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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-06
ON THE NORTHS SIDE
Mr.. DOlman Would Have Regu-
lar Tree Planting Day.
Plan to Cover the bikes With
Willows.
NEED PEOPLES HELP.
The Task Will Prove to Be a
Big One.
Election Is Quiet in First Ward
Precincts.


& Son, the contractors who are in
charge of the dixie work, who has been
advocating the planting of willows on
the dfkes to bind the material to-
gether and add to its power to resist
the action of the current, proposes
that If the drainage board should see
fit to adopt his plan that an arbor
day be set aside for tree and shrub
planting.
~''I think such a plan would be well
taken," said Mr.. Dolman this morning.
eff the drainage board takes favor
able action upon my plan Of planting
willows along the sides of the dikes,
and then sets aside an arbor day for
the purpose, I believe the people
of North Topeka would turn out and
help.
"I should think that people would
be willing to do their part to help in
crease the efficiency of the embank-
ments and at the same time beautify
the dikes Rose bushes and other
shrubbery as well as willows could be
planted It would be my idea to place
these near the river level.
81 am of the opinion that on GER
tain day, people living along the diff
ferent stretches of the embankment
could plant trees and shrubs on their
section of the dixie and thus do the
work in a thorough and systematic
manner
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-11-09

I, all kinds people the world and the weary
wandercr IN the above picture Of them
Who would beside OF powder with
lighted who wouldn't a hurry he the
plainly
tFampf lie be the reckless partyf
But the completed and be has
small detail insert which viii different
T. think that small but wonderful dea try
And you TALL will be made clear Ia tomorrows
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-11-09

PARIS Nov. a.--AishouFh the
Preach newspapers are deyoting
much space 20 Col Roosevelt. they
ars paying very little attention TO
facts sincc he has been In Africa.
The Petit Partisan today has a
new dream" In an article under 3
Rome date from a STAFF correspond.
ent which SAYS that n creal reason
Tor Rcoscvelt's trip 70 Africa IL a
campaign OF territorial aggression
and insists that the hunt IL a mere
pFcisxt for covcriag q political com.
mission
The correspondent says that this
commission IN the exploration of Ger.
tain parts Of Africa In preparation
for American occupation and settle,
ment How the territory Is to be
grabbed" OF who Ia backing The
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-11-09

Purity and accuracy the two great factors IN
ton work In the Quaker prescription departments ab =
insisted upon You get exactly what your doctor r.a
you should get and you pay less Tor than the ordnsv 49,
macist charges.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-11-09
ONE KILLED; NINE HURT IN
SAN FRANCISCO CAR WRECK

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov 3. one
man was killed and nine persons
we're injured today when an In
bound Ellis u. car skiddcd on the
slippery rails on Kills Ut. between
Van Mesa av and Polk - and
crashed Into a woaan. Instantly
killing the teamsieF. Harry spell.
man. and causing panic among
the hundred passengers on board
the car
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-11-09

Most OF those burt we're struck
by flying glass, and none we're
seriously injured.
MotormAn Harris wns arrested
SpellmAn vas horribly mangled
under the wheels OF the car. and
II was necessary 70 call d wreckinK
crew and raise the car before bis
body could be removed from be.
meath the forward trucks.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-11-09

A one-day's sale of regular
81 black sateen and heather
bloom petticoats. Tailored and
fancy flounces. Good full
width.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-11-09
Horse Owners,
Attention

Best Of care and pasture for your
horse for the winter Phone Main
Is or Main t3e. Inquire John Wal.
lace, Meadows. 49,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-11-09
EXTRA! ROOSEVELT GRABBING
AFRICA FOR THE UNITED STATES

scheme. the correspondent, falls TO
state.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
Kngsbury Dakota Friday january 1909

courts, to be consistent, enjoin any
effort to prevent them from raising
their rates?
The point of it all is that the rail
roads have constitutional rights, while
the people have not. And while the
courts are engaged in long inquiries
to determine. if any of the constitu
tional railroad earnings would be
confiscated if rate is reduced in
compliance with legislative order or
if rate is not increased in compliance
with railroad order, the people con-
tinue to pay the higher rate. And,
by the time the courts would de
termine whether the railroad com
panies could afford to obey commits
sion order not to make a contemplat-
ed increase in rates, the switchmens
pay may have been reduced cent an
hour, the emergency may have pass
ed and the railroad company may
have gracefully reduced the rate to its
former figure. Sioux Falls Press.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
WHAT WOULD THE COURTS SAY?

Says the Sioux City Journal, com
menting on the increase in freight
rates which will take place with the
new year:
"Whether or not the new rates shalt
be justified in practice, it is likely
their PRONUNCIATION will have the
effect of cul,ivating sentiment in favor
of giving the interstate commerce
commission the right to approve or
reject future rate increases before they
can be put into effect. 1t will be
argued that if an increase can be
justified it might better be justified
before than after taking effect. And
if it cannot be justified, obviously it
should not be allowed to take effect.
But what about the constitutional
rights of the railroad companies, those
sacred privileges over which the
courts stand guard like grim sentnels
In South Dakota, for example, the
state commission, after an inquiry, or
dered p cent passenger fare. That
was something over year ago, but
travellers In South Dakota are still
paying fares at the rale of three cents
a mile. The federal court has stop.
ped the enforcement of that order,
lest it deprive the railroad companies
of their constitutional right to earn a
reasonable profit on their investment
Now if reductions in rates must be
made with such great care lest there
be encroachment upon the constitu-
tional rights of the railroad companies
what assurance have we that these
same inalienable privileges might not
suddenly be trod upon by refusal to
permit an advance in ratess If we
may believe our earnest friends, the
railroad officials, the granting of an
increase of one cent an hour to switch.
men may be enough to start great
railroad system on the chute leading
to bankruptcy. And if, by reason Of
some such increase in the cost OF
operation, the dividends of the rail
road companies fall below the con
stitutional figure, should not the
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
10000 PERISH BY EARTHQUAKE.

Reports from Rome are to the effect
that in all about 10000 people lost
their lives from the effects of an
earthquake and the resulting tidal
wave Monday, December 28th.
The stricken region is in the south
ern part of Italy and the island of
Sicily. The destruction of buildings
was fo lowed by fire, and those who
escaped death by these means were
overwhelmed by tidal wave over
thirty feet high The loss of life is
one of the heaviest from this cause re-
corded in modern history; the de
struction of property cannot even be
estimated at this time. A dispatch
from Rome says:
Rome, Dec. %. The disaster in
the province of Calabria and the is
land of Sicily has today assumed
staggering proportions. Each sue
ceSslve report received from the
stricken region makes it more APP
parent that the first stories of wide
spread destruction were little. if any,
exaggerated.
Messina alone reports $4,000 victims,
but it is feared this is only partial
list of the dead and wounded.
Reports are coming in from other
towns, giving estimates of the dead
there from 500up to several thousand.
Reggie still remains in it's tragic
isolation. 1t is impossible to get
word from the stricken city. This
silence gives raise to the most fearful
apprehensions. A dispatch from
Catanzaro says only few thousand
out of the entire population of Reggie,
placed at $4,000, have escaped death
or injury.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01

are sending their sons and daughters
out into the world in utter ignorance
of what it is their solemn and bound
duty to speak to them of.
"Find out for themselves2" Yes
indeed they will and Satan in human
form may be their teacher, and the
truth never learned from the lips of
love will enter by the door of sin and
shame
Man possesses a moral as we'll as a
physical self. If ignorance there
means disaster, not less so does it
here. Learn what are the forces at
your command; you know where YOU
are weak and where you are strong.
If we would learn the cubits Of our
moral nature we must come into the
presence of the ideal man and Judge
ourselves by him.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
EPIGRAMS.

From Sunday Sermon by Rev. II. Preston
"Know thyself," said the ancient
Greek oracle; and If, as Pope has told
us, 'the proper study of mankind is
man., then each one should acquire
all the knowledge possible in regard
to themselves.
Despite all that the schoolmaster
and the popular scientific and health
lecturer have done to give us knowl-
edge of our physical selves, the
amount of mischief which is directly
traceable to ignorance. can hardly be
over estimated
How is the human machine to be
kept in proper working order If we
who have, so to speak, the tending"
of is are wholly ignorant of its con
struction2
Many fathers and mothers because
Of a feeling of modesty or delicacy,
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
WARNING TO HoMESTEADERs.

News comes from Washington that
a number of homestead entries have
been cancelled, and the new filings
recognized, because of the failure on
the part of the original entrees to
show good faith. For instance in a
number of cases, those who had lived
on the land for the required time, and
who had built shacks on the land,
sold those shacks as soon as they
proved up to others who were enter
ing land, and then left for their old
homes, safe in the belief that they
owned the land on which they had
lived for the required time. Others
who knew of this promptly filed on
the land, instituted contest, and in
all such cases the land department
has sustained the contest, and those
who sold their shanties, left the land
and returned to their former home,
are tlndlng out that they had their
hard experience for nothing.
The Argus Leader speaks of this
for the protection of those who have
gone through tie experience of tax
ing a homestead. They have made
sacrifice, and it is pity that they
should fail to make something by it.
But the land department requires
good faith. The homestead laws
contemplate actual settlement. They
were not passed to permit speculation.
1t is true that in times past the en-
forcement of the spirit of the law has
been lax. This is because there was
plenty of land, and no especial con-
troyersy over the possession of any
particular quarter Now it is different.
The public domain is fast disappear.
ing, and the land hunger is keen and
acute. This means that the home
steader must comply rigidly and
technically with the law if he expects
to avoid winning contest against
him, and that the rulings of the de
partment are each year growing more
technical and severe.
If you want to be sure of keeping
your land, see to it that the. shanty
remains, that some one continues to
live on the land, and that the laws
and the rulings of the department. are
complied with. : Argus-Leader.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01

The ruling of the department of
the interiori to the effect that home,
steaders must remain on their claim
after making proof, or suffer cancel
lation of the entry, looks like cheap
horse play when we consider the vast
amount of valuable coal and timber
lands that have been secured from the
government through hook and crook
without SO much as murmer from
the department. By such ruling
the department accomplishes the
greatest harm to the greatest number
and the least good to the government.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01

THE circuit court has rendered a
decis on to the effect that Egan is not
eligible to the office of states attorney
of Minnehaha county. The decision
is in effect that the phrase Learned
in the law" being the mental qualifica-
ton required by the constitution,
means an admission to the bar and a
license to practice in any and all
courts of the state as the only proper
evidence of such metal qualification.
By the recent disbarment of Egan by
the supreme court Egan is denied
this means of proving his mental
qualification. although not even the
supreme court can deny that he does
actually possess the mental fitness.
Egan will appeal to the supreme
court, but it is ten to one shot that
he will find the decision of the lower
court sustained. If Egan can con
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01

IT now seems practiclly certain that
nothing will be done by the present
congress, or the new congress at the
opening session, relative to the postal
banking system. There is much open
opposition in the senate and it is ex-
pected that the monetary commission
will report and ask for further time
promising that recommendation for
several changes in the present system
be made. Together these two forces
will cause a delay in regard to pos
tai savings law.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING.

The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Waters Land q
Loan Company will be held at the
principal office of the company 10 the
city of De Smet, Kingsbury, South
Dakota, on Tuesday, the 18th day of
January, 1909, at 3 o'clock in the af-
terncon for the transaction of such
business as may come before it; and,
also, to amend Section thirty-one of
the Bylaws by striking out the word
January and submitting the word
March, therefor.
Dated at De Smet, South Dakota,
December 10th, 1908.
ID. A. CRAWFORD,
Secretary
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
PRACTICAL EDUCATION FOR SOUTH
DAKOTA BOYS,

Taking up a short course system
of education which has wrought a
transformation in he farming meth
DDS of Iowa and Wisconsin, the South
Dakota state college at Brookings is
Offering to the young men of South
Dakota, especially those on the farms,
an opportunity to obtain practical in
struction
The specially attractive feature of
the short courses is that they are ar
ranged in such way as 10 avoid in
terfering with the work on the farm.
The sons of almost any farmer can take
these short courses and still not be alb
sent from their fathers farm at the
busy seasons. For example, the state
college offers, beginning Jan. 4, a two
weeks course in agriculture, including
live stock, farm crops, poultry and
bees; two weeks course in dairying;
three months course in dairying; a
three months course in horticulture,
and five months course in steam en-
glneering.
The scope of these courses can be
understood from the comprehensive
ness of the two weeks course in agri-
culture. In the ten days required to
take this course, the student is given
instruction i'm live stock breeding,
feeding and judging, corn and grain
grading, cleaning, Judging and selec-
ton; poultry breeding. feeding, finish
ing, selling and Judging; and bee
keeping, management and marketing.
When it is considered that every at
tendant is given the benefit of expert
opinion and careful experience, it can
hardly be understood how the up-to-
date farmers son or young farmer, can.
not afford to ia ke up this brief course,
says the Sioux Falls Press.
That the opportunities to gain prac
tical instruction without sacrafcing
the work at home will be appreciated
10y the young men of South Dakota is
shown by the fact that the pioneer
class in the longer course of the school
of agriculture which opened Nov. Bird
last, consists of fiftyeight students.
In order that the girl of the farm
may not be denied an opportunity to
learn as much of the culinary art as
her more leisurely sisters of town or
city, the state college has arranged a
special twelve weeks course in home
economics. That the knowledge to be
gained from this course will be ser
viceable to all the young women who
take it can be understood from the
fact that the list Of topics includes
cooking, fireless cookery, invalid cook
cry, home nursing, housekeeping,
sewing, art and handicraft, aoricul-
ture, home gardening, dairying, poul-
try culture and bee keeping
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the policy
holders of the De Smet Farmers Nut
ual Fire and Lightning Insurance
Company, of De Smet, will be held
in the City Hall, in the city Of De
Smet, S. d., Tuesday, January 9th,
1909, at 2 2p. m. for the purpose of
electing board Of directors for the
ensuing year. and the transaction of
any other business that may properly
come before the meeting A full at
tendance is earnestly desired.
Dated De Smet, Dec. Fl, 1908.
j. L Van Hook, Pres
g w. LATIN, Secy.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01

A FREAK physician of San Francisco,
proposes in all seriousness that dairy
men be complied to brush the teeth
of the COWS and threat them with an
antseptic wash before the COWS are
MIXED. This scientific gentleman
claims that cows mouth is the
buggiest of all bug infested places
and that the cleansing of the teeth
would make milk far more healthful.
Following the same theory the hens
teeth should be thoroughly cleaned
every morning before she lays an
egg.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
ONE of the congressman says that

ONE OF the congressman says that
the west must consent to free beet
sugar and free hides if it wants tariff
removed from lumber and other
necessities. By all means, "let it
went, The tariff on beet sugar is
something, but Others besides west
erners are interested and have 10 buy
sugar; the tariff on hides is a myth in
so far as it benefits the stock raiser.
We are willing to give up something
and are glad that we are called upon
to give up so little.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
The propos d bill relative to tn

The propos d bill relative to the
state insurance of bank deposits, it is
said, will provide for the insurance of
deposits in only such banks as shall
voluntarily ask for insurance; the bill
will make it optional with the banks.
We believe such bill will be mis-
take. III such bill is introduced it
will have no trouble in becoming a
law as the banks will hardly think it
worth while to oppose it. And, if a
bill of that kind becomes a law, it
will be dead letter; the banks will
stand solidly together and refuse to
ask for the insurance. Such law
was not contemplated during the cam
paign.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01

In an article recently published in
the Worlds Work John d. Rockefell-
er tells how he may best be touched
for donation. But what most in
terests the consuming public is not
how the touch" is worked upon John
for small part of the pocket money
he cannot use, but how did he work
the touch on the public for that bill
lion of dollars
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
THE REV. IRL r. HICKS ALMANAC.

For 1909, ready Nov. Is, 1908, best
ever sent out, beautiful covers in
colors, fine portrait of Prof. Hicks in
colors, all the old features and several
new ones in the book. The best as.
Economical year book and the only
one containing the original ''Hicks
Weather Forecasts. By mail 35c, on
news stands 30c. One copy free with
Word and Works, the best 81, Month
Iy in America. Discounts on almanacs
in quantities. Agents wanted. Word
and Works Pub. Co. 2201 Locust
Street, st. Louis. Mo. Every citiz-n
owes it to himself, to his fellows and
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01

In New York city two men accused
of having stolen six chickens are held
for trial under ST. 10000 bail each In
the same city are several men who
have "benevolently assimilated a
railroad, but the matter is too small
to evenwarrant preliminary hearing.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

flee at Aberdeen, S. D., December 17th.
1908.
Notice is hereby given that Magnus
ber 18th. 1902, made homestead entry
No. 26010, serial No. 0432, for lot !. section
township 109, range 30 west fifth princi-
pal neredian, has filed notice of intention
to make final five year proof, to establish
claim to the land above described, before
the clerk of the circuit court, at De Smet,
S, d., on the 23rd day of january, 1909.
O'Hora, of De Smet. S. d.. Geo. w. Kreck.
low, oldham. s. d.. Ludwig Nelson. De
Smet. S. D.. Frank + Brown, Oldham, S.
KRIBs. Register
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01

railway, and has partially completed
a trolley road between Toledo and
Ann Arbor. Among the directors are
ex- Gov. Andrew Z. Lee, Vermillion,
S. d., and N. A Reese, of Chicago.
Andrew +. Lee will be president of
the new company
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
ANDY LEE is PRESIDENT.

The Ohio Il Michigan Southern
company, with capital Of 100000,
was incorporated at Lansing, Mich,
last week. The company will take
over the Toledo, Ann Arbor 4 Detroit
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
CHARLES W. Observation-Disclosures.

Charles Herrei fourth governor Of South Dakota native Of WIS
a
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-01
Gold Medal Flour at the Farm
er's Elevator, De Smet.
SUMMONS.

SUMMONS.
State of South Dakota, County of Kings
In Circuit Court. Ninth Judicial Circuit.
G. w Froelich, Plaintiff,
G. G. Swafford; Farmers Il Merchants
Bank, q corporation: Frank E. Biaisdel
Ruth A. Parks; George terneding, Couf
ty of kingSbury, South Dakota; Hiiu
Calkins; Effie Everett Fitzgerald. form
ly Effie Everett Calkins, LueliaS 8. Sope'
formerly Flora Calkius; Jennie Caikii
Doyle; Luana Calkins; Sherwood Ca
kins and Luana F. Cartwright, former
ly Luana +. Caikins, Defendants.
The state of South Dakota TO the above
named defendants. greeting:
You and each of you are hereby sum-
above entitled action TO answer the com
plant of the plaintiff, a copy of which
complaint Ia hereto attached and fs here
copy Of your answer to said complaint np
on the scriber al his offices in the Hollis
ter-Beveridge Buildingon Ninth Street In
the y city Of siouS Falls n the county q
within thirty days after the service OF
this summons upon you exclusive ot the
day of such service; and you are here
by notified that Ii you fail TO appear in
said action, and to oanswer the conpainto of
the plaintiff within the time aforesaid. the
plaintiff will appiyto the court for rthe relief
demanded in the complaint.
Dated this 9th day ot October, 1908.
u. s. g. CHERRY.
Attorney for Plaintiff. Sioux Falls.
To the defendants above named and ench
of them:
You will please take notice that the
complaint in the above entitled action
was filed in the Office of the clerk of the
circuit court within and for the county Of
kingsbury, in the Ninth Judicial Circuis
in the state of South Dakota at the city
of De Srnet. in the said county of Kings
bury on the 18TH day of October. 1905
u. S. G.. CHERRY,
Attorney for Plaintiff. Sioux Falls, Min
nehaha county, South Dakota.