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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
SHARK TOWS BOAT IN FIGHT
Sea Monster Speared by Fishermen
Drags Craft in Water in Effort
to Escape.

New York; shark of the elephant
species, said to be the largest ever
caught along the Jersey coast. is on
exhibition in a Long Branch shop 1t
is " feet long and weighs 1000
pounds
1t was captured off Long Branch by
a fishing crew after a vicious battle.
1t is OF the man-eating variety,
which has a reputation for corlbative-
ness, and was feasting in a school Of
mackerel when the fishermen speared
him. For a half hour the monster
towed their boat around before he a
subdued with hooks and prongs.
The presence CT the shark has in.
timidated many of the bathers along
the Jersey coast, who fear that it may
be the %forerunner of many others.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
Calf Weeds Corn Field.

Columbus. Ind.-R. w. Prather, who
lives west of this city, has a living
weeder that is doing admirable work
The weeder is q half-grown calf. and It
works early and late. In some man.
ner this calf has been trained to 20
into the cornfields and chew up the
weeds. It never offers to bother the
growing corn, but It 10 death on weeds.
and the field where 1t worked last
week IL just ~ clean as IL human
hands had pulled every weed In II.
The calf may b rented in the neigh.
borhood to work the rest OF the season.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27

obstacle was placed in the way of her
election.
Finally it was pointed out hat the.
law required the state superintendent
to auction off certain tracts of govern
ment lands to prospective lessees, and
that his could not be done by a wom-
an. Miss Reel said that was a small
matter and that she was equal to it.
She was elected to the office finally
and later proved her ability as an auc-
tioneer by successfully carrying out
this part of the state superintendent's
duty.
Miss Reel speaks none of the Ian
guages of the Indians over whom she
has control, but has been signally sue
cessful in her administration. She has
279 schools, ~aggregating an attendance
OF 1854 pupils. In addition to these
students there are 2,423 employees, 572
of whom are Indians, under manage
ment. This branch of it's service costs
the government O than So, 900, 900 a
year, and Miss Reel is the administra-
tor OF the appropriation.
She is an experienced horsewoman.
and in the course of the year is COM
PEELED to ride hundreds of miles on
horseback and in stage coach to the
various reservations, many of them be-
ing great distances from the railroad
and only accessible in this way. Miss
Reel is a skilled politician, and has
participated actively in several presi-
Dental campaigns. She is a fine
speaker, and has not only appeared
many times on the stump, but has cast
her vote at the polls out in Wyoming.
where women have hat privilege.
There is a fair field at Washington
for women to assert their ability and
independence in the world of achieve
ment, and Miss Reels case is by no
means the only one where a woman
has proved her claim to recognition.
Her work among the Indians is reflect
ed in the accomplishments of the
clever Indian girl who is not in the
employ of the Indian government, but
who lives in Washington, hundreds Of
miles away from her peoples home
out on the plains.
Sophia Pritchlyn is the daughter of
a Choctaw chief and is a princess of
her tribe, but she lives here in a mod
est little home at 11O4 Sixth street.
Northwest, the back yard of which has
peer converted into a poultry farm,
and she has more than three hundred
prize winning single-comb brown Leg
horns which have won blue ribbons in
Madison Square garden, Boston, Baltt-
more. Hagerstown and practically
every other city in the east where
largt poultry exhibits are held.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
Mustache Hotbed Of Disease.

Paris.-The Parisian's affection for
his mustache and beard probably will
not be effected, but savants here
have just made an effective demonstra.
ton against the h~air-adorned lip as a
hotbed Of disease. A Parisienne al
lowed herself to be kissed by a clean
shaven and then by a bearded a
After each salute her mouth was
stroked with a sterilized brush. The
microbes thus collected were deposit
ed in a test tube and allowed to in
cubate four days. 1t was shown that
the clean-shaven nan had deposited
a small quantity of harmless particles.
His rivals kiss had colonized the
lady's lips with the bacilla OF tuber-
culosis, %diphtheria. pneumonia and nu.
nervous other unpleasant microbes.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
LAVA is RICH FERTILIZER
Discovery Of Chemist Means ths
Work Of Excavating H~ercuIaneum
Will Be Completed.

Rome.-Rich as have been the
treasures from Herculaneum excava-
tons, work there was never satisfy
ing to psychologists because the
people who built on the old site and
called the place Resina did not wish
to bother with diggers and drove
them off by putting p%rohibitiye prices
on the land.
Now the treasures will be unearth.
ed, by order of the Italian govern
ment, whatever may happen to Resi-
ma in the process.
A Zurich chemist has been analyz-
ing the lava that surrounds and part
ly covers He%rculaneum. He finds that
it contains a heavy percentage of
caustic potash, which may be extract
ed in paying quantities and furnish
enough fertilizer to satisfy the entire
Italian demand.
Having become convinced. Of the
value of the discovery, the govern
ment has asserted it's right Of emf.
nent domain in a decree that all lots
owe luc Silc VI llCASuiohSuhA oo
sold without reservation as to the
treasure underneath.
Under this decree prohibitive prices
will not be tolerated and the Zurich
chemists discovery. besides being OF
immense value to Italian agriculture.
will prove of worldwide interest in
the exploration of a site long reputed
to be of greater historic value than
that of POmpeii.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
W0MANS HIGH POST
Miss Reel Director of All Govern
ment Indian Schools.
Is Best Paid Employe Of Her Sex on
Rolls Of Uncle Granddaughter
of Choctaw Chief Raises
Chickens.

Misunderstanding the first dayr
of the big upheaval in the department
of the interior Secretary Ballinger sent
out orders to practically every depart
ment under his control that more work
and better work should be done in the
future. In issuing his orders the Sec
rotary of the interior did not overlook
the women employees of his depart
ment, and Miss Estelle Reel, superin.
tendent of Indian schools, was notified
that she must spend more time in the
field.
The mention Of Miss Reels name by
the secretary of the interior brings to
MINI the fact that she is the highest
paid woman in the government serv-
ice, drawing a salary of $4,000 a year.
She was appointed to the government
position in 1898 and is an authority on
every tribe of Indians in North Amer
lea.
That ONE are equal to govern
ment positions of extraordinary impor-
lance has been proved in the case of
Miss Reel. Although she is a native
of Illinois, Miss Reel has spent the
greater part of her life in Wyoming
She served as district, county and state
superintendent of schools in Cheyenne.
WyO., but before she obtained the last
position she was compelled to over
come enormous opposition. The politi-
clans out in that part of the country
were not anxious to see a woman in
the state SUPPLEMENTARY and every
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
UPL|FT TO FARMERS
Agricultural School Professors
Offer Cut Rates on Education.
Ride About the Country in Autonno.
biIes with Stenographers In En-.
deavor to Induce Farmers to
Send Sons to Colleges.

Utica, N. Y.-Professors from the
state agricultural schools are scour-
ing the country far and wide in auto
mobiles, with stenographers by their
sides, working a new "uplift" propa-
ganda. Their primary object, they
say, is to induce more farmers to send
their son to school. To accomplish
this the learned and Industrious teach
ers are offering regular bargain-coun-
ter prices to the ruralists.
Incidentally the state educators are
accommodating material for an up-to-
date dictionary or glossary of farm
slang and bucolic dialect. A represen-
tative of the agricultural college at
st. Lawrence university, who was In
Lowville the other day, said he had
picked up more queer words among
the farmers of Lewis county than he
w dreamed were in existence. The
state board of regents, it is said, is
considering plans for a Standard Ga
zeteer of farm slang as it is slung At
the "uplifters."
PAoASoSolS, ! ShSAA
biles and stenographers, ride out into
the fields and chin" with the farmer
and his help while they cut the hay
or pick the cucumbers. The idea is
to get the atmosphere" of farm life
and to give to the farmer a chance to
get into close and sympathetic COM
munion with the proselytes of agri-
cultural science. Then when a pro-
lessor gets a farmer interested he
brings u the goods, which in this
case is a cut-rate course in the agri-
cultural school. The teaching is free,
the only expense being for board and
a few books. The board for students
at Canton, for instance, runs from $3.50
to $3.50 a week. There are no educa-
tional requirements, and any young
man with a limited school education
is eligible for the course.
This is considered a good oppor.
tunity for a young man OF a farm to
obtain a practical education at very
small expense. In fact, a young man
may enter at any time during the
oShOOI ySol, ~ " q pSAAOu VI OAly
three months. This Is because many
young men can not leave the farms
before the first Of November, and
must be back there by about the first
of March.
The farmers are getting more fun
than the professors out of the "uplift"
tour. They are quick to Josh" the
professors and give them all sorts of
excuses for keeping their boys" on
the farm. Poverty is their commonest
plea. One old farmer who told Prof.
H. E. Cook he was TOO hard up, gosh
ang it, to buy taters to plant" winked
at his wife as the professor departed,
then hoped the barnyard fence and
got out his own gasoline runabout,
which had been standing out of sight
under the shed. He slipped on his
new gray coat and auto cap, and was
soon whirling by the unsuspecting
professors in a cloud Of dust.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
Registered Mail Addressed Chi
caqo Found in Small Ken
lucky ToWn.
Important Communications Contain
Ing Orders and Checks and Drafts
Missing Several Months, To-
Gated In Southern Village.

Chicago.-Have you missed any i'm
portant letters of late that were sent
by registered mail?
Maybe they are waiting for you
down in Chicago. Kentucky, an ambi-
tious little village that aspires. appar'
emily, to become a metropolis.
Perhaps you never heard of Chicago.
KY. Well, there are some people in
Chicago, KY, who never heard OF Chi,
cago. ILL.,, they say. One of them, it
seems, is Postmaster Philip C. Smith
The mutual discovery OF the exis-
tence of the other place on the map
came about when % pieces of regis,
tered mail that were intended for the
Illinois metropolis disappeared. and
when a corps of Industrious sleuths
were placed on their track they showed
up in the Kentucky namesake of the
larger city.
Some of them had been there since
December of last year and others had
iourneyed there as recently as July
81. None of them had been opened.
however, and the fault was attributed
by p~ostofice inspectors 70 the ignor-
ance OF the Kentucky postmaster.
However. Postmaster Smith was put
under advice. according to an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch, and the long.
standing mystery OF the missing let
ters was cleared up. incidentally the
same Chicago merchants reported an
increase of business. and some Ken
lucky customers shortly will receive
goods that they had ordered and paid
for.
All Of the letters had been mailed
from Kentucky points. and as some Of
the railway mail clerks in that part Of
the country are aware that Chicago.
m, has IN aspiring rival. It 10 as
sumed that the letters were put on
there by mistake.
so far O W know there was no
monetary loss" said Inspector Stuart
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
GO ASTRAY

of the Chicago ofic THE complaints
we're put in the hands Of a tracing
clerk a short time ago and the missing
% letters showed up in Chicago, Ky.
They were returned and on examina-
ton found to contain the checks or
drafts that were originally in them. 1t
clearly was a case Of a postmaster
who didn't know his business. but
hereafter we will know that there is
such a place as Chicago, KY. and will
know where to look for delayed mail
from that section of the country"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
Head Breaks Leo.

Atlantic City, N. IA hard-headed
swimmer in diving struck George N.
McMinn, a Richmond visitor. and
smashed his leg bone. Life guards
just managed to rescue the unfortun-
ate man alive.
Thousands Of bathers and strollers
saw the accident and heard the yells
Of the diver when he came up and
found that McMinn had disappeared
under the water.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
A Premonitjon.

That %laundress was prophetic" sob
bed the chauffeur's fair guest as she
stood, with damaged 1nery and 4
broken arm. in the police station.
How so?" asked the sympathetic
matron, who was trying to soothe her
till the ambulance came.
"She pressed this linen suit I Wa
going to wear on this Joy ride with !
- iron"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
As T0LO IN A Line
u BOILING DOWN OF THE NEWS
OF THE DAY.
MENTIONED IN SMALL SPACE
The Busy Reader Can Absorb In q
Few Moments 4 Good Deal Of
Information.
Foreign.

Announcement of an amicable set
tlement of all pending questions that
have served to disturb the friendly re.
lations between Japan and China will
be made officially within a short time.
Arrangements of the differences relat.
Ing to the Antung-Mukden railway
probably will be contained in a note
to the powers.
Greece's reply to the last Turkish
note regarding Crete has been com
municated to the powers. Its terms
are conciliatory, and diplomats here
consider that it should be satisfactory
to the porte, to which it was delivered
o The note regrets that after
Greece's previous assurances the
Turkish government still complains of
a attitude of Greece in Rumelia and
Crete.
A delegation of thirty-nine business
men, representing the civic and COM
mercial organizations of Toxic, Yoko-
hama, Osaka and Magoya, sailed on
the steamer Minnesota for Seattle.
They will our the United States as
guests of various chambers of COM
MERGE.
A dispatch from Portsmouth to the
London Daily Graphic says there is
much alarm there owing to the dis
covery thrice lately of supposed dyna-
mite cartridges among coal shipped
to Portsmouth for the battleships.
The latest find of this character was
during the coaling of the cruiser Duke
Of Edinburgh.
Oscar Malmros, American consul at
ROuen, France, Is dangerously Ill, &C
c0rding to a dispatch received at the
state department in Washington. Mr..
4almros has been in the consular
service for many years. having been
appointed in 1865. He is from Mime
sofa.
Madame B. F. Gayan, the wife of
the Argentine consul general at Buda-
pest. In a sudde- fit of madness,
drowned two Of her children in the
sea at Cirkvenca. Hungary, and was
restrained with difficulty from putting
m end to the life of her third child
and herself.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27

The National Association Of State
and Mnpicipal Boiler Inspection De.
partments was organized at Detroit ia
promote q uniform inspection of boil.
ers.
A. G. Van SAINT, the new national
commander of the G. A. R., has q
brother living in Omaha.
Nine are dead and fifty injured in
a head-on collision on the Denver &
Rio Grande near Hustled, Col. Mistak-
ing the headlight of an engine on a
switch for a section Of another train
was the cause Of the accident.
The department of agriculture has
issued q report showing the crop con-
ditions of foreign lands; with indica.
lions that they are least favorable in
the central part of Europe.
The comptroller Of the currency is
compiling a list of national banks
with affiliated state institutions.
Governor A. C. Shallenberger of Ne
braska and many Nebraskans and ex.
Nebraskans, took part in the celebra-
ton Of their states day at the Alaska
YukOn-Pac1nc exposition.
Secretary Nagle says taking of the
census will not cost as much as ex-
pected.
Ohio republicans are looking about
for 4 strong man to run for governor.
American cities are pronounced
twenty-five years hebind progressive
Germany in a bulletin issued by the
committee on congestion of population
in New York.
A number of Nebraskans and lowans
were successful in the land drawings
at Spokane.
sioner of internal revenue is beginning
to bestir itself in preparation for the
collection of the new corporation tax.
The first work to be done is to draw
up blanks and prepare regulations.
Many buildings were ruined by the
earthquake shocks in Japan.
ARTHUR Hale Smith, third son Of
Joseph Smith, who founded the Nor
mon church, died at Montrose, Ia,
where he was attending the conven-
ton of Latter Day Saints.
In an address at Shawnee. Okl..
Chairman Yoakum. of the Rock Island
said railroads and farmers should CO.
operate.
Driving up to the Valley bank Of
Santa Clara, CAL, in a hired automo-
bile, two youths covered Cashier Birge
and his assistants with shotguns and,
after securing $1,000, fed in the ma
chine.
The last shadow of the trouble be-
tween the street railway companies of
Chicago and their employees, which
threatened to lead to a strike of great
proportions. passed away last week.
At Brisbin. Arizona, A. T. Hoy and
William Bockholtz. linotype operators,
of the Daily Review, were murdered
while at work. William Pfancuck en-
tered the Office and, without a word.
drew a revolver and opened fire. After
killing the two he also fred at Migual
Avareta. a printer; a boy helper and
at Jay Wilmonthe. q special officer,
wounding the latter.
Joseph Furay of Warsaw, Ind. who
drew No. 1 in the Flathead land distri-
button, is apparently not excited over
his good fortune, although he has been
informed that his allotment is worth
$50, 600.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
General.

President Taft is preparing some
speeches that he will deliver on his
southern and western jaunt.
Two men we're killed in the first
day Of the automobile races on the
indianapolis speedway.
Sedgwick and Barnes will have first
and second places for the supreme
judgeship in Nebraska. Hamer and
FAwcett are running close, and the re-
suit is uncertain.
Walter Johnson takes issue with
the statement that General Howard
chose the battlefield of Gettysburg.
Naval officials are satisfied with the
bid on ~battleships, regarding the price
- reasonable.
FOREIGN
The navy officials opened bids on
two huge b~attleships soon to be con-
structed.
The naval board of inquiry reafirms
former verdict that Lieut.. Jas. N.
Sutton committed suicide.
Charles Taft, q second cousin of
President Taft, was killed at Prior,
Colo, thirty miles north of Trinidad
by lightning.
Thirty persons were injured, at least
aine Of them seriously, when a por-
hon of Twelfth street bridge over the
Chicago river at Chicago. which was
weakened by construction work, col
lapsed.
Twenty casks and nine cases con
tanning trophies of the hunt collected
by the Roosevelt expedition in South
Africa were brought to New York on
the steamer Provincial from Mar
oeilles.
Gustave Herring, ST., a ~bookeeper.
oh0t and instantly killed his wife,
Louisa. probably fatally %wounding his
ION. Gustave Herring. jr., and then
TITLED himself at their home in Chi
eAgo.
The late dry and hot weather Is
aid to have cut down former esti-
0ateS Of the corn crop.
Governor Brown of Georgia signed
the recent act Of the Georgia legis-
nature which prohibits the $ by
uegro secret societies Of the insignia,
ritualistic work. grips, etc., of orders
composed Of whites.
Occasional threats are heard Of q
tarif wal between the United States
and France.
No postal savings bank legislation
: be expected Of the next con-
gress. &
G. Q. Whedon filed . brief In de-
tense Of the Nebraska retaliatory law
n the California insurance companies
case Ia federal court.
Prince Albert Leopold. heir to the
Belgian throne. arrived at Antwerp
80 his return from the Congo, and
Owen IN ovation.
navy department has decided
David Williams, q mess attend
o. the baktleship Vermont shall
- aefrendersd - tho Massachusetts,
~ l1oaths q strict pfohibt
i1lupfe elllng and gambling we're
aaannD1 ~ WichitA, Kas
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
Washington.

Treasury officials are much gratifed
over the receipts of the bureau of in
ternal evenue for the month of July
the first month Of the new fiscal
year-which shows an increase of
$939.326 over July of last year. The
receipts during July. 1909, were $22,-
968,642. and during July, 1908, $22,-
02O,314. In the view of the officials,
this increase augurs we'll for the gen.
eral prosperity of the country.
President Taft may ride in the big
white house automobile in the floral
automobile parade to be held here
this fall under the auspices of the
Washington chamber of commerce.
Several cabinet officers will appear in
their own cars. There will be three
section to the parade, a governmental,
a floral and a commercial.
Much interest was manifested in
Washington by interior development
oficiels in reports from Denver. Colo,
that a hearing in Seattle, Wash, next
month will disclose proof of gigantic
frauds in connection with coal lands
in Alaska.
Senator Norris Brown of Nebraska,
author of the income tax amendment,
believes that the legislatures of three
fourths of the states will indorse the
measure. Since Alabama leads the al
phabetical list of states he regards it's
Endorsement Of the measure as an
omen of success. Ratification by a
majority of both houses of the legis-
latures of three-fourths of the states
is necessary for the constitutional
amendment which will admit of the
tax.
Rules governing the Philippine
tariff act were sent to customs Of
ficers.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
Has Whoopins Cough at ssveny-FIvs.

Has Whooping Cough at seveny-Fivs.
Middletown. N. Y.-Mrs. D. NJ. Wade
OF Montgomery. this county. 1t the
age of Is years is having her first at
tack Of whooping cough. and. although
It 10 a eve one. she IL happy in the
thought that she has escaped the in
fantile disease 10 long. Friends who
call to see her are reminded BY Mr..
Wade that her afnictions are IN indi-
cation that she Il to enjoy many more
years Of lito.s
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-27
Personal.

Congressman Hinshaw, in a speech
| printed in the Record made a defense
! of the new tariff.
President Taft may meet in New Or
| leans on his visit there about Novem-
Der l President Obaldia of Panama
and President Gomez of Cuba.
One hundred undesirable students
have been dropped from the University
OF Chicago. Seventy-ive are fresh
men and the remainder second and
third-year men.
In view of the precarious health Of
King Menelik. full powers of regency
have been granted to Ras Tesama,
the guardian of Prince Lidj Jeassu,
the heir presumptive to the Abyssian
throne.
It is reported that the young Shah
Of Persia attempted suicide.
The state department announced
tie appointment Of Ozro C. Gould OF
Minnesota, who has been a student
Interpretation at Toxic, to be vice
consul general at Seoul, Korea
Enemies Of Senator La Toilette In
wisconsin are maneuvering to best
him afor r~e-election.
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