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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20
1AlL klILs SPECTATOR.

Cincinnati. Ohio. Aug. 14.--wnliam
Bailey Altman, a travelling salesman
Of this city, while attending a ball
game at Moorehead. Ky. was struck
on the chest by a foul ball and died
shortly afterward.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20

~ The Jewish Advocate has this tc
say as to the recent turf victory OF
Esron de Rothschild: Baron Maurice
de Rothschild. whose horse won the
Grand Priz al the French derby, in
cidentally gathered In the sum OF $751;
900 as his share OF the winnings. The
poor man no doubt needs the money
a fact hat explains his violation OF
the ethical law against gambling"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20

Lucerne Is to be the sole airship
station for Switzerland, and a station
house is to be erected at a cost OF
roo. 900 francs. 1t is hoped soon to
establish regular communication be-
tween this town and Friedrichshafen.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20
USES $500 GOLD BRICK
FOR PAPER WEIGHT

Rapid City, S. D., Aug. Il
President James HALEY, of the
First National bank, is utilizing
a paper weight of a unique char
acter. 1t is a gold brick worth
about $500 and representing a
five days run of a 10-stamp mill
on the Standby mine. The mine
is owned by a company which
is arranging to install a Co.
stamp mill to replace the pres
ent 10-stamp mill.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20
LIFE CUT OUT
BY CUTTER BAR
Literally Cut to Pieces While
Operating Binder in Harv-
est Field.

Aberdeen. S. D.. Aug. 10.-Simok
Luckens, aged Il years, a farm hand
employed by James Larson, near here.
was caught by a cutter bar on a.
binder he was driving, and literally cut
to pieces. He lived but three hours.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20

After i i0nx study Of school children
~ HArf1an fsads nothing TO how
<hat good schooling hurts chtidren's
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20

Washington. Aug. 13.-work has
been found for 5000 persons during the
past six weeks through the inforfna-
tion division OF the department OF COM
merce and labor. Most OF them have
gone to the wheat fields OF the North
west. although, according TO a state
ment made by the department. labor Is
much in demand in factories as well as
on the farm.
ruling by Assistant Secretary McHarg
Il confined in Its operations ia un-
skilled labor. the labor organizations
having protested against the activity
on the part OF the government looking
g the employment Of skilled Iakor.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20

BAL-IMORE-Mrs. Jane Germon,
the aged actress, died here yesterday OF
ailments incident to old age. She was
So wears old IND retired from the stage
eight or 10 years g Mrs. Germon
was born In New Orleans In 1921. Her
ather was william Anderson. an actor
of note, and her. mother was Euphemia
Jefferson. a daughter OF the first Jo-
seph Jefferson. Her first appearance on
the stage was at the age OF 7 years.
taking the chifd's part In William
Tell" with Edwin Forrest as the star.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20
GIRLS SUDDEN DEATH
REMAINS A MYSTERY

C~enterville, s. d., Aug. 1.-THE sud
den death of Miss Ella Morse, who was
keeping house for her father on a
farm near vermillion, seems to be
shire uded in mystery. Miss Morse was
found dead in bed yesterday morn
ing. She IA about 20 years old and
apparently In her usual health when
she retired the night before.
The Morse family lived in this city
for several years. The mother and
father. having some domestic trouble,
separated a few years ago. Mrs. Morse,
the girls mother, still resides here.
and the funeral will take place in
this city.
Hudson, s. d., iIg. 12.-Peter Vase
mar. 5r., who lives on the Cove farm
in Eden township. was setting a hay
stacker on Friday afternoon. His two
younger o n We're playing about him,
and while Mr.. Wassenaar was driving
a stake. Frank. q lad of 8. IN some way
got his hand on the stake and his IA
ther being unable to stop the blow OF
the descending 16-pound post maui. hi
the little fellow On the hand, smashing
the Ter In bad shape. Immediate
medical attention saved the boys hand
but II will be crippled 10 some extent
The father was almost frantic. blaming
himself for the accident. which was
entirely unavoidable.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20
PERMANENT SURVEY
FOR lNTERURBAN

C~enterville, s. d., Aug. 1.-The Sioux
City and Bijou Hills interurban rail-
road project is not dead. according to
latest developments. Mr.. Graves, Of
Bijou Hills, the main factor in the en-
terprise, was in this city Friday and
Saturday and talked very encouraging
ly. Mr.. Graves was accompanied by a
civil engineer and right of way man
from Minneapolis, and 1t was given out
that active work would begin on the
survey this week, from each end of the
proposed line. Mr.. Graves stated that
the survey contract had been closed
with a Cleveland firm.
The route is practically settled from
Bijou Hills to Ce~nterville. From this
city through Union county, some
changes may be made from the origi-
nal plan. Elk Point Is anxious to Sc
cure the line and may yet win out.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20

Mother Eve was the original discov-y
erer OF the curiosity germ
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20

After lying at the bottom of the sea
undisturbed for a century and a half
pne OF the guns of III. M. s. Families.
which was wrecked near Bolt Tail, on
the south coast of Devon, has been re-
covered. One side of the weapon has
been worn away with the action of
pebbles and shingle washed over 1t by
the tide to such an extent, says the
London Chronicle, that at the muzzle
the thickness of iron is very little, and
for it's whole length the metal has the
appearance OF being gradually filed
away. Even the trunnions which orig
finally took It's weight on the gun car
riage, have been worn to spikes.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20

A west side man whose youngest child
attempted to blow himself UP on the
Fourth Of July has just settled a pc
culiar claim for damages. The child's
clothes caught fire in the street and he
was saved from serious injury by the
nimble wit of a man who soused him
into a convenient barrel OF liquid. A
week later the father got a bin for $40,
which represented the cost OF a barrel
of ruined lemonade into which the
youngster had been plunged. The
father was willing to pay several times
$50 for the preservation Of his SON.,
but TO place that valuation on IA barrel
Of street lemonade struck him as a bit
OF unconscious but delightful satire.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20
FORMER NEWSPAPER MAN
GETS A POSTOFFIcE

Trip. s. D., Aug. Ill. G. Fox,
formerly editor OF the Ledger, has been
appointed postmaster to succeed John
McClain. deceased.
Tramps broke into the f.. III. Hirsch
hardware store here Friday night ard
ook all the razors, knives and what
other stuff they wanted. They have
not been apprehended.
Cottonwood. S. ID, Aug. 9.-The busi-
ness men here have raised $1,000 with
which to celebrate their second ami
verxary.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-20
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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06
$3.50 Per Year Strictly In Advance
Sample Copy Free. Advertising Rates Ar
Furnished on Application.
WdtertOWn Wis. Friday, August
TELEPHONE EARNINGS

AS per its published report, the
capital stock of the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co., including
the Associated Operating Compan-
les in the United States and Can
ada, and the Western Telephone
and Telegraph Company is $627,-
700, 900 and apart from this, the
interest bearing obligations, S342,-
$4,000, making a grand total of
$97o,o3o, 200.
OF this the public owns $36I,-
ego; 300 of the capital stock and
S23o,838, 900 of the interest bear
ing obligations, making a total of
S592,475, 400.
The dividends declared by the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company in 1908 amounted to
$6,443,344.34; and in 1909, ST.
I23,9I5.88.
The total earnings of the com
pany last year were $I5,2I2, 1892. SO
and the expenses $I,226, o53 "a,
leaving the earnings practically
SI4, 900, 900.
The interest charges amounted
to $4,000, 523 81, leaving a net
balance of $40, 900, 900 of which as
stated above, something over ST.
900, 900 was declared in dividends,
leaving a balance in the treasury
for the year of So, 900. 900.
The gross earnings Of the associ-
alton operating companies for 1900
in round figures were $54, 900, 900,
the operating expenses were $780,
600, 900, the taxes 81, 900, 900,
leaving a balance Of $50 900, 900.
According to the system of book
keeping followed by the company,
ST., 900, 900 out of the S32, 200, 900
were set apart for maintenance and
appreciation and still there was a
net balance af $I4, 683 $40.
And still we are told by the Bell
Telephone Company that the exor-
bitant charges maintained are
necessary in order to avoid loss.
SI5,ooo,o 900 by that branch
known as the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, and only
81 ,ooo,oo for expenses and S54,
900, 900 by the associated compan-
les and only $40, ZOO, 900 for ex-
penses, making a total for both Of
500, 900, 900 and a net earning of
$40, 900, 900 and this, after the
taxes are paid.
Isn't it about time that Presi-
dent Burt made another misleading
report-and is it not about time,
that those who grant franchises to
telephone and telegraph companies
determined by legislation action,
as to the amount the people should
be 70 bbed by exorbiant charges?
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06
WAS ALL A BLUFF

Both branches of congress have
agreed upon tariff bill and fixed
the rates. The revision is down
ward to some extent, but not to
the degree that the consumers of
this country had a right to expect
and the writer opines, that in due
time the republican party will pay
the penalty for its extreme friend
ship Tor the trusts and special in
tereSts of the country. Hides, it
is true, have been placed on the
tree list and the duty on leather
reduced, but the public will derise
no benefit until after the lapse of
two years. Pulp has been placed
on the free list, but a duty of 1918
per ton IS placed on print paper
free pulp for the benefit of the
paper manufacturer and a duty
on print paper to also help the poor
paper maker at the expense of the
publisher who will probably be
grateful for the discrimination
Then to fool the farmer whom they
suppose does not read and think,
duties are placed on the products
of the farms in order to let him
down easy. 25 cents a bushel
on wheat when we do not raise
enough for home consumption and
wheat corners made possible by
sharks who rob the consumer in
Guiding the farmer. If wheat was
on the free list corners on the
cereal would be impossible and one
man could not make millions of
dollars by robbing every man who
purchases loaf of bread. There
were some good men in congress
who worked for the people, but,
they were in the minority. This
state had few whom the people
should continue to honor.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06

is not above revenge. There is a
day of reckoning coming, when we
shall have less Cannon and those
friendly to the people have an
inning.
Wagner, the Milwaukee self
styled detective, who tried to help
out the Senate investigating COM
mittee last winter by swearing to
"a lot of falsehoods in order to
smirch several politicians, was con-
vlcted of perjury last week at Mad
ison and the Judge gave him three
years in the state penitentiary to
think how grateful that committee
were to him. If a few more had
been tried and convicted, it would
have been good thing for the state.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06

understanding unless it be that
ours is a government where con-
slant fighting is required and the
lawyer has demonstrated his ability
IN that direction.
There is not much doubt but
what if farmers dominated every
law-making body in the United
States, there would be more laws
In favor of the farmer.
If men who work in the shops
and mills, the mines and factroies,
made the laws Of this country, or
Of any country, these laws would
be more favorable than they now
are to the needs or imagined needs
Of those who toll in these places.
If the laws were made by minis
tiers of the gospel as they were
once made, they would be sort of
one-sided laws, largely intended
to vest in the church greater power
and wider authority and yield to
men, less liberty in spiritual affairs
as we'll as in civic affairs.
If our laws were made by doctors
the medical profession would not
be cramped by legal restrictions
placed upon it.
Lawyers, like farmers, mechap-
les, ministers and doctors, are just
plain, ordinary, every day human
beings, possessed of the same
weaknesses, compelled by the same
selfshness, and they, from the
standpoint of that human nature,
are not to be blamed if the laws on
the statute books of the United
States and of every state in the
United States are comfortable to
the requirements of those who fol-
low the legal calling.
In some way, for some reason.
the people have gotten it into their
heads that it requires a lawyer to
make laws and it is a difficult thing
to disturb that belief
This is more true of the East
than the West and is more true of
all old countries that have no aris-
toCraCy than it is Of new countries.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06
WHAT 1T TEACHES

The labor strikes this summer
furnishes reason for serious rehec-
ton and thought, and the query
presents itself: Is American labor
protected? The 500 men who were
involved IN the recent strike at
kenosha were Italians, Hungar-
ians, Savonians and Lithurians,
who were no doubt brought to this
country because their labor could
be secured at a much less wages
than our American labor, for they
live half cheaper than the intelli-
gent, self respecting home laborer,
artisan and mechanic, composed of
Americans, the term being used in
It's broader sense and application.
The same is true of the strikers at
Pittsburg, Penn, it being the
cheap imported labor from central
Europe, who do not become citi-
zens of this country and have no in
terests in its moral, social educa-
tional nor political welfare and ad-
vancement While the writer does
not condemn them for insisting
upon something better than starva-
ton wages, he does condemn the
men who are responsible for their
being here, that they may double
their profit at the expense of labor.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06
THE LAW AND LAWYERS

To the man who loves or desires
a public job, the legal profession
holds out more inducement than
any other. In this country today,
every public department is practic-
ally run by lawyers.
Beginning at Washington, they
predominant on down through every
state, county and municipal body,
and the chances are that it will
continue to be this way.
Just why it is SO, is not easy of
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06

Much has been said and published
relative to protecting our indus
tries. that better wages may be
paid the American laborers. 1t
was all lie, for such industries
buy labor in the cheapest market
and protection does not protect the
labofing class and the sooner they
realize it the better it will be for
them,
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

It's nip and Tucker in tn,
race for Governor of Virginia.
Does Mr.. Taft imagine that tn,
way to tame the tariff hogs is t.
feed the beasts husks."
1t will be a rare joke on Tam
many if Bingham has been fired as
police Commissioner only to take
his place as mayor.
No electric fan like the northwes
wind.
In June, 1908, only 81 900 imi
grants landed in America, but las
month over s., 900 arrived. For
eign Iaborers want a slice of Uncle
Sans prosperity.
]. ] Hill the great railway pres
ident predicts prosperity with {
confidence that fears no farebacks
Debating societies might throw
some light on the question O.
whether an overcrowded city is
worse than an overcrowded excur
sion.
What a pity "Sockless Jerry
Simpson is not alive in Congress
today. How he would enjoy part
icipation in the schedule of hosiery
Curiously enough, it seems in
variably to be the people who dc
not get it that see the faint on Mr.
Rockefeller's money SO conspic.
ously.
The jokers in the tariff pack die
not count against the four ace:
in the White House hand.
Persia will have to work Over
time now to make up for its los
sleep.
Some well meaning Jerseyites
still insist on regarding Atlantic
City as a purely local institution
instead Of national playground.
Prosperity is predicted on al
sides. 1t looks as if there were
to be a good working basis for ar
income tax on net earnings.
It is said that Mr.. AIdrich nevel
smiles when discussing the tariff
Does anybody?
The man who got stage-fright
in an airship vindicates the Wright
brothers in their absolute refusa
to be influenced by their audiences
The new Shah of Persia is such
tiny little chap" notes a con.
temporary. The Persians have
learned, however, that little Shah
goes long way.
1t is denied that Mr.. Rockefeller
ever said he expects to live to the
age of 100. Maybe he did not say
it, but it would be just like him tc
do it, nevertheless and notwith-
standing.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06
PROMINENT MAN CALLED

Judge S. w. Lamoreux, one of
the leading citizens of Beaver Dam
and the-state, passed away yester-
day afternoon at his home in the
city of Beaver Dam after a prolong-
ed illness. The deceased was a
prominent figure in the democratic
party for many years and during
the Cleveland administration was
commissioner of the general land
office at Washington.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06
Book on North Pacific Coast By
Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway.

Are you contemplating trip to the
Pacific Northwest or to the AIaska-Yukon-
Pacific exposition at Seattle? If so, call
or send for new book, North Pacific
Coast Country" issued by this railway.
1t will help you in planning your trip.
FREE-if you call. MAILED for four
cents postage.
$62 round trip from Chicago to Seattle,
Tacoma, Spokane, Portland, Victoria,
Vancouver, Butte and other points daily
until September 30. Choice of routes.
Stop-Overs. Return limit October 81.
". ". Winton, District Passenger Agent,
Madison, Wis. Aug. Ga
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06
wisconsin Inventors

The following patents were issued this
week to Wisconsin inventors reported by
D. SWIFT & Co., Washington D. c.
H. Knudsen, Madison, Gas-stOve at
tachnent, ". A. COneman, Cudahay;
Vehicle tire, E. ]. Lombard, Hudson,
Curtain-fastener, j. StevisOn, Platteville,
Valve.
Copies of any of the above patents will
be sent to any of our readers upon the
receipt Of ten cents by D. SWIFT & Co.,
Washington D. c., our special patent
correspondents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Son Of Hetty Green is In the East For
the Purpose Of Buying Him.
self a Flying
Machine.
Green Only Weighs Three Hundred
Pounds But Believes Hescan V
Fall OFF Some If he Owns IS
Aeroplane. -

NEW YORK. Aug. 21.-Edward H.
R. Green, the son of Mrs. Hetty
Green, is in New York to buy an aero
plane. He is at the Waldorf, Astoria,
though he is not registered there.
Mr.. Green who weights in the
neighborhood of 900 pounds, is sin
cerely anxious to buy real flying
machine.
He had talk with Wilbur Wright
when the latter was In New York
Tuesday and he has gone over to
Mineola, l.. l., to see Charles Foster
Willard fly the Curtiss machine.
When he has compared the qualities
of the rival craft he will make his
selection.
Mr. Green was the first man in
Texas to have an automobile. He
was also the first man in Texas to
have luxuriously appointed, modern
ocean-going yacht. and he had the
first private palace car that was the
individual property of resident OF
Texas.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
A STEAMBOAT
WAS DESTROYED
The Fred Swain Took Fire on the
Peoria River and Was Complete
Iy Destroyed by the
Flames.
ALL PASSENGERS SAVED
Blaze Broke Out in Mid Stream and
the Boat Was Beached Near
Shore and All Got
to Land.
ALL PASSENGERS SAVED

PEORIA, Ill, August 21.-Forty-five
persons. thirty passengers and crew
of fifteen, had miraculous escapes
from death when the steamer FRED
Swain of the Peoria and La sale
Packet. Company caught Are In mid
stream and was beached near the vii
lage of Averyville two miles north OF
Peoria. The vessel was grounded In
a. patch of willows 100 yards from
shore and by the heroic work of the
crew, male passengers and nearby
fishermen not life was lost. Two
men were injured, Engineer Cassider
of Paducah, KY, was severely burned
about the head and body and Charles
Reichberger of Peoria, deck hand,
had his right arm broken. The loss on
the vessel is $4,000. The passengers
lost all their personal belongings.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
FLY MACHINE
is WONDER
A New Invention Which is Said to Do
tn Work by Capturing the Bugs
by Wholesale.

KANSAS CITY, Aug. Pr. e. Ha-
ward has invented machine which
is said to he wonder 70. the exter-
mination of flies. His invention con-
sists of cylinder something like a
water wheel mounted on box con-
tanning clockwork to turn it. Above
the box is wire cage with an open
ing in the bottom affording passage
through to the cage above. A little
sugar spread on the wheel completes
the arrangement for the reception and
entertainment Of Mr.. FL. He alights
on the wheel, the wheel turns, the
fly turns with it aid before ho knows
it he finds himself in the box, from
which there is no exit except to the
cage. When the cage is full, Harvard
plunges it into pail of gasoline and
the flies perish as the Egyptian host
perished in the waters of the Red
Sea. Harvard says his machine will
catch 10000 flies an hour.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
THE PRESIDENTS
NEW WAIST LINE
Has Been Reduced Seven inches and
He Has Also a Number Of
Pounds.

BEVERLY Aug. 21,-It is learned
that DR.. Charles Barker. the masscur
has succeeded in reducing Taft.
waist line seven. inches. The number
OF pounds eliminated ic unknown Of
ficially but the president appears to
tip the scales at about three hundred
and eight or ten He weighed three
hundred and twenty-six when he hired
Barker.
Taft's splendid health IS shown by
the fact that he is able to lose weight
without weakening 1t is stated that
he is stronger bv TWENTY-FIVE per cent
than when he came A man attached
to the establishment said lone
may have an idea the hard physical
work the president performs daily
but not one in a thousand would show
the perseverance, eve If = had the
strength to undergo What Taft does
Physical training is practically con
tinuore from eight ir the morning
until three In the afternoon