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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
PADEREWsKTS STEPsoN
BROKE" signs FOR ONE
OF MOTHERS CHICKENS

Paris, Feb. 25.-Wencelas Otto Cor
ski, stepson of Paderewski, who is re-
ported by cable from America to be
suing the pianist for half Of his moth
er's wealth, denied today that he had
started any suit. He admitted, however,
that his relations with the pianist are
strained.
Gorski is something Of Bohemian.
In desperate straits, he has pawned
many of his belongings, He and his
wife lived meagerly.
In the first place." he said, today,
my mother has no fortune. All of her
money is invested in q chicken farm
in Switzerland. There are probably
5000 fowls there. I'd like to have one
Of those birds occasionally to eat at
present.
I'm pretty hard up and don't know
what to do. / have in fact only 8 cents,
/ left Paderewski when he became
angry because l married without con
sulting him first"
Gorski is living In a small studio
In the Latin quarter.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
CITED TO COURT
IN CONTEMPT CASE
Sheriff and Real Estate Man
Trespass Upon Rights of
Receiver.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Feb. 27.-Judge
Garland, of the United States court in
this city, has issued an order requiring
Sheriff Charles Lindquist, OF Day coun-
ty, and David b. Compton. a well
known real estate dealer residing at
Webster, county seat of Day county,
to appear before him on March 4 next
and show why they should not
be punished for contempt of court.
Recently creditors of Arthur J. RE
ger, OF WATERFOWL, owner of nine grain
elevators situated on railroads in the
northeastern part Of the state, filed a
petition in the federal court asking that
Rieger, who was alleged to be insolv-
emit, be declared an involuntary bank
rupt, and asking for the appointment
of a receiver. Pending a hearing in
the case, Judge Garland appointed
Charles E. Mckinney, a prominent
Sioux Falls banker, to the position Of
receiver for the property Of Rieger.
Compton alleged that he had 1000
bushels Of wheat and other grain in
Rieger's elevator at Webster and a few
days ago commenced an action in the
Day county courts to replevin the grain
which he alleged to belong to him. At
the time the grain already had passed
into the possession Of Receiver Nc
Kinney. Compton placed the replevin
papers in the hands of Sheriff Lind
quist, who, going to the elevator, broke
into the building, it is alleged, and re-
moved the 1000 bushels of grain in
question.
1t is stated that other parties who
took similar action to recover grain
from Rieger's elevators after they had
passed into the possession of Receiver
Mckinney also will be cited to appear
before Judge Garland and show cause
why they should not be punished for
contempt.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
FIT UP "SANCTUM"
FOR Mr.. ROOSEVELT

New York. Feb. 25.-The Outlook OF
March 6, which probably will be pub
lished on March 5, will contain Mr..
Roosevelt's first article written as ar
editorial contributor. The greatest
vigilance is being exercised to keep any
part of this article from appearing IN
print before the writer has ceased to
be president.
Mr.. Roosevelt has written from time
to time for the Outlook since 1t became
known hat he was to be connected
with that weekly, but his u~tterances
have not been editorial.
Lawrence Abbott, president of the
Outlook company has had q suite Of
two DON fitted up in the Kennedy
building for Mr.. Roosevelt. There the
ex-president will have his stenographer
and private telephone. His name will
not be on the door of his suite, as that
would make il too easy for persons TO
get to him, but it will be on the door
leading to the Outlook offices in the
neX building.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
TAX COMMISSION
BILL IS KILLED
House Delivers the Decisive
Blow-Supreme Judge Meas
ure Goes to Governor.

Pierre. s. D., Feb. 26.-There was
nothing left of the tax commission
measure when the house got through
with it yesterday afternoon. Regard
less Of the leanings toward more sys-
tematic taxation 1t proposed to create
three new salaried offices and this was
enough to put it to sleep. III
The senate passed the house supreme
court bill without amendment, creating
two new districts, and the measure Will
become q law when it receives the sig
nature of h governor. 1t forms new
districts in the northern and southern
portions of the state. In the northern
district there is talk of Judge Mccoy,
of Aberdeen. for supreme Judge, and
Judge Howard, of Gettysburg, Is a
candidate. Judge Smith, of Yankton,
L. c. Ericsson, of Elk Point, and r. b.
Trip, Of Yankton, are mentioned for
the iudgeship from the southern dis
trict. The appointments will be made
by the governor. The bill for q stand
ard form of fire insurance policy was
accepted by the senate, which also
voted to repeal the nursery law. The
house passed its own bill to prevent
brewers or wholesalers from engaging
in the retail liquor bushes or assisting
others to do so.
Pierre, S. d., Feb. 26.-The CONFER
ence committee on rate OF interest on
the warrants bill reported a compro-
mise today, fixing the rate of interest
at 6 per cent, with the proviso that
$50, 900 are registered the treas
urer shall issue refunding warrants at
s per cent. 1t was feared that h 5
per cent limit on small warrants would
put them below par.
A bill come into the house today re-
curing a license and a $4,000 bond
from land men.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
JNO. D. DEFENDS HIS
TREATMENT OF WIDOW

New York, Mch. John D.. Rookie
Teller at last breaks the silence Of 81
years to defend himself against a story
figuring prominently in writings of
those who take an unfriendly view of
him and Of the Standard Oil company,
which, IF II were true would represent
a shocking instance of cruelty in crush
ing a defenseless woman"
Mr.. Rockefeller refers to the Backus
purchase mad by the company of
which he was the head In 1878 and
which often is cited as an example of
the relentless cruelty of the Standard
Oil company. Mr.. Rockefeller then pro-
ceeds to tell how the widow of r. M.
Backus, who had been engaged in the
~lubricating oil business, before his
death had personally requested Mr..
Rockefeller to conduct the negotiations
with her in reference to purchase by
Standard Oil company OF the property
left her by her husband. D..
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
FEDERAL COURT
HAS JURISDICTION

Sioux Falls, S. D., Mch. Judge
Garland, Of the United States
court, as a result of argu-
ments made before him today de-
cided thai his court had jurisdic-
ton to the exclusion OF all other courts
in the case involving the act of the
state legislature in reducing passenger
fares in South Dakota from 3 to 2 cents
per mile. He discussed the question
as to whether the state supreme court
or federal court had jurisdiction in the
case. a'
Judge Garland held that this jurisdic-
ton had existed from the time of filing
the first bill in the case by which the
state board of railroad commissioners
sought to reduce passenger rates to
2h cents per mile. Railroads I'm the
present case involving the 2-cent rate
are permitted to file their suits as sup
Elemental to the original suits.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
DRUNKARD: ONE WHO
GETS DRUNK TWICE A YEAR

Springfield, Ill, March 2.-Young men
who frequent saloons will not be per-
mitted to enter into matrimonial rela-
tons in Illinois If a bill introduced in
the house be enacted into law, and it
probably will pass.
The bill was introduced by Repre-
sentative Groves, and amends the
ing an habitual drunkard incapable of
contracting marriage and defining an
"habitual drunkard' to be a person
who becomes intoxicated twice in a
year. The bill provides, also, that ap-
plicants for marriage licenses shall
make affidavit that they have not been
intoxicated twice in the preceding year.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
WOMAN FINDS PEARL
COOKED TO A FINISH

Yankton, S. D., March 2.-While en-
gagged in preparing some oysters for a
meal, Mrs. Oar Brooks. of this city,
heard the rattle of something in the
kettle. She went to fishing with a
spoon and experienced the pleasure OF
pulling out a fine pearl. The gem was
submitted to a Sioux City expert who
said 1t was worth $500, If the hot water
had not come in contact with 1t. AS II
was, while II had fine shape and size,
its value had been nearly destroyed,
owing to the action of the water,
which had removed the color. Mrs.
Brooks has decided she will from now
on look carefully for pearls every time
she buys oysters. This is something in
fact she has always done, but omitted
1t when the pearl did arrive.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
GRAND OPERA CAREER
FOR A CHICAGO SINGER

Chicago, March 2.-Tomorrow morn
ing will see at least one happy girl
leaving Chicago for New York. Miss
Belle Hulburt Forbes, OF 308 North
State ST., will start hen for the East,
and on Tuesday will sail for Germany,
there to prepare for her entrance upon
q grand opera career. The young So
prano goes to Europe under especially
favoring circumstances, for she is to be
the protege of no n less than Nine.
Sembrich herself. The great Polish
artist, on the occasion of her visit to
Chicago last October, heard Miss
Forbes sing, and was so impressed with
the voice, personality and talent of the
young girl that she volunteered to in
terest herself in her behalf.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
ARMOUR SILVER STOLEN;
SUMMER HOME A WRECK

Suffield, Conn, March 2.-Solid silver
ware to the value of hundreds Of dol
lars was taken from the home Of Mar
TIN H. Sheldon last night. The most
Of the property belonged to Mrs: J.
don's daughter. .
The house Is closed for the winter,
the occupants, according to their GUS
tom, having gone to New York to live.
The interior of the residence was prac-
tically wrecked, the robbers In their
search having broken and smashed
doors, china closets, cabinet drawers,
and in other ways inflicted injury upon
costly furniture.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
SmUFFRAGISTS WIN
Their BATTLE IN
THE LEGISLATURE
House Reverses Itself and
Passes Measure to Please
. the Ladies.

Pierre. S. d., Feb. 27.-Notwithstand-
Ing that the house defeated an equall
suffrage resolution early in the session,
1t yesterday reversed itself, reconsid-j
cred the vote by which the resolution
vas lost, and passed the resolution by,
a vote OF 68 to %. The same measure
passed the senate some time g prac-
tically without opposition, hence the
question will be voted on at the next
state election. The equal suffrage work.
ers who have kept steadily busy in sup
port of their pet project since the de-
feat scored by the house, are now much
elated over their victory.
Sasse's pure drug bill got tangled up
In the senate when an effort was made
to place its enforcement in the hands
of the food commissioner instead Of the
state board of pharmacy and it was put
over until next Tuesday without set
Ting the question.
The house toe up senate bills on
Its calendar n passed the following:
To require a transcript OF the records
to he made, when a county is divided,
one copy for each of the new counties
created. To require hat when q girl is
committed to the state training school
q matron shall be sent from the in
stitution to accompany her on the Jour-
ney. To prohibit the taking Of intoxi-
eating liquors or narcotic drugs onto
the premises of any of the state chart
table or penal institutions. To prohibit
and prevent t~respass on state lands.
To require a record TO be kept of all
uncoined previous metals. To give each
of the boards in charge of state in
stitutions charge over the printing of
its own report, and to prohibit the pub
LEGATION of advertisements of alleged
cures for sexual and venereal diseases.
Pierre, S. d., Feb. 27.-The house
passed the primary election bill today.
1t cuts out the county convention. The
central committee can only fill vacan-
cies caused by sickness or deaths. 1t
reduces the expense and simplifes the
primary. 1t will pass the senate.
There is strong opposition in the
to the purchase OF additional
capitol grounds for a lake.
The house deposit insurance bill will
reach the calendar from committee to-
morrow. 1t is amended to require $15,-
600 capital to join the association, and
cuts out the contingent assessment Sec
ton.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
STATE TREASURER CALLS
$4,000 WARRANTS

Pierre, S. D., Mch 1.-State Treas
urer johnson is not allowing any great
accumulation of the general fund to
pile up before he calls in outstanding
warrants. BY this means he the
state quite a little interest money,
which would be added by allowing the
warrants to run a little longer time.
AS he has pledged himself to take no
interest on the state funds, there Is
no special object in allowing warrants
to stand out until the fund is large
before making q; call, and his recent
call for $40, 900 of warrants shows his
inclination along that line.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
OBALDIA TELLS
ABOUT U. S. CONGRESS

Panama, March 2.-President Obaldia
of the Republic Of Panama, cabled to
William Nelson Cromwell as follows:
II am sure those slandered by Rain
ey congressman from Illinois) will vim
dictate themselves. A reputation at
tackled does not suffer by the impos-
lures OF a rabid representative.
Panama has only words of praise
for you and the others insulted. l have
reformed my belief regarding the re-
spectabiltty of members Of the Ameri-
can congress. Among them are liars
indecent and ignorant as a superlative
degree"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04

Sydney, Australia, has had q novelty
IN the shape OF q mystery ship" An
American steamer, the Coronet, arrived
6y night in the harbor unsignaled and
unannounced. II was peoplea by a
strange looking crowd Of men, women
and children. The officers were dressed
IA clerical attire-long coats and white
lies. Nobody was allowed on board
bave the government medical officer
and the harbor master. The Sydney
reporters ascertained that the ship il
connected with the newest American
sect, the holy Ghost and Us" whose
head, a man named Stanford, claiming
20 be the reincarnated Elijah, is on
board. The Coronet has been cruising
Tor some months among the Pacific
islands. ...
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04

observations in India indicate that
Just a agricultural land, after many
repetitions OF the same crops, becomes
exhausted for that particular species,
20 In forest lands. after long periods,
Nhe seedlings may fall owing to changes
"a the soil, and new varieties may take
their place. Forests OF blue pine in
that country have been observed to
fall. the deodar tree tending to take
the place OF pine. In another case
forests OF pine and oak have been
found, each invading and tending to
take UP the ground occupied by the
other. Elsewhere in India, spruce and
silver fr have beer found advancing
Into d failing bal forest, and mulberry
extending upon land formerly occu-
pied dominantly by ''shisham" trees.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04

It would not seem that a law against
the sale of rotten eggs would be nee
essary In these days, but Pennsylvania
seems to think ~expedient. It ap-
pears that in Philadelphia there is q
large trade in riots" and spots
applied, cracked and dirty eggs-and a
bill has been offered in the Pennsyl-
vania legislature to make their sale
and use a crime. RIOTS" and spots"
are bought by wholesalers, who sell
lhem to bakers at about 6 cents a doz-
en-. With this fact known, the house.
wife who gets ~poundcake for 10 and IL
cents a pound may understand how the
baker can make 1t so much more cheap
" than she can.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
DAKOTA SOLONS
pUzzLING OVER
APPROPRIATIONS
Last Days of the Session Given
Over to Sitting Of Demands
for Money.

Pierre, s. d., Feb. 25.-Not much of
important legislation will be enacted In
the remaining 10 days of the session.
The appropriation bills will be the cen
ter Of interest and there will be both
extravagant demands and strenuous
opposition to them.
A deposit insurance law will be
passed, either the one already past the
house or the Norbeck senate bill, or a
compromise between the two.
Ewert's negotiable instrument bill
which passed the senate Is meeting
with opposition in the house and APP
pears to be scheduled for defeat.
Both houses were in recess yesterday
and beginning their sessions again this
afternoon.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04

A Vienna correspondent Of the Pail
Mall Gazette tells Of a new infectious
disease among children in lower Aus
tria, to which the doctors have given
the name Of polyomyelites. Translated
into plain language this chill
dren's spinal paralysis. The first symp-
tom Is a high fever, followed by a Sc
we're headache. sickness and vomiting,
and some times also accompanied by
~convulsions or cramp. The next stage
10 paralysis, either OF the whole body
90 individual limbs. This paralysis
occasionally takes a transverse direc-
d0n, the right arm and left leg being
nffected. The disease does not appear
20 be fatal. Frequently a complete re-
covery Is effected, but occasionally the
limbs remain In O weak condition.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04

That caste has a great power in mod
ern India Is shown by an incident
which occurred during the recent trial
III dynamite bomb c~onspirators In CAL
cutta. An Indian inspector OF police
happened to stumble against one OF the
prisoners, q Brahman, as he was pass
Ing to his place In court. Instantly tho
officer bent down. and. taking the dust
from the Brahman's feet, humbly
begged his pardon. And the prisoner,
who resented the accidental contact,
accepted his apology as no more than
his due.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
COOPERATIVE CREAMERY
EOR 'RElIE EOlJRCAE

Belle Fourche, s. D., Feb. ga CO.
operative creamery will open here
about April 1. The organization has
just been completed with a capital Of
$4,000. A big ice house has been built
and filled and the creamery building is
nearly ready. The machinery will be
ordered at once e. A. Baldwin, OF
Litchfield. s. D., president OF the South
Oak Dairymen's association, has
been hired for a year as manager and
buttermaker.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
JUVENILE ELoPERs
HELD IN CUSTODY

Huron, S. D., Feb. ga telegram
from Clairmont, Brown county, Satur-
day evening, marred the joys OF Ada
Pierson' and Ova Johnson, two Brown
county young people, who eloped from
Clairmont that day. They were on
their way to Minneapolis when taken
into custody here by Officers Barker
and Hawley, and are being held await
ing instructions from George III. Pier
son, father OF the young lady. who
claims that she is under age. johnson
says he is 20 years old and that the
lady is competent to become his wife.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
zIEeFELD HELD IN BAIL.

field husband OF Anna ZieefeId arres5 :
ed in company with Emily Leslie, dra-
matte editor of a Chicago newspaper,
on a charge of speeding up Seventh
avenue in an automobile, between One
Hundred and Seventeeth and One Hun
bred and Nineteenth streets, waved
examination in the Harlem police court
and gave bail in 500.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
WIFE OF j. HAM LEWIS IS
SHORT $4,000 IN JEWELRY

London, Feb. 26.-Mrs. James HAM
ilton Lewis, of Chicago, was robbed OF
jewelry worth $500 while on the
steamship Mauretania on the VOYAGE
from New York recently. She has filed
information Of the theft with the ofB-
Gals of the Cunard line at Liverpool
and an investigation is being made by
them.
Mrs. Lewis will be Joined in Paris by
her husband, and they then will begin
q new attempt to capture the thief.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
GRAIN BUYER Is ....
SHORT ABOUT $1,000

Aberdeen, s. D., Feb. 27,-J. d. Rust,
agent for the Pacific Elevator company
at Leola until a short time ago, has
and an agent for a Twin City bonding
company Is at Leola investigating
Rust's books, II having been discov-
cred that an alleged discrepancy in his
accounts OF about $1,000 has been made.
Rust's accounts were correct In De-
cember, when the company's auditor
went owe his books. but the alleged
shortage. 1t is claimed, took place since
then.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04

The Rev. Sydney Goodman, director
Of the Mems club, Of Atlantic City, is
being congratulated On the success Of
his work. The Sunday night gather
mgs at his church have become a fea-
ture of Atlantic City life. They are
limited to the male sex. Cigars are
passed around and the men made
TO feel at home while the minister Is
preaching the gospel to them. From a
congregation OF 200 in 1907 his church
has now reached a total membership Of
more than 1000.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
FRED ~GRIESHEIMER'S
WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE

New York, Feb. 25.-Miss Gertrude
G~riesheimer, one of the pretty show
girls who have graced the New York
stage these many years, Is suing her
husband, Fred Griesheimer, for sep
aration, alleging cruel treatment and
abandonment. MI. G~riesheimer Is a son
OF a Chicago millionaire clothing mer-
chant. Mr.. G~rieshelmer lives at the
Hotel Long Acre. q bachelors hotel
IN West Forty-ffth st, He IL web
known along Broadway.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
FIGHT TO DEATH OVER
NIGHT RIDERS RIGHTS

Paducah, KY, Mch. IAN argument
starting in the dining room of a board
ing house here last night as to the
justification. it is alleged. of certain acts
charged to the band Of nightricers. ter
minated In the killing of the proprietor
OF the boarding house, Oscar Osborn.
Louis Futrell is under arrest charged
with the killing, while his father, J.. ID.
Futrell, and T, ID. Petty are held as
accessories.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
THE s~UFFRAGETTES ARE
NOT AT ALL SCARED

London, March 2.-The women suf-
fragists are losing no opportunity to
force this morning outside OF Holloway
TAIL to welcome three Of their number
who had just completed one months
Imprisonment for trying TO interview
Premier Asquith. In spite OF the fact
that snow was falling they formed In
procession and marched to Hollsborn,
where a breakfast Of welcome was
given for the martyrs" I,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04

In New York city alone there are
more than 900, 900 Jews, making the
metropolis of America the greatest
Jewish center in the world. The prop
erty holdings of the Jews in New York
exceeds 5000, 000, 600 in the single item
OF real estate, their wholesale trade is
rated 81, 000, 000, 900 per annum, and with
few exceptions all the big department
stores are controlled by the Jews-and
yet they are not the money power in
New York which they are popularity
IMPOSED to be.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-04
HEN LAYS IN NEST
IN A SNoWBANk

Miller, s. D., Feb. 27.-As boys were
sliding down a huge %snowbank on the
Briggs & Roberts ranch west of town
they sank into the drift as though
falling into a ave. In the bottom Of
h drift were some hens that had been
covered up by the Strange to
say, the chickens were doing we'll
enough in their s~nowbound quarters,
Of the hens having gone right on
laying eggs while thus buried.