an ex-
cellent profit, but because the l9o9
harvest is likely to meet with excel
lent prices. Unless the shortage IN
supplies that has made it possible for
a bull pool to make a big killing Is
an illusion, there will be a broad COM
mercial demand for all the cash wheat
as fast as 1t comes on the market.
Seeding Under Way.
With the first real indication or
sDringlike weather over the country
seeding of the new crop will progress
RAPIDLY. Work has been under way
for some time, but the cold nights
have retarded operations in the fields
and limited the time to the middle Of
the day. The warmer weather will
bring tie farmers into the fields in
full force, and if wheat receipts fall
off in the Northwestern markets it
will be because the men that raise
the grain are busy planting the next
crop.
From the reports received at the
cfaTber Of commerce there is a big
grain acreage ready to be sown.
Flowing was done on a large scale
last fall and the ground is in excel,
lent condition for the seed. The Red
river valley is especially fine and a
large p~rt of it is already seeded. In
South Dakota and in Minnesota work
lGs been under way and it may be
sare.y predicted that by the latter
Part Of this week the reports will be
that fed work is general.
Zig Year for Farmers.
The farmers of the Northwest have
lad a big year. Prices for cash wheat
have ranged high throughout the sea.
son. One would have to go back
many years before finding cash wheat
prices at the level they are now sell
ing. No record for the last nineteen
years diSclOgeS such quotations as
are now being received this month OF
April. In 1908, when the Letter cam
align was in full swing, cash wheat
touched S1.23 in Chicago and culmi
mated in the month following at S1.85
The next week or ten days is likely
to be a eliminating period in the pres
ent wheat deal. Warm. CROWNS
weather is good for the winter wheat
crop and may benefit the plants to the
extent of making future prospects
seem more promising, or may so hast
en- the maturity of the plants as tc
make the July future a new crop con
tract.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
ARE DENOUNCED AS GAMBLERS
Illinois Legislature May Strike Blow at
Heart Of Gambling in 80.
FOOdstuffs.

Chicago, April 20.-A cent a loaf Is
the toll which it is proposed to exact
on all bread sold in Chicago after May
1 as a result Of the sensational ad-
vances In the price Of wheat follow
ing the deals of James A.. Patten and
other big bull spectators on the
board of trade.
A proposed advance to 6 cents a loaf
was announced yesterday by Mathis
Schmidinger, president of the Chicago
Bakers association, who declares
that fifty bakeries In the city had
been forced to close In the last few
weeks because of the high price OF
-four and the refusal of the mills to
extend credit.
With members Of the state legisla-
ture planning to strike a blow at the
heart of gambling in foodstuffs, the
men of the Patten variety were de-
nounced on moral and religious
grounds by Rev. DR.. Milbourne T.
Boynton. pastor Of the Lexington Ave
hue Baptist church.
Board of trade managers defended
their trade, and President John A.
Bunnell said the position of the board
was so strong as a beneficial and in
dispensable factor in the country's
business that the organization had
nothing to fear from the legislative
attacks at Springfield. and that the
organization courted the fullest inves-
tigation by a legislative commission.
Along with these various develop
ments came the news that J. Ogden
Armour, who went heavily short of
May wheat to Patten last fall, has
more than counterbalanced his losses
by bullish operations at Liverpool.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPTOMf
01Sest Of the News Worth Telling Coz
densed for the Busy
4. Reader.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Woodbury. Point fs 10 Dc 'he
"Oyster Bay" of the new administra'
ton. Oficial announcement has beer
made that President Taft has lease q
cottage In the vicinity OF Beverly
Mass, for his summer home.
President Taft has directed Director
North Of the census bureau to disre'
gard party lines in obtaining suitable
men for supervisors and other ap-
pointive places under the new census
act. The instructions. II IL said, have
especial reference TO the South.
The supreme court OF the United
States denied the motion for a re-
hearing in the case of the Waters
Pierce OIL company In which the SUI
preme court afirmed a decision by
the Texas courts imposing a fine OF
$1,000 900 on the company and ousted
Il from the state.
The construction Of fifty expert
mental mounds on which the people
living along the banks of the Missis'
sippi river may take refuge. together
with their live stock, during seasons
Of flood, is the proposal that Repre-
sentative r. NJ. Wallace Of Arkansas
ID preparing to urge upon congress.
Between now and July / the serv'
ices Of about sixty temporary en-
ployes Of the forestry bureau will be
dispensed with. the dismissals being
made necessary by the fact that much
Of the work Of the bureau formerly
done In Washington has been trans
ferred to the six recently established
field districts.
The New Orleans board Of trade
and ship companies in New Orleans
asked the secretary OF the navy to
make a resurvey Of the water and
coasts Of Central America and ada
cent islands. II is declared a number
of vessels have been stranded In that
region In the last few years because
of imperfect surveys and defective
charts.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
CONVICT LEAPS INTO BELT.
XIII Self on First Day Of Term at
saltwater.

Saltwater, Mimi, April 20. Made
desperate by brooding over his unnat'
ural crime and by the prospect of G.
long term of imprisonment in the pen
itentiary, George Fazekas of st. Paul,
who was sentenced Friday afternoon
and donned a ~convict's garb here late
Friday, committed suicide in the state
Irvine plant late Saturday afternoon
by jumping into the twenty
belt which connects the machinery on
the first and second floor of the fac
tory.
Fazekas' body, when 1t was finally
tossed clear of the belt and fell upon
the floor, was crushed almost out of
resemblance to a human being. Near,
ly every bone in his body was broken.
1t was the most spectacular tragedy
the prison has ever known.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
OTHERWISE.

Mrs, Esther Hoge Patterson, aged
102 years, died at Philadelphia. She
was a member of the most exclusive
society circles in Philadelphia.
Gen. Matthew Butler of Edgefield,
S. c., former United States senator,
and one of the last of the Confeder-
ate cavalry generals, is dead, aged
seventy-three.
Samuel Gompers announced that he
would sail for Europe on June % to
investigate conditions of the labor
class in England, Germany, France,
Sweden and Italy.
William H. Howick, seventeen
years old, died at Pittsburg as the re.
suit of running a Marathon race three
weeks ago. Howick won the race,
! but never has been we'll since.
Reserves Of Alberta red wheat are
so low that a Calgary broker was
unable to fill a 50,000-bushel order
from Liverpool. Only small lots are
available in scattered elevators.
At a special election Fort Dodge
men and voted 49S majority
out of 97S votes cast, for levying a
$4,000 bond issued for the erection
o; a school house in the Olsen Lane
company addition.
The knell Of the bucket shops IL
Chicago WAS sounded by Chief of Pc
lice Shippy. Upon evidence fur
nished by the board of trade detect
ives were SEN out to notify nint
bucket shops to close up.
Locked in a banana car for three
days, Jack Johnson, a colored youth
feebly called for aid when a trair
from the South reached the Clinton
Iowa, yards. The lad, thinly clad
got in the car south of Jackson an
was locked up, nearly dying of expo
sur and hunger en- route to tn,
North.
Frank Gotch OF Humboldt, Iowa
succeeded in retaining his title a
champion wrestler of the world b
defeating Yusin Mahmout of Bulga
ria in a fast and furious match ii
Chicago. The much-touted Bulgaria.
was as a child In the hands of tn
American master Of mat strateg,
Gotch won both falls with crotch an
half-Nelson holds, respectively. i
eight minutes and nine minutes an
te nseconds.
:. The first Canadian west crop repor
was issued last week, showing a 10
per cent increase in the seeded are
In Southern Alberta. Little seedin
has been done outside that distric
and will not be until the end OF til
month.
Voted at q church bazaar AZ Hoo,
o er. Neb., to be the "homeliest man /
town. s. j. Hall. a blacksmith. ha
disappeared. He left a note decla
ing his intention ito seek a commun
! ty where he al divide his distin
U ton with some other 'looking.glas
bresk~-,"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
SINS AND SINNERS.

Chief Of Police Shaffer of Evanston,
ILL.,, was stabbed in the face and Sc
verely injured in a conflict with a
demented woman.
Elmer CHM of indianapolis shot and
killed william Walker. CHM had re
turned home and found Walker with
his wife. He was arrested.
Ernest Morris, formerly OF Bethany,
Mo-, is under arrest at Regina, Sask.
charged with the murder of his broth
er, Charles s., q farmer with whom
he lived.
Ellis Bartholomew OF Toledo, a pro
moter of banks and railroads. was
found guilty In the United States cir
cult court at Cleveland of using the
mails to defraud.
During the voyage of the Cunard
liner, Lueania, which sailed from
New York April Z, two young women
who occupied a second-class cabin
together committed suicide by shoot
ing.
Oswald Roberts, an actor from Liv
erpool, who has been playing the part
OF the villain in the Sheriff of Angel
Gulch," was found dead In his room
in Philadelphia with a bullet in his
brain.
After forty years in the service Of
the government as q letter carrier
Ben James Holland was arrested in
New York on the charge Of stealing
money from letters given to him fol-
delivery.
Edgar B.. Lare, cashier at the Tren
ton Office Of the Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company of Newark. was
arrested In Newark and brought tC
Trenton, N. j., to answer q charge
Of embezzlement.
Two masked robbers entered the
home OF Aid. A. II. Rogers, in Temple
! street, Springfield, Mass, bound and
gagged a daughter. Miss Neil Rogers
who was alone, stole all the silver
ware and escaped.
Louis p. Allard was arrested al
New Orleans upon landing from the
steamer Parisiana, from Colon. It is
charged that he defrauded merchants
Of Peoria, H., OF about $40, 1000 on DO
gus drafts and checks.
Three young men were arrested al
Erie, Pa, charged with having sem
Matchmaking letters to Charles H
Strong, president Of the Erie & Pitts
burg railroad, demanding $500 on pen
atty Of death. The men were bound
over.
Because he could not get a possur
which he had ordered in a restaurant
in Chicago, James Green, a coloreC
man, walked into the kitchen and at
tackled the cook with a meat carver
The cook was taken to a hospital anc
Green to a police station.
Samuel Kline, twenty-five years old
recently of New York, and his bride
of three weeks, Ida Branz Kline, aged
twenty-one years, were found lyins
dead from bullet wounds on the fool
Of their oom at Portland, Me. The
coroner believes it was a case Of muir
der and suicide.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
TALK WITH TAFT.
Representatives Of Federation Of La
Dor Lay Matters Before President.

Representatives Of Federation Of La
Dor Lay Matters Before President.
Washington, April IS. - President
Taft discussed the problems of the
~workingman for two hours yesterday
with the members of the executive
council of the American Federation
of Labor, which is in session in this
city.
The labor leaders, headed by Sam,
uel Gompers, president Of the fedora,
ton, called at the White House to
present to the president a number
of matters of vital interest to organ,
lied labor.
Gladly Gives Ear.
Mr.. Gompers declared that the
president not only gave the spokes'
men of the party all the time they
desired to lay their matters before
him. but joined himself in the dis
cussion from time to time to bring
out fuller information on the various
subjects as they were reached.
When the conference had reached
its close the president told his call
ers he would investigate such of the
matters presented which seemed tC
him to require such action, and thai
he would be glad to help, as far as
his opportunity would permit, in ar
irving at a proper solution of tbs
difficulties in which the working PEG
pie found themselves, while at the
same time keeping the interest of tn
whole people in view.
Imposing Array of Problems.
The labor leaders seemed pleased
with their reception. They took u
| with the president an imposing ARA.
of problems, including the matter o
injunction, the e~ight-hour law, con
| vict labor, the recent indictment o
labor leaders in the South for allege,
violations of the Sherman anti-trus
law, the danger of a dissolution Q
all labor organizations under a stric
Interpretation of recent decisions b
the supreme court, the maintenance
of international peace, labor prol
lens on the Panama canal, the az
herence to the right of asylum /
this country for political offender
from other lands and child labor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
FAILS IN sLACkMAIL CASE.
Six Arrested In Fillmore County ri

Six Arrested In Fillmore County Dis
charged for Lack of Evidence.
Preston, Mimi, April 20.-The state
failed to make a case against the six
young farmers from the town of
York, who were accused of completely
in a b~lackmailing conspiracy. The
defendants, John Englebritt, Lloyd
Smeed, Carl Lawrence, Orville, Mimi;
James Franklin and Jess Tribal, were
therefore discharged from custody.
This may or may not be the end of
a remarkable plot, in which 1t is as
serted a dozen or more men and boys
participated. to b,ackmail Emil Dreck-
man, who lives on a farm about four
teen miles south of Spring Valley.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
BOYS PEPPER SWELL CROWD.
It's With Pepper They Peppered New
Richmond (Wis.) Society.

New Richmond, Wis, April 2O.-The
annual library ball, designed to be
one of the swell society functions of
the year, was held at Hagan's opera
house Saturday night. = 1t narrowly
missed being a rough house.
The management posted a police
officer at the door to keep from the
building undesirable spectators. and
then the baDished ones avenged them
selves by blowing pepper through the
windows. A list of the boys were Sc,
cured by the police.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
WOMEN ROAST BLIND PIG.
Even Dozen Make War on Ignite
Booze Emporium.

Flaxton. n. D., April 20.-The WON"
en- of Ignite, a small town on the
Great Northern road, a short distance
southwest of Flaxton, have taken a
strenuous hand in the suppression of
blind plugging in their town.
A dozen wives and mothers Of the
place armed themselves with hatch
cts, re~voIvers and gas,I line, and after
demolishing the contents of a blind
swinery baptised it with gasoline and
set it afre, burning it 10 the ground.
They then notified the keepers of
four other booze joints to quit or a
like fate would befall tnem.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Trauedy at Zumbrota.

Zumbrota, Mimi, April 20.-Ole o.
Odden is under surveillance, charged
with having shot and killed Frieda
Tongen, then shot her three-year-old
daughter and himself. Odden and the
child are are still alive.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
STUDENTS ARE POISONED.
Seven Goods and Seven Males in Sc.
rious Condition.

Des Moines, Iowa, April 20.-Seven
Des Moines college goods and seven
male students are in a serious cOndi.
ton and one may die, following a mys-
FERROUS poisoning at dinner at the
Kamaraderie and Altruria clubs Sat
urday.
Milk is the one article taken in
common by all the sufferers, but an
examination by State Chemist w. T.
Frisbie and State Dairy Commissioner
H. r. Wright failed to disclose pto-
maines or injurious bacteria.
Commissioner Wright said he be-
lieved there was tyro toXicon in the
milk.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Fierce Storm in Iowa.

Des Moines, Iowa, April 20.-A ter
rife hail and wind storm struck Des
Nome sand Central Iowa yesterday
afternoon, doing heavy damage TO
budding fruit trees. The Polk county
court house here was struck by light
ming and slightly damaged.