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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
OVER 10000 CEASE WORK.
Standard Oil Employees Pay Tribute t.
Rogers.

January I'll employees IE0y rlDut 10
Rogers.
The funeral Of Henry H. Rogers,
president of the Amalgamated Copper
company and active head Of the
Standard Oil company, Friday at New
York brought together many men
prominent in the business and financial
districts Of this city. Although the
attendance a the services in the
Church Of the Messiah at 10 q. m. was
limited to intimate business associates
and personal friends, these included
SO many Of the leaders Of the New
York business and financial world that
their absence from their usual actiyi-
ties had a notable effect upon the bust
ness Of the financial district. Through
out the country wherever the Standard
Oil company had a station or a branch
there was a pause during the hours Of
the funeral to mark the passing of the
first vice president OF the company and
one Of the men who had helped ma
terially to make it a great organization.
Orders had zee issued that all opera
lions OF the company a between
10 and IL o'clock, M these applied
to every one OF the $1,000 employees
a condition which had not existed in
the giant corporation since its founda-
ton more than thirty-five years ago.
lTt8 H#A af EaHs-Et
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
CIRCUIT COURT IN SESSION.
Regular May Term Begins at SturGis
Two Murder Cases Up.

Two Murder Cases Up.
The regular May term term Of cir
cult court was convened at Sturgis
Tuesday, Judge Rice presiding. The
grand jury having been summoned,
they were charged. They will consid-
err the gambling charges at Sturgis.
The most important matters coming
up will be the two murder cases. Os-
car Jacobs was arraigned, charged
with the murder of Elba Roberts. His
attorneys waived time and pleaded not
guilty. The case was then set for trial
May 81 before Judge Jones, of Sioux
Falls, who presides, having exchanged
circuits with Judge Rice for the pur-
pose of the trial of Mrs. Kaufman.
About thirty witnesses have been sub
poenaed by the state. Frank Sears,
OF Webster. and Harry P. Atwater, of
Sturgis, are the defendants attorneys.
Emerson Eichler is charged with
the murder of Henry Bohnsack at
Elm Springs last November. Eichler
and Bohnsack We're brotherS-in-law.
During an alteration between Eich-
Ter and Fred BohnSack, a brother of
the deceased, Eichler grabbed a gun
and it was discharged, the charge en-
tering the left breast of the deceased.
maker. The case will be on trial May
"a. A. K. Gardner, of Huron, has
been employed to assist States Attor-
ncy Mick. Eichler is being defended
by Harry p. Atwater, of Sturgis.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
.MosEs CALLED FIRST STRIKE"
Union Man Urges Churches to Sup
port C-.rse of Unions.

Moses called the first strike IN the
brick yards of Egypt and Aaron was
the first business agent. 1t was a sue,
cess. We deplore the necessity OF
strikes and boycotts, but you must re-
member that the blacklist preceded
the strike, and that min times out OF
ten strikes are justifiable.'
This was part of the argument ad-
duced in an address in Chicago by
James w. Kline, general president Oh
International Brotherhood Of Black
smiths and Helpers, in the Western
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church,
to prove that churches should support
labor unions. He praised the Metho-
dist church for it's recognition OF the
trade unions, and criticised it for up
holding the man who desired to re-
main outside of the union.
The church must get off the fence
he said. "If unions are good for some
wageearners. they are good for all
1t is the unions which have made
wages good, and the ~nOn-union men
have shared in his benefit without
paying for it in any way"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
FEARS A CRISIS
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS FRAUGHT
WITH MUCH ANXIETY.
iOne OF Presidents First Acts Was to
Cancel NagoOn's Proposal for Loan
az $4,000, OOO-Gusinets Checked In
Island rs Result Of Shortage.

Financial problems constitute the
gravest feature Of anxiety on the part
Of the Cuban government, and with
the protracted delay in the presenta-
ton OF the budget for the coming
year the general feeling Of uncertain
ysand lack of confidence becomes ac-
centuated. How the government, in
view OF its enormously increasing ex-
penses, due IN great measure to the
cost CT equipment. and pay OF the new
military, the cost of the national legis-
Nature and increased number OF civil
employees arising from political press
ure for offices, will meet it's obligations
out of the ordinary sources OF reve-
nue. Is asked on all sides.
While there is no doubt hat Presi-
dent Gomez is fully alive to the seri-
business OF the situation and is doing
auctions in the cost Of all departments,
1t is feared that political exigencies
viii compel him to refrain in insisting
upon retrenchment OF the scale that
Is believed to be absolutely necessary.
Gov. aMagoon's budget for the cur
rent fiscal year ending on June 80 was
3~24,25O,000, and the estimate OF v
nue. Z little more than $27,000,00O.
Careful estimates OF the revenues for
the, coming year indicate a total of
probably not more thar $4,000, ex-
elusive OF the taxes available for the
payment Of the interest and sinking
fund Of the 5000, 900 loan for the
payment Of the army of the revolu-
ton. The sources Of revenue applica-
BILE to this purpose always ave been
and continue to be ample, with a con-
siderable surplus. Estimates OF the
expenses OF the government for the
coming rear place the total at not less
than $40, 900. 900. and by some author
tiles as high as 100000, 900, Indicating
under the most favorable conditions a
very serious deficit.
President Gomez is opposed to bur-
dening the country with an additional
issue OF bonds and one OF his first acts
was to decide against the issue Of the
loan OF SIS, 900, 900 authorized by Gov.
Magoon to meet the cost Of the con-
tracts for the sewering and paying of
Havana and the waterworks OF Glen.
fuegoes.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
FACE DEATH IN FIRE.
MANY Persona Injured in . Chicago
Blaze.

Twenty or more persons wer~ IN
iured, some Of them seriously, ny
dropping from second-story
in a fire starting from a gas eHplo-
| sion. which destroyed the Toledo ha's'
| Sixty-ffth street and Minerva avenue
at Chicago Thursday.
The first explosion occurred IN the
basement n was Flowed by others
in various parts of the building. frames
burst forth in several quarters anu
| halls and stairways became chokeo
| with flames and smoke. Those in the
| building were thrown into a panic.
Mrs. E. c. Updegraff, who occupied
q fiat on the second floor, rushed TO a
| window holding her 4-year-old paoy
in her arms. Her screams attracted
a crowd, who cried to her to thro"
the child and it would be caught. Mrs.
J%pdegraff, leaning far out OF the WIN
dow, dropped her boy, who fell salely
into a dozen upstretched arms. MIS-
Updegraff herself hen climbed out ana
after hanging to the ledge dropped
She was seriously injured and taken TO
a hospital.
MIS-. "A. EllItloIt, IL III wv
ant, also was injured by jumping from
a second-story window. She lived on
the third floor, but escaped to the sec
ond. where further progress was cut
off by flames and smoke. From thls
floor she jumped and was badly hurt.
Mrs. c. Ballard, said to be deaf and
dumb, was in her fiat on the fourth
floor when the fire broke out. She was
assisted to safety by other occupants.
John Miller, the %janitor, who was
in the basement, was severely burned
by the first explosion and was taken to
u hospital.
Mrs. Catherine Garmody escaped
through the hall and was severely
burned She and an eldely oman
whose name could not be learned and
who jumped from a ~second-story WIN
dow, were taken to hospitals.
Among those who escaped was a
Mrs. Hern, who rushed into the street
carrying her parrot, and hen real
lied that she had forgotten her moth
err, 50 years old. Mrs. Hern rushed
back into the flames, but tainted be-
fore she had gone far. Meanwhile her
mother a reached the lower floor
and both women were rescued by a
neighbor.
The explosions which followed that
in the basement blew out nearly every
window in the building, and within
half an hour of the first explosion the
entire building was a mass of flames.
Firemen were unable to check the
fire and some of them narrowly es'
capped when two of the walls fell.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
FOUR ACCIDENTS IN DAkOTA.
Two Result i'm the Deaths of small
Children.

-Four South Dakota children and
youths at widely separated points III
the state have, during the past few
DAYS, been victims of accidents which
resulted in two deaths and the serious
injury of the other two victims.
At Tyndall the infant daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ruchta was
drowned in a pail Of water. The chlld
is supposed to nave fallen into the pan
while playing around it. When found
it was wedged head first in the pail
with the water around It's face. me
child was less than 2 years Did.
While lighting a lamp the 1-year-
old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Leo La barge.
residing on a homestead southeast OF
the town of Reliance. Lyman county
received burns which caused his death
after suffering terribly for an hour or
more. The father and mother were
temporarily absent from the house at
the time. The unfortunate boys cloth
ing was entirely burned off and his
body was burned from head to feet.
ALDER Richter, the 14-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Richter, living
near Hartford. while operating a disc
harrow, was thrown from the machine,
which collided with one of his legs
breaking both bones. So.
Elijah Parker, the young son or MI.
and Mrs. Elijah Parker, who reside
near Hazel, while unhitching his team
in the field, had an experience when
nearly cost him his life. All that stood
between him and eternity was the for
tunate breaking of a leather strap. He
became entangled in n OF the lines
and the sudden whirling of the horses
caused the line to become wound
around the lower part of n of his
legs. The horses at this j%uncture be-
came frightened and ran away, drag
ging the boy some distance, when he
was released by the line breaking I'M
der the strain. Had the line not brok-
Ell he would have been dragged to
death.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
HELMS Is A
Frisco Officer Takes Stand in Calhoun
Trial.

Frisco Officer Takes Stand in Calhoun
Trial.
Patrick Calhoun's trial at San Fran
cisco on a bribery charge ended the
most important week es its Ave
months session Friday with the ad-
journment OF court.
Rudolph Spreckels, who flnanced the
prosecution, and Detective John Helms
alternated as witnesses Friday, and 1t
was evident that a crisis in the case
had been reached. Interest was sus-
tanned until a late hour in the after
noon, when Assistant District Attorney
Heney, ignoring two restraining riders
issued by a court of similar jurisdic-
tion, announced that he would ask
Judge LawIor's permission to open
sealed packages seized In the aid upon
the offices Of william M. Abbott, gen
eral cclnsel for the United railroads,
and alleged to contain documents stol-
en- from the office of William ]. Burns,
head OF the prosecutions corps of spe-
cial detectives. Arguments upon this
issue were deferred until Monday,
when the prosecution will attempt to
support the charges made by Detec-
tive Helms against Abbott, under
whose direction he claims to have OPP
Grated.
One of the lines of probable inquiry
was Indicated when Helms. after testi-
tying tina he knew Luther Brown, for
uier partner of Earl Rogers, said:
Abbott and Brown met ne at the
steamer landing on the day I left the
city, after quitting the service Of the
United railroads. Abbott asked me
what I knew about the dynamiting.
What dynamiting. inquired Heney.
1.-THE dynamiting of G~allagher's
home" said Helms. referring to the
blowing up in Oakland last spring Of
the home of former Supervisor James
L. Gallagher.
Helms declared several offers had
been made to prevent his appearance
as a witness in the Calhoun trial. Since
his arrival in this city, he declared, a
plot had been laid in the office of w.
IT. Melton, a prominent attorney, to
trap him in a conversation over the
telephone.
The testimony followed an inquiry
by Mr.. Rogers, who asked the witness
IL he knew that a gr%aphophone had
been attached to the telephone while
he was speaking from the other end
OF the line.
A dramatic outburst occurred when
Helms charged that Abbott had once
expressed to him a wish hat someone
would shoot Heney, and that Stanley
congratulated him on his performance
in following Burns.
the counsel table and in a voice trem-
bling wiGh anger told Helms h a he
was lying k a dog and p%erjuring
himself" He then stepped to his
feet and defied the attorney to make
good his charge.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
BIG STORES SHARES FOR YOUNG
Drug Stores as Trysting Places Also
Censured by Juvenile Court.

The influence of department store
waiting rooms, drug store trystlng
places, and sensational trials were de-
plored and censured at the semi-annual
gathering of the members, friends and
guests of the juvenile court committee
in Chicago. Department store, accord
ing to the various reports of members
Of the organization, and especially that
of Supt. Harry E. Smoot, are part1cu-
larly baneful for young girls who are
out of work unless they are chaper-
oned. Drug stores, where girls go to
meet young men or telephone, were de-
clared to be equally dangerous. Eft
forts to remedy these conditions, Mr..
Smoot said in his report, are now be-
ing made by two officers, also depart
ment store owners, whose attention
has been called to the evils by the
committee.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
MUCH MARRIED PAIR WE'D.
Brides Latest Venture Her Tenth
The Groom Only One Behind.

Brides Latest Venture Her Tenth
The Groom Only One Behind.
Mrs. Polly Weed Baker, aged 81, re-
siding at Newburg, Ind, and Simon
Shippertt, aged 80, Of Burlington,
Iowa, were married at Evansville. This
is the tenth marriage of the bride and
her ninth husband. She was married
twice to one of her husbands. Mrs.
S%hippertt says she is happy in her
last marriage, and that she thinks
more Of her new husband than any or
the others. Several Of her husbands
were divorced from her. Two Of them
died. One committed suicide. Mrs.
Shippertt met her present husband two
years ago, or shortly after she obtain
ed a divorce from her last husband, a
man named Baker. The woman IS a
native of Indiana, and says if her new
husband should die she would proba'
bly, marry again in case she could get
any one to have her.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS
DUAL CRIME AT MITCHELL.
W. C. Gray Kills sister and Then Ends
Own Life,

Own Life.
Subscribing his sister. Miss Edith
GRAY, aged 40 years, to a rafter in the
attic bed room with a stout piece or
cloth. w. G.. Gray, aged As, Shot her
in the ear and instantly killed her.
Gray then turned the gun on himself.
the bullet taking effect behind the
ear, and ended his life. The parties
lived in Mitchell on the south side of
town in a small house, and with them
we're living three children of the man.
Neighbors living in the immediate vi
unity of the house have been COM
planning of the immoral life that Gray
and his sister have been leading for
the past four years, the woman being
in a delicate condition before being
killed.
A complaint was lodged with the
officers and late Tuesday afternoon
Sheriff Plotner and States Attorney
Herbert went over to the residence to
max an investigation. Gray was
blowing the lot near the house n
when he saw the officers approaching
he went to the house. When they
asked TO see his sister Gray refused to
permit them to enter the house. The
officers came back to the city to secure
a warrant for their arrest on the
charge of incest, and sent another OF
fiCer over there to Wtach the house.
The officer had barely reached the
place when he heard two shots fired in
the house. Going in, he found the
woman hanging to the rafter and the
mar lying on the bed, both of whom
were dead. There were evidences of
Il struggle on the part of the woman.
The supposition is that, having been
! IiSrnyerp1 in fhpfr crime and that
an arrest meant exposure and a term
in the penitcntiary, they resolved to
die. The woman was not hanged with
the idea of suspending animation in
that way, for the cloth did not press
ON her throat.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
sugar trust Paw. Einc,.

The American Sugar Refining Com
pany, at New York, paid to the Fed
eral Government $S96,397 in settle
ment of the verdict recently obtained
for false weighing of imported sugar
ut the Brooklyn docks of tie Havemey-
er 4 Elder refinery, and at the same
time withdrew it's protest against the
payment of ~s1,23a.0sS previously paid
to the collector as reliquidation of
duties on sugar since 1901. The total
amount thus paid to the Government
is $2,269, 1897.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
8 TO IS YEARS IS
SENTENCE FOR HAMS.
Captain Convicted of Killing w. e
Annis Gets Indeterminate
Term in Prison.
JUDGE DENIES A NEW TRIAL
Defendant Seems Overcome by
Courts Words and Father and 3
Brother Deeply Affected. !.i

Capt. Peter c.. Hams. Jr., U. S. A.,
convicted of ~manslaughter IN the hrst
degree for killing William +. Annls
at the Bayside Yacht Club last Au-
gust, was sentenced Monday by Justice
Garretson in the Supreme Court IN
Flushing. l.. l., to an indeterminate
sentence of not less than eight years,
nor more thar sixteen years, a haro
labor in States prison.
John F. Mcintyre, counsel for the de-
PENDANT, made the usual motion Tor a
new trial IN the ground hat the YER
dict was against the weight or evil
dence and also contrary to law. JUS
tice Garretson denied these motions.
Mr.. Mcintyre then raised the point OF
jurisdiction of the Supreme Court over
the defendant, contendlng that ne hao
never been released from jurisdiction
of the federal government and there
fore the case was not properly before
the court. Mr.. Mcintyre also stated
that DR.. Brush, who had been an ex-
pert witness for the defense, had ex-
amined Capt. Hams since he was con-
victed and found him insane. Justice
Garretson said there was no evidences
to that effect before the court n ne
declined to consider the motion IN re-
gard to jurisdiction. ~
The court clerk then instructed Capt
Hams to come to the bar and proceed
ed to ask him the formal questions put
to a man about to be sentenced. me
prisoner seemed daZed and seemed TO
have some difficulty in understanding
the questions. Lawyers Mcintyre and
Young of the defense stood on either
side of Capt. Hams and assisted him
in answering the questions of the our
clerk. !
Referring to the nature of the case
the court said hat Capt. Hams had
been indicted for murder In the first
degree, the severest crime against so
| ciety, and, although there had been a
great deal of sympathy injected into
the case, the law did not allow a mar.
to punish another for wrong he hail
| suffered or to wreak vengeance on tina
man who had wronged him. :
After Justice Garretson had imposed
the sentence Capt. Hams sat down and
| dropped his head on the table before
! him. He seemed overcome with emo
| ton for a few moments, but soon re-
| covered himself and sat upright, star
| ing at the court. Gen. Hams, the de-
PENDANTS father, and Maj. John Pow.
ers Hams, who were in court, display
| ed much emotion. Immediately after
sentence the prisoners lawyers asked
for a stay of sentence for a few days
to take an appeal. Justice Garretson
said the case would take the usual
course, and gave the defense twenty
four hours in which to file an appeal.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
$1s MAN A SIS, 900 HEIR.
Poor Manager of Pool "ParlOr"
Profits Under Uncle's Will.

Poor Manager of Pool "ParlOr"
Profits Under Uncle's Will.
After a winter of struggle on a a
airy of $12 a week, on which he sup
ported himself and his wife, Walter
r. Pyles, manager of a little billiard
room at Atlantic City, has just Learned
he is heir to SIS 5000 left by his uncle,
DR.. M. D. Pyles, Of Louisville, KY. The
executors have been searching for
Pyles since last November. The elated
young man has started to claim his be-
quest. Pyles left Louisville several
years ago and since that time has been
q wanderer. When the uncle died, rela-
tives knew nothing of young Pyles'
whereabouts. He was found a few
days ago through a letter written
home by his young wife. He won't
run that pool "parlor' any more.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
WOULD TAX IMMIGRANTS.

Senator Overman Proposes to Raise
Millions by Entrance Charge.
g.. Senator Lee S. Overman, of North
Carolina. offered an amendment to the
tariff bill in the Senate by which he
proposes to place a head tax of $12 on
each immigrant coming into the Uni.
ted States. 1T means not only reven.
ue for the treasury" he said, but also
a select class of immigrants and there
fore it protects labor" Mr.. Overman
estimated hat the head tax on aliens
which he proposed would bring to the
government six to ten millions of dol
lars of revenue.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
POSSE KILLS A MURDERER.

Men Who Pursue Wife Slayer In
South Dakota Shot Him Down.
The body of Mrs. William L. Lam
sing was found in the cellar OF her
home in Presho, S. D., the other night,
with her head crushed by a hammer.
The husband was missing and a posse
began a search. After securing the
country all night the men fonnd him;
twenty-five miles north of Presho, in a.
claim shack on the Brule reservation.
Lansing showed fight and was shot
through the chest. He died in a few
hours. Lansing had threatened his
wife and her brother because of d.
vorce proceedings which she had start
ed. He started north at dark after
failing in an attempt to kill his three
children.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
PARIS STRIKE coLLAPsEs.
General Federation Decides to End til,
Sfrp,rCIo

General Federation Decides to End the
Struggle.
Following the vote of the builders
and mason Friday afternoon at Paris
favoring a return to work, the federal
~conaEnitte Of the General Federation OF
Labor decided officially to announce
the end of the strike.
The members OF the committee
agreed that the present movement
was hopeless and in bitter words they
attributed the failure to the leaders
and the agitators. especially NJ. Guer-
ard, secretly Of the railroad employees.
and M. Pataud, secretary Of the cleo
tricians. who they declare had not full
filled their promises to procure erect
i've collaboration at the psychological
ome
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
ENGINE AND CARS IN RIVER.
Ore Train Wrecked on Montana Cen.
trnl Road,

An ore train on the Montana Gen.
trail division OF the Great Northern
va wrecked Sunday at a point be-
tween Helena and Great Falls. Mont,
and eighteen cars OF ore were precipi-
tAtsd into the Missouri river. Brake
man Rogers was killed and Engineer
Sieben seriously injured.
Three other members af the train
crew We're more or less seriously hurt.
Al the place OF the accident the Mis-
souri, river runs beside the track. The
river has been rising for the past few
days and softened the roadbed. There
were no visible signs OF weakening,
but when the train struck the soft
place in the road bed the engine
plunged into the river, taking eighteen
ears after It. The engine now lies at
the bottom OF the river bed. complete
~ submerged. and the cars r part
" covered. Following closely behind
the freight was the regular passenger
train from Helena, but It was stopped
In time to prevent an accident.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
VIII rhi. Choir Di.b.nd,

Never again will the inmates of the
Mercer County Poor Farm, Pennsyl-
vania, be entertained with the anthems
rendered by a choir. One Of the lead
ing choirs Of Sharon was transported
to the. poor farm to sing at religious
services. During the rendition of the
first number one Of the inmates fell to
the floor and died within two minutes.
During the second number one of the
inmates had an epileptic fit. 't