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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09

Three Killed and Five Wounded in
Fight ut

On the scene of the famous Greek In
dian uprising of last year at Hickory
Settlement. Okla. three negroes were
killed. five wounded and forty captured
IN a battle etwee twenty deputy sher-
ills and 100 negroes. The fighting began
late Wednesday afternoon and continued
until 10 o'clock Thursday. Five dcpu-
ties went from IIenryetta TO the negro
settlement to arrest cattle thieves thought
to be conceded in the house of one of
the negroes. They We're met by a party
OF armed negroes and fired upon. Out
numbered. the deputies fled. A. few hours
later a large posse reached the settle
mcnt. Some one fired a shot and the
rioting was on. The light continued as
a series of duels throughout the night.
The deputies renewed the attack on the
negroes Thursday morning. About 800
shots were fired in the last encounter.
when two negroes were killed and Depu-
ty Sheriff Fowler injured. At the first
onslaught the negroes were dislodgcd
from their huts and fled. The deputies
pursued and captured forty.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09

abecnrsIn@cfose touch wien the rorstruc-
ton companies in Montana, Idaho and
Washington. has returned to, Chicago
with the report that freight trains will
be running over the whole system in
May. vi
"Harking back to the days when Jay
Cook was stalled at Bismarck in his
effort to build the Northern Pacific
across the continent he said, land
Their looking at this giant achievement
of the new century, one is forced to
marvel at the methods which make it
possible to build railroads at such
speed. In the nearly three years since
April, 1906. the construction companies
at work on the Pacific extension have
removed $4,000, 900 cubic yards of
earth. cut 100000 cubic yards of tun-
mel through the Rocky Bitter Root and
Cascade mountains, put up twenty
miles of steel bridges and laid 100000
ons of rails at a total cost of $780,
OOO,OOO.'
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09

to death by their own tribe. SO they
promised the IndianS-these white men
did-that if they would just go peace
fully across the Mississippi, they could
have all the land there was out there,
except the part embraced by Il States
of Missouri and Louisiana. They could
have the rest of the continent forever,
if they would only clear out.
Perhaps those white men don't fore
see that their children would want to
settle west Of the Missippi. But that's
what happened. Out Of the red mems
bOundless territory was carved State
after State, finally leaving only Indian
Territory. And this, the red men were
told, should BIZ really and truly theirs
forever n eve III ever. They cut
the Indian Territory in two and made
part of it Oklahoma. Still they
weren't satisfied. There was still lots
Of rich country there. They wanted
it. They used specious arguments.
Great territory unproductive-loss to
the world-Indians didn't know what
to do with the country-were better
off without it. They convinced them
| selves that it was better for them to
nav the land than for the Indians.
BY 1903 Congress was ready to drive
the Creek nation from its stronghold.
It was done through q commission
The Dawes commission was to count
the Indians. organize them into sepa-
rate divisions along tribal lines. sur
vey the land, then figure one-quarter
section to each Indian, and let the rest
he sold in open market-to the whites
Of course.
The Greeks refused to accept the
allotments. Chief Crazy Snake wanted
to gather all the Indians up and emf.
CRATE to Mexico. He didn't want tC
vote and plow the soil. lie wanted to
live his old life. The general exodus
proved impractical. Old Crazy Snake
stood things as long as he could
White men respected him. but they
knew the turmoil going on behind thai
immobile face. He pleaded with the
sense Of fairness of a visiting party
of United States Senators, but they
answered with words only. Then came
the rebellion.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
SO BELOW FOR so DAYS.
Indians Die as Result Of Starvation
After the Cold Winter.

Colin Fraser, an old-time trapper,
who for the last t~wenty-six years has
been going north from Edmonton each
fall into Canada's forests, tells in 4
graphic manner the terrible sutferings
of the Indians in the far North during
the past winter. He says:
1T was the hardest winter I have
ever seen in the North. During n Pc
Rod Of fifty days the thermometer
never went higher than SO degrees be-
low zero, and 80 md even 50 below
days were quite frequent. The Indians
suffered terribly, and in n small tribe
siNty-seven of them died off. Their
stores ran out and many of them were
on the verge Of starvation. Fish solved
the food problem in former years when
~fur-bearing animals were scarce, but
this year there were no fish to be
caught.
The scarcity of fur will result in
terrible hardshipS and great mortality
anon the northern Indians, for they
will get neither the flesh to eat O the
fur to trade for other commodities.
Long since the trading stores in the
North ceased to give credit"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09

husband were given separate trials,
and although the evidence was circum-
stantial. both were convicted and sen
fenced to death. Mrs. Brennan~and2her
husband lived in a house which they
had occupied for twenty years and
which was owned by Mrs. Brennan.
Months before the homicide, in October,
1907, Mrs. Farmer went to a lawyers
Office at Watertown, produced a deed
of the Brennan property, and, imper-
sonating Mrs. Brennan. had the dee1
transferred TO James D. Farmer, sign
ing the name Sarah Brennan" The
deed was returned from the clerks
Office to James D.. Farmer Nov. 26, and
jar. Z, 1908, Mrs. Farmer and her
husband went to another lawyer and
mad the deed drawn to Peter J. Farm
er, a child born to them the preceding
September.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
PIANIST'S CAREER ENDS.
"Player's Cramp" Stops Paderewsh
for Years and Perhaps Forever.

Ignace Jan Paderewski, the magician
Of the piano, may never charm again
in America. possibly never again any
where. He will devote the principal
part of life remaining to him to COM
position, if his fears prove true.
The reason for this resolve, the IA
nous pianist virtually admitted, was
"piano players cramp,' the insidiouA
creeping malady that often follows
years of brilliant and nerve-wearing ex-
ecution on the keyboard, %blighting the
career of an artist before his time.
When P~aderewski, who was accompa-
MED by his wife, sailed from New
York on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
Tuesday, he held his left hand in the
right as if it needed the most tender
nursing. He seemedsappssA~naASssAh~As
his~.s'cuma tisn1 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
may never return to America" said the
great Polish artist somewhat sadly. II
still have pains-shooting pains-in my
left arm and hand. I have them now
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
@GUIREEUT.%
@'QOE1E7EWE]!HF&
The New Cabinet.

Seven attorneys in the Taft Cabinet
and not q Philadelphia lawyer among
them.-Providence Bulletin.
If Taft is perfectly satisfied with his
Cabinet, we'll take the ninety and nine
in out of the wet.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
As we understand it, all the new Cabi-
net officers play golf but Uncle Jimmy
Wilson, and he pitches horseshoes uncom-
monty well.-Indianapolis Star.
The declaration of Secretary of War
Dickinson that he is d Democrat shows
|, the need of an investigating commission
to determine just what constitutes a
Observation-Disclosures Post.
Franklin MacVeagh, the new Secretary
of the Treasury in the Taft Cabinet, is a
Chicago wholesale grocer. 1t is now up
to the photographers to remark that this
ought to put sane into the next admins
tration.-Augusta Chronicle.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
RAILWAY MAKES RECORD.
st. Paul Builds Twenty Miles OF
Bridges on Pacific Extension.

The Pacific coast extension OF the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail.
way crosses MuSselShell River, Mon
tana, 115 times in III miles. 1t has
broken every American record by build
ing twenty miles of bridges on that
portion of the system which begins at
the Missouri River. South Dakota. and
ends at the cities OF Tacoma and Sc.
attic. Surveyors. engineers and con
strrctorS were instructed back in 9 0
when actual work was begun on the
extension now known rs the Chicago,
Milwaukee 4 Puget Sound road, to
move in straight lines wherever pos
sible except in the climbing of noun,
tains. The result is seen in Il most
remarkable series of bridges. trestles
and tunnels, bringing the distance by
rail from Chicago to Seattle down to
2.l75 miles-from so to IA miles
shorter than by the three other trans
continental lines which reach Puget
Sound. Robert l.. Nibouche, who has
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09

During the last ten years the New
York Central has expended $3.50, OO.0OO
for betterments and increased facilities.
The New York Central is preparing an
educational train to run in connection
with the New York State Agricultural
College.
The Wells-Fargo Express Company is
planning to monopolizc the express bust
ness of Mexico by absorbing the National
Express Company.
It is stated that the Lake Shore will
be given a good share of the $4,000. 900
worth of equipment to be contracted for
by the New York Central lines.
The report some time ago that the
PENNSYLVANIA had acquired a half inter
est in the Lake Erie and Pittsburs road,
building from Youngstown to Lorain. has
been confirmed.
f.. T.. Young. former attorney general.
appeared before the railroad committee
of the Minnesota House. and argued in
favor of J.. N. Johnson's bill. which au-
thoriZes the State to regulate the issuin:
of stocks and bonds by railroads.
The accounting department of the Cen
trail Electric Railway Association of Ohio,
Indiana and Michigan held a two days
session in Lima. Ohio. Thu problem of
a uniform system of interrailway account
ing is being studied by thirty different
traction lines.
Rush orders nave been issued to the
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound en-
gineering department to complete the
roads terminal in Seattle and Tacoma i'm.
mediately, as within, two months the roads
vii! be running trains into Seattle. \
large force has been put in service on the
work. .-,
Attorney General Major, of Missouri,
says he will appeal to the United States
Supreme Court from the decision of Fed.
cral Judge Mcpherson. declaring the ..
cent passenger rate illegal.
1t is understood negotiations are well
advanced for an interchange of traffic
agreements between the Wabash and I'm
lou Pacific at Kansas City that will be
of great value to each system.
The report of the earnings and ex.
penses of. the Omaha road for the month
of January and for the seven months end.
ing Jan. 81, 1909, shows that there has
been considerable improvement in traffic
on the road during the past few months,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
CAUSE OF THE INDIAN TROUBLE
Dates Back to Early Encroachment
Of the White Man.

Back to 1S32-perhaps to 1492-the
Indian troubles of Oklahoma ind their
origin. The Creeks, strongest and
proudest of Indian nations, could never
understand or sympa1hizc with the
white men. Their methods Of living
were different, and they wouldn't or
couldn't change. The Creek nation.
the general branch to which belonged
Cherokee and Choctaw md Chickasaw
and Seminole. met DeSoto with pois-
oncd arrows, and warrcd against Ogle-
tlrope. Through all the Indian wars,
the American Revolution and the War
of 1872 the Creeks were fighting white
men. They would ally with the French,
the Spanish, the Fnglish-they were
always fighting against some white
races. They didn't care much which.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
INDIANS KILL WHITES.
6heriff's Posse Ambushed in oklGs
homa and Volley Greets officers.


Two deputies In a sheriff's squad
were ambushed and killed by amber
Of the Snake clan of the Creek Indians
at the home of Chitti Harjo, chief OF
the band, near Hickory Ground, Okla,
Saturday and a desperate war with the
red men seems under way.
Hundreds of citizens in the vicinity
of the killing have taken the field and
four companies of State militia have
been modified. The Indians are we'll
armed. having been purchasing rifles
and ammunition for a month in prepa-
ration for a clash with the whites.
Details of the affair are meager, the
only information coming by telephone
from Checotah, the nearest town to the
scene of the encounter. Those killed
were: Edward Daum, Herman Odomp
son of the sheriff of Mcintosh county.
These two, with Frank Swift, William
Carr, Frank Jones and Lee Batemen.
composed the party that went to arrest
Chitti iIarjo, whose residence Is six
teen miles southwest of Checotah. The
Indian was wanted as a result or y
fight in which three negroes were
killed.
The officers, having heard that tho
Indians and negroes were again peace
able after the battle of Thursday, ap-
preached the cabin of Harjo without
fear of trouble. AS they We're entering
the chiefs yard, twenty guns were
leveled upon them from as many men
in the house and around the corners.
Odom and Daum fell dead. The others
ran Il few yards and hid in a clump
of trees until the Indians disappeared.
Then they returned to the bodies OF
their companions. Finding them dead,
they hurried to Pierce.
Hario, who has SO often within tho
last two years expressed his displeas-
ure ut the restraints of law and who
was often called his men into council
on that account, is believed to have
determined to make a firm stand in be-
half Of his ideas of liberty. His men
have been outlaws for years. 1t re-
CURED the services of United States Of
ticers n the threat of a call for tho
State militia to Quell his band last fau
during Il session Of the council at Hicks
DRY Ground.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
Castro in Exile.

If Venezuela lets Castro come back, she
may have a pound of cure to pay for it
Augusta Chronicle.
If the Venezuelans will allow him to
return home Castro promises to be good.
Wouldn't that jar the seismograph-
Galveston News.
II is said that Castro has reached the
end of his financial resources. 1t would
appear that the only resour left him.
and Of course he slrinks from If, is work.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
And Castro will return. But that is
what every mans ghost does where there
is buried Observation-Disclosures Constitution.
Castro is reported to have announced
his willingness to return to Venezuela as
a private citizen. If he really said it
and actually means it, it would seem that
he has hit on a needlessly troublesome.
expensive and painful method of suicide.
louisville Times.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
BIG MILITARY PRISON BURNS.
800 of the Army's Convicts Rescued
at Fort Leavenworth.

The military prison at Fort Leaven-
worth. Kan, was partially destroyed
by fire at midnight Wednesday night.
h 500 prisoners all were taken from
the main building as soon as the fire
reached it and hone was injured.
The ccnvicts were confined in Il
stockade under the guard of United
States troops. None Of them. SO far
as is known. succeeded in gaining his
liberty during the transfer to the
stOckade. At > O'Clock some of the celE-
houses had cooled sufficiently to allow
half Of the prisoners to return. The
others will be taken to the Federal
prison, two miles away. at daylight.
Two Of the Federal soldiers who were
fighting the fire were injured. The
property loss on the building is esti-
mated at 100000.
The fire was first discovered at 10
O'Clock in the tailor shop. 1t soon
spread to the shoe shop and the black
smith establishment. Lack Of water
pressure prevented all hope of saving
even the main building, and it was de-
cided to move the inmates. Long before
this, however, the convicts had seen the
flames and, fearing they would be
burned to death, they battered on the
bars of their cells and screamed in
terror.
AS soon as several companies Of SOL
dierS, including cavalrymen, had gotten
under arms, a strong Gordon was
thrown about the prison and the deliv-
cry of the prisoners began. The sick
were removed first, placed in ambu-
lances, and taken to the Fort Leaven-
worth hospital under guard Of cavalry.
The records were removed from the
administration building. If everything
had not been done in perfect order lives
doubtless would nave been lost. AS it
was, strict military discipline prevailed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09

All women who decline to remove their
hats are officially barred from the First
Baptist Church of Somerville. Mass, ac-
cording to an announcement given out.
The trustees. after considering the cues
ton for some time, decided to formally
promulgatc the new rule. AS one trus-
tee expressed it, The fancy millinery of
the present time attracts so much atten-
ton that women spend more time exa m
lining hats than they do in listening to the
Many pastors throughout the Uni.
ted States have spoken against the big
hat nuisance and urged women not to
wear them in church.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
THINKS HE is CHARLIE ROSS.
Brakeman Believes Self and Famous
boy Are Identical.

Brakeman Believes Self and
Kidnapped Boy Are Identical.
William Grant Eyester of Mckee's
Rocks, a Pittsburg suburb, formerly a
coal miner at Shanokin, now a brakeman
on the fittsburg an. Lake Erie Rail-
road, stated that he believes he is the
Charlie Ross kidnapped from Germantown,
Pa, thirty-five years ago and never re-
covered. He said he learned early in
life that he was not the child of his sup
posed parents, and that many things
they did led him to believe that he was
Charlie Ross. He said he tallies in every
respect with the description of Charlie.
even to moles on his body. Memories of
his early home, he said. agree with de-
scriptions of the Ross home. His foster
parents, who lived at Shamokin. are dead
and he has no evidence of his identity
and is not making any effort to prove
his claim with the families in the case
because of the notoriety it would give
him,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
ADMIRAL CONVERSE DEAD AT rs
Chief Who Assembled Globe-Gir-
aiiin. Snins Succumhs Mt IIo1nc.

Chief Who Assent led GlObe-Gir-
ding Ships ~SuccuMbs at Home.
Rear Admiral George A.. Converse, 10
years old, died at his home in Washing
ton. d. c., of uraemic poisoning. AL
though placed on the retired list several
years ago, he was in active service at
the time of his death, being president of
the board of construction of the navy.
1t was under him, as chief of the bureau
of navigation. that the battleship feet of
sixteen vessels which recently circled the
globe was assembled. His widow, who
was a Miss Blood of New York, and his
two unmarried daughters, Maud and Olga,
were with him when he died. Two other
daughters survive-Mrs. Colt of Bristol,
K. l.. and Mrs. Jackson of Baltimore,
Md. Admiral Converse was born in Nor
witch. Vt.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
CHARGED WITH BIG FORGERY.
Roy Horton Arrested in Kansas City
Accused of $4,000 Svvindle.

Roy Horton Arrested in Kansas City,
Accused of $4,000 Svvindle
Boy Horton was arrested in Kansas
City on a charge Of forgery for an
amount placed at $4,000 and will be
taken back to East St. Louis, III. He
is charged with perpetrating a confidence
game upon the Stock Yards Company of
East st. Louis. Horton had been trad
ing in horses for several weeks in Kan
sas City under the name of William Ry-
an. John L.. Horton, Rays brother. was
arrested at the home of his wife's moth
er in Upper Alton, ILL.,, march 10. and
is now out under $4,000 bail. In 1893
the Horizons established in East st.
Louis the commission firm Of Horton
Brothers & Hess. a part of the firms
business consisted in financing feeders in
Texas. In 1902 the brothers disappear
ed, and it was then discovered that they
had questionable paper out to an amount
approaching 100000
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09

Passengers Escape in Wreck and
Fire Near Castle Rock, Utah.
West-bound passenger train No. ) on
the Union Pacific Railroad struck a rock
slide about a mile west of Castle Rock.
Utah, about 4 30 a. IN. Wednesday and
went into the ditch. The wreckagc i'm
mediately took fire and the baggage car,
mail car and FIVE passenger coaches were
destroyed. The b~aggageman and fireman
are reported missing. but all the passen-
gers, according to the meager reports re-
ceived, escaped serious injury.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
TO RETURN TO Scent FARE.

Missouri Roads Also Announce New
Suits in Other States.
The Scent local ticket rate and the
2,OOO-milc interchangeable book will be
put in effect April 10, according to an
official statement issued by the eighteen
railroads in Missouri. The statement
was made after the return of the railroad
representatives from Jefferson City,
where conferences on the passenger rate
question were held with Governor Had
ley, Attorney General Major n MEM
bers of the railroad committee Of the
Legislature. The statement also an
nounces that actions to test the validity
of the 2-cent laws in adjoining States
will be brought at once.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09

Andrew Jackson gained part of his
when their undyinE hostility to the
whites had aroused the new country to
a frenzy. In succeeding years the
American executives bent their enc
gics to getting this powerful ana trou-
blcSome nation. which would not be
placatcd nor remain peaceful clear out
of the country. This brought the
treaty of 1882, by which the Indians
we're sent beyond the Mississippi. 1t
was only reached after several new
wars, and after two or three chiefs.
who were willing TO treat with vic
torious white men. mad bee condemned
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09

A freak calf was born the other day on
the farm of h. w. Malone. near Prince
ton, Ind. The calf was of the ordinary
size and build, but it was far different
from others of it's kline in the fact that
it's heart was on the outside of it's body
The organ was entirely exposed and its
pulsations could be seen plainly. Not,
withstanding this peculiar condition the
little animal lived for several hours ana
might have lived mulch longer had it moi
been injured shortly after birth.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09
STAY U. s. SCIENTIST.
Dr.. willian Jones Is Victim 81
Ilonxo in Philippines.

IL = &#-
Troops nave been ordered out to inves-
tigate the murder of DR.. William Jones
of Chicago, a noted ~ethnologist of the
Field Museum, who was killed by savage
head hunters in the mountainous district
of the Island of Luzon, p. l. A force
Of Philippine constabulary, under Ameri-
can officers, has been sent to the spot to
recover the body and learn, If possible,
what tribe killed the scientist. The
scene of the murder is the town of Dunno
bato, at the headquarters of the Cagayan
River in Isabella Province, in the ex-
IRENE north of the island. DR.. Jones
had been in Luzon two years studying
the customs and religions of the wild
tribes for the Field Museum of Chicago.
He had been living Tor several months
among the Ilongots. a friendly tribe, but
planned to leave them to investigate an
other tribe of head hunters in the noun
tains. 1t is believed he was killed while
making this journey.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-09

Theodore Maynard, wealthy farmer,
drove into Bellingham. Wash. with his
wife. and as he tempted to help her
out Of the carriage founu she had died.
The husband explained that shortly after
e aving hcme she had swayed in the seat
and he pus his arm around her. keeping
it there until he reached the city.