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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
Clerk shut In Vault.

s. e. bonneville. the Planters Hotel
clerk. at st. Louis, stepped into it's vault
after midnight to put away some valua-
bles. Jack Shannon. the mail clerk, did
not see him enter, closed its door and
turned the bolt, imprisoning Bonneville,
the only person who know the vaults com-
bination- Bonneville pounded frantical-
ly against the vault doors until Miss Cora
Benson. the hotels telegraph operator, re-
called that bonneville was Il former teleg-
rapher. With Il paper weight she raped
a Morse code message to him on the vault
door; with a penknife he tapped back a
reply to her message, giving her the
vaults combination, which resulted in
his early release.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
Against s.LivinE Like Christi.

Rt. Rev. David Ii. Greer, bishop of the
New York Episcopal Diocese. has now
joined with Bishop Gambler of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South. at Balti-
more, in condemning the Cleveland move
ment, known as the VOW to live like
Christ. Bishop Greer. in the language
of st. Paul, says that the letter killeth,
but the spirit giveth life" He does not
believe that these associations are eff
Gent or necessary. Nevertheless, the
movement has spread from Cleveland to
many cities and thus tens of thousands
of people ave begun a daily effort to
put their faith in Christ to the practical
test Of living.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
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On a wager of $500 Charles Lambie.
st. Paul. agreed to walk to Seattle, j.
912 miles. in ninety days.
Eddie" Dugan, the jockey. is back III
New York after having failed to procure
in England a Jockeys license.
The French Prix de Palaisan was
won by w. X. Vandcrbilts Northeast.
Nash Turner's Pillard was second.
At Leicester. Eng. the Gladly 2-year-
old plate of 1O3 sovcreigns. distance five
furlongs, was won by Midhurst.
For the seventeen minutes t~ussling it
took Frank Gotch to upset Mahmout. the
terrible Turk, twice. the champion re-
ceived a total of $14.OSS.05.
George Demsey, of Columbus. was
given the decision over Hugh McMahon
of st. Paul in a six-round boxing con
test. The contest took place at Column
bus.
At Nottingham, England. the Little
john plate of 200 sovereigns for 2-year-
olds. distance four furlongs. was won by
H. P. Whitney's Oversight, ridden by
]. II. Martin.
As a result of the efforts of a number
of prominent Yale and Princeton alumni
IL appears prODdDle LDdl lHe varsity
crews of these two universities will meet
in a dual regatta on Carnegie Lake.
Charley Comiskey announced that he
had chosen Catcher Billy Sullivan as
manager for the White Sox this season. to
succeed Fielder Jones. This action was
generally expected and was what Chicago
fans wanted.
II. O. Messier and G. r. Schubert, OF
Milwaukee, are arranging for a sever
nights heel and toe walking match. the
contest to be open to the world. The rae.
ing hours will be three each evening, and
eight hours on the last day.
In a battle at Savannah. Ga. Jimmie
Dasher. Of Savannah. received credit fo!
a knockout over OWE Liss, of Brooklyn,
in the seventh round of a scheduled ff-
teen-round engagement.
Mack Catlin, coach of the Iowa Uni
versity track team. has notified the men
that any violation of diet or other train.
ing rules will be followed by expulsion
of the offender from the team.
The failure of the New York Jockey
Club stewards to provide any dates fol
the Brighton Beach Racing Association
has brought forth a protest which MAJ
develop into "A skirmish before the State
racing commission.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
BURGLAR STOPS FIRE; CAUGHT.
Waits to Put Out Flames He Started
and Comes to Grief.

Waits to Put Out Flames He Started
and Comes to Grief.
To save the lives of eight persons who
were asleep in the house, most of them
women, Carroll Higgins, a confessed bur
glar, turned fireman in the home of Rev.
Jacob j. Rcrnthal in st. Louis. and at
the risk of capture remained to ~cxtinguish
the blaze. While taxing silverware from
the sideboar I'd in the dining-room of the
clergyman's nome a candle the burglar
held in his hand set fire to drapcries
hanging near by. Higgins tore down the
knzing drapcries with his hands. blister
ing the skin. but prevented the fire from
spreading. When all was over he went
through the apartments of each sleeping
member Of the family and helped himself
to silverware and jewelry. when the
FIRE started I could have 'ducked' right
there, but I knew if l did those women
asleep up stairs would probably be burned
to death or hurt. SO I stuck" Higgins said
after his arrest. every minute | ex-
pected them to smell the smoke and come
downstairs, but they didn't"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14

A radio-telephonic apparatus invented
by Licutcnants Colin and .Jeance Of the
French navy has just been tested with
success between Paris and Melun, a dis
lance of thirty miles. One party, which
included high state officials. was station
ed at the Eihel Tower. The receiving in
strument includes a headpiecc complete
ly covering the head in a way to shut out
all the ordinary noises. With this head
piece one could hear the conversation car
ried on between the inventors thirty miles
apart. In 1907 a German inventor named
Poulson was said to have transmitted
wireless telephone messages a distance of
80 miles.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14

A peculiar mishap that may cost tie
sight of one eye has befallen Miss Laura
Steifens. daughter of Jacob Steffens. the
Sacramento. Cal, banker. and sister of
Lincoln Steffcns. the writer. The point
of an indelible pencil she was sharpening
snapped off and struck her right eye. The
c~oloring matter spread and turned the
whole eye the purple color of the pencil,
causOg it to smart and impairing the eye
sight. Miss Steffens is chief of the ex-
tension department Of the State Library,
and it was at the library that the acct
dent happened.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
WINS SUIT AND HIS SON.

j.. S. Cabanne Granted Divorce and
Custody of Recently Stolen Boy
James Shepard Cabanne Jr. has OBJ
tanned a divorce from Mrs. Minnie Leon
ard Cabanne Brandenburg n was
granted the custody Of their son, whom
Broughton Brandenburg of New York
recently took to San Francisco. Mr.. Ca
banne has returned from the Western
city, where he regained possession of the
boy. The divorce case was on the default
docket and no defense was offered. The
prayer of the plaintiff alleged desertion.
Mrs. Cabanue has asserted that she OBJ
tanned n divorce from her former husband
in British Honduras before she was mar
ried to Rrandenburg.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
STARTS "sPITE" SKUNK FARM.
N%eighbor Refuses to Move Rendering
Plant-Novel Revenge Follows.

Neighbor Refuses to Move Rendering
Plant-Novel Revenge Follows.
Rocausc Oscar Neidt refused to move
his animal rendering plant on the
White Horse road, near Trenton, N. j.,
upon the request of his neighbor, Dph-
rain Rockhill, the latter has started
Il skunk farm for spite, and the COM
bfnation Of odors in the vicinity Is
likely to result in the closing of n pub
lie road which passes the two proper
ties. Mr.. Rockhill has planned his
farm in such a manner that the skunks
will be near a small building where
Mr.. Ncidt transacts the business Of his
farm. The skunks have already, began
to make things unpleasant for Neidt,
and he threatens suit.
Neidt, his employees and Rockhill and
his hirelings have to 60 about their
places with rubber protectors on their
noses. The board of health may get
an injunction against both places.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
ASKS $15 900; GIVEN $4,000.

Woman A raFded Big in
Suit Asainst Ferry Company.
Although she only asked $4,000 for
the loss of a foot. a jury in Philadelphia
fave Mrs. Jennie Amos $4,000 damages
IN her suit against the Delaware River
Ferry Company. The woman was a pas
senger on a ferry boat which locked at
Kaighn's Point, Camden. There was nc
gang plank provided for the passengers
as she was about to step from the
boat to the wharf the boat gave a jolt,
throwing her forward. Her left foot was
caught between the boat and the planking
of the slip and crushed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
MINE EXPLOSION INJURIES SEVEN
Use of Forbidden Powder Leads to "A
PANIC In Il COnl Pit.

Use of Forbidden Powder Leads to a
Panic in Il Coal Pit.
An explosion of powder 1000 feet I'M
der ground in the Aroma mine of the Key
stone Coal Company, at Aroma, Pa. seri-
eusly injured seven miners and caused a
panic among POO others. The men were
riding into the mine on a train of cleo
trio cars for the days work. when the ex-
plosion took place. All fed toward the
entrance. Finding there was no evil
dence of gas, some of the men returned
aad attended the injured men, who were
taken to a hospital at Greensburg. Full
minite was used in the mine and the use
of powder was forbidden by the company.
1t is believed a can of five pounds was
being %smuygled into the mine and was
ienited by a spark from the trolley.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
HEPBURN LAW UPHELD
But ROADS NOT HURT
Supreme Court Finds Commodities
Clause Uood, but TAKES Away
Its Effect.
COAL LINES NOT TO SUFFER
Government Interpretation Held to
Be All Wrong and Things Will
Go On as Before.

The railruadewon a unique and sub
stantial victory Monday when the
United States supreme Court. through
Justice White. handed down a deci-
sion declaring the commodities
clause" of the Hepburn act constitu-
tional. but placing an interpretation
upon it which will not compel the car
riers 10 part with their coal proper
ties.
The decision. however. in the case
of the Lehigh Valley and the Della
ware. L~ackawanna and Western roads
at least. requires a enforcement OF
their coal properties. The victory was
unique. because the arguments OF the
Attorney General in favor OF the
clause, as we'll as the arguments OF the
railroad attorneys against the clause,
were lost efforts so far as the Su-
preme Court was concerned.
The decision upholds the constitu-
tionality of the clause, but declares
that its Interpretation by the govern
ment under which it was e~ndeavorins
to compel the railroads to part with
their coal lands, is a false i~nterpreta-
ton. Therefore. were the arguments
of the railroad lawyers combating the
governments Interpretation useless.
Both the government and the railroads
We're, SO to speak, barking up the
wrong tree"
The decision. however, does not in
dictate that the court would view with
hostility an amendment by Congress to
the commodities clause prohibiting
common carriers from owning the Sc
curities Of corporations whose COM
modities they transport.
itI3- Law 1s .:x Effect
The effect of the Supreme Courts
announcement is to make abortlve the
purpose for which the commodities
clause was Incorporated in the Hep
burn amendment. for it makes it pos
sible for the railroads to do by indi-
rection what they cannot do directly
namely, W coal mines and transport
the products therefrom. In order to
do This. however, it Aecomes necessary
for a railroad company either to or
@anize a subsidiary company which
shall be the legal owner of the mines,
or in the event of he railroad COM
Dany'S owning it's mines direct, then
it will become necessary for it to dis
pose in good faith of the output of the
mines before it transports the same.
In other words. the decision places
the seal of approval upon the commodi-
ties clause, but insists that it does not
mean that a railroad company may
not own stock in another company
which controls coal mines the product
of which the railroad company trans.
ports to market, nor does it mean that
if such a railroad company owns its
mines direct. it canno transport their
product, provided it first parts with
it before it becomes interstate traffic.
The decision, therefore, practically
gives the approval of the highest trib-
unal in the land to the method which
is o being pursued by all western
coal owning roads and by the majority
of the eastern coal owning roads, of
mining and selling the products OF
their mines.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14

The largest fee ever paid on the Pa
cifc coast for brief services goes to the
attorneys for Mrs. Lilly Bennett Bald
win for forcing a settlement on Lucky"
Baldwin's will. 1t is approximately
5000. 600. and will be paid out of the es-
tate to former Governor Henry Z. Gage
and Walter J.. 'TraSk. of los Angeles,
and Garrett McEnery, of San Francisco.
Gage is to receive S300.0Oo. Trask $780,
900 and McEnery the remainder. Mrs.
Baldwin will receive 81 ,400,uOO for her.
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14

Because a woman cabin passenger on
the French liner Tournine lifted her skirt
rarelcssly I mel" Sam is richer by $50 in
duty. AS she came down the gang
plank at New York an inspector noticed
that the woman wore d very fine petit
coat. too fine. he thought, for any one
but an heirrss. An investigation was
begun and it was discovered That under
an outside dress the woman wore an cy-
p~ensive evening gown. The duty YVES
paid and the woman was allowed to take
the garment AWAY.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
JOKE COSTS LIFE OF BOY.
Lad Who Tries to Brighten Parents
and Brothers Is Shot and Dies.

At Emporin. Kan. Griffith Hughes,
aged Is years, died as the result OF
having been shot by his younger broth
err. Owen. who mistook him for a bur
glar. Having heard Il noise in the
basement, Griffith jokingly old the fam
lily that there was a burglar in the
cellar. While they armed themselves
preparatory to descending to the base
ment. Griffith Hughes. thinking to
brighten his parents and brother, stole
dow to the basement by way Of the
outside entrance. The younger brother
rushed into the cellar, and hearing a
sound in the darkness, shot and fatal
ly wounded his brother.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
OHIO COAL MAN KILLS HIMSELF,

Hend Of Dies by Own
HIND from Grief and Worry.
Gilbert D.. Preston, president of the In
terstate Coal and Coke Company. shot
and killed himself in the bathroom of his
home in Columbus. For twenty years
Preston was connected with the Johnson
Coal Mining Company and later with the
Lorraine Coal and Dock Company. With
other local men he formed the Interstate
Company. Worry over business affairs
and grief for his young daughter. who
died suddenly Il year ago. are held re-
sponsiblr for his suicide.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
CRAzED BY THOUGHT OF LOSS.

Sight Of Memorial Card Drives
Mother to Murder and Suicide.
Driven insane apparently by the sight
of a memorial card which she had or
dered for her daughter Elsie. who died
about a month ago. Mrs. Bernard Rister
of Stafford Springs, Conn. beat Charles
f. Emory of Boston. who had called to
deliver the cards. on the head with an
Ak, inhicting serious wounds shot and
killed her 2-year-old son Bernard. and
then took her own life by sending a bull
let through her heart.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
FIVE IN FAMILY INSANE IN DAY
Farmer Finds Wife, Daughter and
Three Sons Violent.

James tombstone. a farmer. near Law
ender, Ontario. asked for the arrest of
his wife, daughter and three sons, who
had gone hopelessly insane and threatened
to do him bodily harm. Constables, after
a warm struggle, arrested the five. They
were in a terrible state of frenzy, and
will be sent to an asylum. The wife
was very violent. 1t required three men
to handcuff her. Two of the women were
found nude. The spectacle in court OF
the wife, over 70 years old, n with
gray hair loose down her back and sur
rounded by her children, aged % to 81
years. was pitiable.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
IMPORTS SHOW PROSPERITY.

Gems Valued at $2.l1S,242 and
Autos Worth 315,GG2 Entered.
According to the figures of the New
York customs office the luNurics imported
into this country during April indicate a
return of prosperity. Diamonds, pearls
and other precious stones ag2regating an
appraised value of S2,41S.242.14 were i'm
ported through this port. This is six
times the quantity imported during the
same month last year and is more, by
nearly 100000. than the value Of the
precious stones imported during April Of
1907. In the same month III automo-
biles of the appraised value of $311.GG2.57
were imported.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
COREY PLANS COPPER COMBINE.
Head of Steel Corporation Said to
Have Str0n. Support.

Have Strong
William +. Corey. president of the Uni
ted States Steel Corporation. is trying to
form a big combination of the copper in
terests of the country with a view to
regulating production. eliminating disas-
trous competition and introducing econo-
mics in operation. Mr.. Corcy's efforts
are said not only to have the support Of
Henry H.. Rogers and the A~malgamated
Copper and United Metals Selling Com
panies. but of strong independent inter
ests. Mr.. Corey and his friends recently
gathered together forty of the leading
copper men of the country and submitted
his plan to them. Practically all of them
favored the idea. hut many Of them doubt
ed whether such i combination could be
successfully carried out. The plan, how.
ever, has made some progress.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
J. HAZEN HYDE SENTENCED.

Former Equitable Life Official Or
dered to Jail and Pay 500.
James Hazen Hyde. of New York, for
merly vice president of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, and his chauffeur.
Lawdice. were sentenced in Paris in de-
fault, Mr.. Hyde to one months imprison-
ment and TO pay a fine of 500, and Lad
vice to a months Imprisonment and to
pay $50. They were charged with run
ming into a public taxicab last October
u injuring a passenger. The complain
ants asserted that after the accident Lad
vice sped away. Under a law passed last
July flight after an accident is a special
offense. At present Mr.. Hyde is on an
automobile trip in the Riviera.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
Noted PrfDa Donna Is Dead.

News was given out Wednesday that
Johanna Poehlmann, famous opera sing
err. who sang with Conreid, is dead at a
private sanitaTium in Lebanon. Ohio.
She died of pneumonia, although she en-
tered the institution to be treated for
cancer
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
Continues Mt Admin.

AdGna. Asiatic Turkey. is still lawless.
More persons were killed in the city Sun
day. There are 10000 dead in Adana
province as a result of the massacres,
and $4,000 homeless and penniless refu-
gees are wandering in the v~illayet.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14

Sacrificing one eye that he might escape
total blindness, Congressman Charles A.
Crow of Charlottesville, Mo-. submitted to
sn operation at a hospital in st. Louis.
He probably will recover. Mr.. Crows
right eye was removed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14

John A. Adams, alias DR." WEIGH
ers. formerly of Buffalo. N. Y, was
found guilty of deceiving by a fraudulent
marriage Rosa REM of Louisville, KY,
and was sentenced by Judge Connolly Of
Detroit to two and one-half to five years.
Imprisonment.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
Hrp1hcr and sister Drown.

William and p"arl Withra, brother and
sister, were drowned as n result of a boat
capsizinr at Lakewood. near Atlanta. Ga.
The boat overturned when i squall struck
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
Against the Church Hats.

In several cities the movement among
churches to prevent the wearing of hats
by women during services has taken
shape recently. The Methodist churches
are particularly active in this canse. At
Richmond, Va, the board of the First
Methodist Church on Tuesday voted to
require all women attendants at service
to remove their hats. In the Metropoi-
tan Tabernacle at New York the minis
ter has proposed to have a room set aside
for the women to lay off their hats and
to adjust them after service. The West
ern Christian Advocate Of Cincinnati
asks "What are our Christian women
thinking Of? Are they such devotees Of
fashion that they must han these I'M
seemly, hideous, %outlandish constructions
to church with them to make the devout
groan and the undevout almost svearE
It is our solemn conviction that this,
which looks like such a trivial matter,
amounts to almost an absolute moral Of
Tense and sim" The First Baptist Church
of Somerville. a Boston suburb, has Off
cially barred from service all women who
refuse to remove their hats before enter
ing the auditorium.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
MetcnIf Runs Bank.

Victor H.. Metcalf. former Secretary
of the Navy. has assumed the active man
agement of the Union Savings Bank. in
Oakland. Cal. He has been elected vice
president and general manager OF the
ha nix.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
Pin Make. Circuit of woman. Body.

After travelling four months through
the body of Mrs. Oakla Bay Jennings,
piercing the walls OIL the stomach and
penetrating the lungs, a g~lass-headed
steel pin, accidentally swallowed by Mrs.
Jennings, who lives in Cincinnati, again
made it's appearance in her mouth, and
has been extracted. The other night
night she was seized by severe choking,
threw up her hands and called to her
husband for assistance. The woman put
her hand to her mouth and extracted the
pin from the soft palate, from which one
end protruded. The pin had made a COM
pIeted circuit of her body and had be-
come very rusty. Mrs. Jennings expert
enced instant relief and is hoping for ul-
innate recovery. Her lungs had become
affected.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
OWN WORK HIS DEATH TRAP,

Engineer Drowned IN ane
pnnion EScnDe~.
A. II. Demrick. an electrical engineer,
in charge of all electrical and power con-
struction under the Salt River valley re-
clamation project. was drowned in the
s%luicing tunnel. 600 feet long, near Phoe-
nix. Ariz. A.. l.. Harris, assistant to G.
l.. Smith. in charge of construction at
Rozvelt. was swept through the tunnel
with Demrick. but emerged in the river
without serious injury.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14

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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14

When the Turks ambassador,
Hussein KAHN. received official word
of the change of rulers in Turkey he
at once went in person to the State
Department, and with every evidence
of pleasure, conveyed the information
to the American Government. The
news was also received direct from the
American Ambassador in CONSTANT
nople. A reply in due form was soon
delivered, saying that the President
had that day cabled congratulations
to the new Sultan. Mehmcd V.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14

The dispute over the question OF re-
sponsibility and authority in the con-
duct of the next census, which for
several days had threatened either the
dismissal of Director North OF the re-
tirement of Secretary Nagel, appears
to- have been settled amicably after
several conferences with the Presi-
dent. Mr.. North disclaimed any in
tention or desire to usurp authority
over matters properly belonging to
the Secretary.