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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
IN Happy Address President
CongratuIates Wrights on
Achievements.
FOR SERVICE, NOT FOR WAR

Washington, D.. c., June 14.--In the
presence of distinguished statesmen
foreign diplomats, members OF the cab
met. noted scientists and prominent
aeronauts and aviators, Wilbur and Or
vile Wright, the two inventors Of the
first successful flying machine heavier
than air, received public recognition OF
their achievements from their fellow
countrymen. President Taft in hand
ing the medals to the brothers ex-
pressed keen admiration for their work
and ventured the belief that their fly
Ing machine will be the basis Of the
future aerial craft and made the
prophecy that the dawn of the age OF
flight IL here.
Miss Katherine Wright, sister Of the
aeroplanists, accompanied them here
and was quite as much lionized. After
President Taft had congratulated the
brothers individually he turned to Miss
Wright and said:
And / a to congratulate the most
important member of the family"
In presenting the medals to the
Wright brothers, President Taft said
81 esteem 1t a great honor to have an
opportunity to present the medals to
you as, an evidence of what you have
done. I am glad, perhaps, at a delayed
hour. to show that In America 1t is not
true that a prophet Is not without hon
or ave In his own country
1T Is especially : gratifying thus to
note a great discovery in human con
omy by paying honor to men who bear
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
TAFT ADMITS HE ISN'T
BUILT FOR AN

It so modestly. You made this disccv-
cry by a course that we OF America
like to feel is distinctly American, by
keeping u nos right at the Job UNI.
til you had accomplished what you had
determined to do.
TT has been said that this Is the first
presidential recognition Of aeronautics
since President Washington. Well, ali
l have to say is that I had q ~predeces-
sor, who, IL aeronautics had proceeded
as far when he left Office as they have
today, would not only have gone down
under the water in a submarine boat,
but would ave gone up into the ain
in a flying machine. No a had a
more earnest interest and a greater
desire to see into the things that make
for progress than my predecessor.
There may be some reasons why
some presidents have not figured In
aeronautics. / see hat these gentle
men who have flown in the air are con-
structed more on the plan OF birds than
some OF us. -. 49,.
Il don't like to think and I decline
to think that these instrumentalities
that you have invented for humanity
are to be confined in their utility To
war. 1 presume that they will have
great value in war, and I suppose that
all of us. representatives Of the various
governments, ought to look at this
matter, following the rule Of govern
ments of today, from the standpoint Of
their utility In war, but I sincerely
hope hat those of us who now look az
them as not for us may count on their
ability to carry more than thin pas
sengers in times OF peace.
Il congratulate you on the result OF
your efforts. / congratulate you ON the
recognition you have received from all
the crowned heads of Europe, and !
congratulate o that in receiving II
you maintain the modest and dignihed
demeanor worthy of American citizen
Shin ...--.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17

coalition Of the principal states against
Sac Paulo, which has supplied all past
presidents. DIR. Penna was one OF Dom
Pedro's ministers who accepted and
supported the republic after it's procla-
nation. He had been president OF his
state and governor of the Bank of the
Republic. He was vice president of the
republic and president OF the senate at
the time of his election to the chief
magistracy. &"
The vice president of the republic to-
day is Milo Pecanha.
Reduced Duty on American Goods.
Among the important acts of DR..
Penna's administration was the author
ization of the $50, 900, 900 naval loan, the
reduction of the duty on American pro-
ducts, the raising OF the duty on sugar
and the signing Of an arbitration treaty
with Argentina.
DIR. Penna received the officers OF
the American battleship fleet on its
cruise around the world in January Of
1908.
On June 10 it was announced in Rio de
Janeiro that Marschal Hermes Fonseca
was a candidate for the presidency in
succession to the presidency OF Brazil.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
HEARST WILL STOCK
MEXICO RANCH NO. 2

Mexico City, June 16.-Four hundred
and fifty thousand acres of land in tho
state of Campeche will be converted in
to an immense stock ranch by william
Randolph Hearst, at a cost said to be
In the millions,
The ranch will be stocked with i'm
ported Holstein, Durham and other
high grade market and milch cattle of
the same stock that Hearst has on his
million and a half acres in the state
OF Chihuahua.
r. w. Smith, Mr.. Hearst's represent
alive in Chihuahua, and H. M. Lerch,
of Baltimore, Md, who has charge Of
the Hearst cattle industry, have gone
to locate sites for the improvements,
which will include dwellings, ware
houses, a narrow gauge railroad to the
coast and making navigable two rivers.
The land belongs to MI. Hearst I'M
his mother. 1t was granted to his
father, United States Senator Hearst
who leased it to chiccory growers, but
instead OF bringing revenue has been
a. source OF expense. .
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
DICKINSON GIVES
ADVICE TO CADETS
Secretary of War Distributes
Diplomas at West Point
Graduation.

West Point, N. Y, June IA. - At
commencement day exercises at the
United States Military academy today
Secretary of War Dickinson, who pre-
scented the members OF the graduating
GLASS with their diplomas and adj
dressed them, was the guest in chief.
Secretary Dickinson said: So.
Today the eyes of all our people are
turned to you with profound interest.
hope n confidence, for they are invest
ing you with q sacred trust-that OF main
tanning the glory OF an institution which
has greatly enriched the civil life of the
nation and has always been its chief bull
wark In time Of war.
Whatever distrust on account of military
establishments may have existed. or yet
zens, West Point is secure in the over
whelming general confidence Of our peo-
pie and will have their continued support
for the fulhllment OF its great purpose as
its establishment A an object OF primary
Importance and that 1t should be per
manent.''
All or you, those who continue In the
service and those who may enter upon
civil careers, have a great prestige to sus-
tain. West Pointers ave so generally
maintained the standard OF honor, obedi-
ence TO the law, love of liberty n fdel-
fly TO duty that the name is always &C
cepted as prima facie. evidence that its
bearer Is all that is implied In it's highest
sense in the fine old term, "A gentleman, I"
You have passed through the rigorous
dicipline and high curriculum that entities
you to admission into that ine company:
Believing that you will prove yourself
worthy of such noble fellowship and that
in peace and war you will justify the con-
tldence and expectation of your friends
and countrymen, 1t is not merely exercis-
ing h p~rerogative OF the Office which
hold, but with a profound sense OF the
honor the occasion affords me that l pre-
sent to you your diplomas. a.,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
"TENNlS CABINET" TO
TELL BIG SECRETS

Washington, d. c., June 16.-The
Roosevelt Tennis cabinet" is to make
one more bid for public recognition be-
fore 1t takes permanently to the shelf
where 1t was laid pom the departure
OF its chief from the White House. Two
of it's most prominent members In the
persons of James Rudolph Garfield, late
secretary of the interior, and Clifford
Pinchot, chief forester. of the depart
ment of agriculture, have their heads
together at this moment at West Men
tor, Ohio. The fruits of their conniv,
ing will be a large and interesting vol
ume entitled, "Rooseyelt's Administra-
ton"
1t is whispered about Washington
that other members of the now famous
aggregation OF comparatively young
federal Office holders and all7round
hustlers from all walks of life whom
the late president invited successfully
to his council room, lunch table and
tennis court, are preparing to give to
the public some inside facts concerning
the great sever years of the admins
tration recently closed.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
PREFERRED HUSBAND
TO COLLEGE DIPLOMA

Minneapolis, Mimi. June 14--Prefer-
ring a husband to q diploma from the
University of Minnesota, Miss Leona
Woolsey, who was to have received her
degree today, welded John 8. Muir, a
student in the law college, yesterday
afternoon.
Miss Woolsey from Fort Dodge.
Ia, and her husband is a native of
Hampton, in the same state. The mar
riage ia the elimination of a romance
that has extended owe several years.
The couple were married at the home
Of N. Dawson, OLA Fifteenth we south
east, Minneapolis, by Rev. w. III. Jor-
dan, pastor Of the First Methodist Epis-
copal church. Four university students
were the only witnesses.
The secret was to have been kept
until the happy couple had left the city
on their wedding journey to Chicago,
but when Mr.. Muir opened his cigar
store. in Southeast Minneapolis. this
morning he could not resist the tempta-
ton to stand treat" on his good luck.
They left for Chicago soon afterwards.
The husband, in addition to running
a store, is studying law at the uni
versity and has n more year to at
tend to complete his course.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
SMITH %SURRENDERS
.... TO PRISON WARDEN

Chicago, June 16.--The long fight of
former Judge Abner Smith to escape
the penitentiary ended today when
Sheriff Strassheim received a telegram
from Warden, Murphy, of the Joliet
penitentiary, that Smith had surren-
dered himself at the prison.
Abner Smith, for years a respected
Judge of the circuit court, was con-
victed Of violating the banking laws
while president of the now defunct
Bank of America. 1t was charged that
he had profited greatly by his manipu-
lation of the banks funds. After his
conviction Judge Smith fought the case
through the appellate and supreme
courts, losing at each stage. He then
appealed to the pardon board and the
governor. The pardon board last week
refused his request for a mitigation of
punishment. His reprieve expired to-
day and the sheriff who has been spe-
officially ordered by the supreme court
to execute it's mandate of imprisonment
was in readiness to take the former
judge to prison tomorrow.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
QUITS NAVY FOR ARMY
RATHER THAN NOT WED

- Washington, June 16.-"oh. very
WELL" said William G.. Koenig, of Rush,
Tex, first class man at Annapolis, when
he read the latest order of the secre-
tary Of the navy. The order was to
the effect that midshipmen should not
until they completed their two
years cruise.
Midshipman Koenig was engaged to
marry Miss Eugenia Mccoy, of BaIti-
more, Immediately after graduation.
The young man. after -four years train
ing, wished to remain In the service OF
his country, but he also was deter
mined to wed.
Thinking 1t over he came to Wash
ington and took examination to enter
the Coast Artillery as second lieuten-
ant. He passed, and as soon as the
commission Is signed and delivered
there will be a wedding in Baltimore.
The navy will have lost a promising
young officer and the army will have
ga:rsi a family. % t
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
VIM. J. BRYAN'S
SON WILL WED

Jennings Bryan, jr., only son OF the
peerless leader, and Miss Helen Berger.
daughter of Alexander Berger, well
known here and throughout the north
went rs a big grain and -four dealer,
will be married Thursday, June "a.
The announcement was made today.
The ceremony will be performed at
the Colorado summer home of Mr.. Ber-
ger. a beautiful bungalow at Grand
Lake. Shortly after the young couple
will take up their residence at Tucson,
Ariz., where young Bryan has extern
sive interests launched by his father.
Miss Berger is a strikingly hand
some young woman, devoted to out
door sports, highly educated and ac-
complished. Young Mr.. Bryan strongly
resembles his mother in appearance
and tastes. .". .. "
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
Supreme Court UphoIds the
CIothesIine With All Its
Varied Exhibits.

New York, June 14.-JustiCe Minturn.
of he New Jersey supreme court, has
decided that q poor man has a right
TO hang out underclothing on a clothes
line in front OF his house. even II his
wealthy neighbors are scandalized
thereby. The opinion Of Justice Min
turn was given in quashing an indict-
ment found about a year ago by the
grand jury OF Monmouth county
against James M. Alligor, of Seabright.
Alligor has a little one-story shanty
on the Rumson road, his near neigh
bors being Cornelius N. Bliss, w. F.
Havemeyer, M. c. d. Borden, c. b.
Alexander and James Loeb, all of
whom are reported to be in quite COM
fortable circumstances. About a year
ago Alligor opened an ice cream parlor
I'm his shanty. 1t didn't pay, and he
blamed the poor business on his neigh
bors. Sc he put out a sign reading:
This place closed because of {:
. m%illionaires' boycott" :
........
A few days later he replaced that
sign with this one:
=: This property to let. Negroes {:
a: preferred" {:
A week or two later, Alligor set up
q pole in front of his place and strung
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
THEY ARE CALLING
MARE TWAIN A PIRATE

New York, June 1.-THE incorpor-
alton. by S. L. Clemens, mark Twain.
Of copious excerpts from another au-
thor into his latest book, without Civ
ing credit, has started a publishers
controversy. ..... y
Mr.. Clemens admits he incorporated
in the book a larger part of a chapter
from a volume called The Shakespeare
Problem Re-steted," written by George
M. Greenwood, M. p, Of Londor. "a
takes up % of the $50 pages in NJ Il
Twain's book. He mentioned Mr..
Greenwood's book in his own work, but
neglected to mention Mr.. Greenwood's
name.
Mr.. Greenwood's publishers In Lon
don have sent word that they will not
permit Twain's book to be circulated
in England until the plates are altered.
giving Mr.. Greenwood credit that
should GO to him. They have no pow
err to prevent the sale here.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
MRS. SAGE HAS GIVEN
AWAY Is MILLIONS
Great Gifts to Charity and HUI
mainly Compared to Russell
Sage's Perjury.

New York, June 14.-In less than
three years Mrs. Russell Sage has
spent more than $25, 900, 900 for public
purposes and the benefit Of mankind.
The recent investigation abroad OF the
question of workingmen's insurance
and the establishment Of a gigantic
employment bureau, call attention
anew to her prolific bounty. #
It took Russell Sage so a to get
SOS, 900, 900. This great sum amounted
to SO, 500 a day for the lifetime Of the
financier. @@ "a
Mrs. Sage is now giving away the
fortune at the rate Of $4,000 a day,
If the widow continues her charities
at the pace she has set, all will be
gone I'm Ave years. Comparison OF tho
fnanciar's power to make money with
Mrs. Sage's faculty Of giving 1t away.
shows that the widow Is giving away
81 in the same time that 1t took Mr..
Sage to accumulate the ~proverbial
$40 cents." n.a
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
.C0RUORAL SHOOTS
SUPERIOR OFFICER

Des Moines. Ia, June 1S.-Captain
John G.. Raymond, in or
Troop b, of the Second cavalry. sta
toned at Fert Des Moines, who was
shot down by Corporal Crabtree Sun
day noon, lies at the hospital in a most
precarious condition. He is able to
move his head a trifle. Surgeons ex-
pect to probe for the bullet today. 1t
is lodged next to the spine in the back
Of the patients neck. At Mercy hos
pital surgeons said today that chances
are against the of Captain
Raymond. Should he survive the OPP
Grafton he will be paralyzed for life,
they say. N.. ..
Shoots Superior Officer.
Dies Moines, Ia, Jun~ 16.-Corporal
Lisle Crabtree yesterday afternoon
fatally shot Captain John G. Raymond,
commanding officer OF Troop B, second
United States cavalry, at Fort Des
Moines, hen shot and seriously injured
First Sergeant James III. Washburn
and Corporal Elijah Such, who at
tempted to disarm him, and then shot
himself. ..gHaa.
Crabtree's injuries are not neces-
sarily fatal, the bullet striking a rib
above the heart and crushing 1t. Crab
tree had been reprimanded by Captain
Raymond because Of his failure to re-
pOIl WHGn Ills lCdNc vi db5CllSS Ia CA
pired. He had spent the night in Des
Moines and was to have returned to his
barracks al z a. m. Crabtree was sum-
moned by Captain Raymond and ques-
toned as to his conduct, w"hereupon the
corporal holly insisted he had leave
Of absence until z o'clock tonight. Cap
tain Raymond accepted this explana-
ton and the incident was considered
closed, when Crabtree demanded that
he be transferred to another depart
nent of the army, which Captain Ray
mond refused to consider. telling the
corporal he could not do that as long
as he was not a good soldier.
Two Shots Effective.
Immediately Crabtree pulled a revolt
yer from his pocket and began firing,
Sergeant Washburn jumped to his feet
and grappled with the soldier, receiving
d bullet in the hand and n in the
Jaw, which shattered the bone.
Captain Raymond had seized the
mans arm and was about to disarm
him when a bullet struck him in the
neck, lodging in the spine, and he
dropped to the floor, paralyzed.
A bullet struck Corporal Such in the
left arm. Crabtree then fired a bullet
INTO his own body. "sa,. ..
Captain Raymond is the son Of Brig
adler General Charles w. Raymond, re-
tired, formerly of the engineers In
charge OF rivers and harbors and sta
toned at New York. His brother Is
Major Robert Raymond, of h en-
gineers stationed at New York. Captain
Raymond is 38 years old and a member
Of one of the most well known military
families in the East. He was commits
stoned from Pennsylvania. n
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WOMAN DOCTOR IS
BLACK HANDS VICTIM

Chicago, June 14.-Dr. JEANNE
Beardsley, II Is Learned today. is the
last victim of an alleged black hand"
plot In Chicago. She was stabbed
twice in the breast and stomach as
she answered a knock at the back door
OF her home at 6508 Peoria st., last
night. Two detectives were hiding In
the house to guard h woman against
just such an attack. 1t was a steel
ribbed corset that saved her life. The
assassin struck his blows and escaped
in the darkness before the detectives
could reach the door. .
DR.. Beardsley, who Is a practicing
physician of middle age, received a
letter several days ago threatening her
life If she did not place $500 in a des-
ignated spot. -
The letter, which she turned over to
the police, was signed with a rude imi-
tation Of q black hand IND a skull and
,cross-bones.
The letter threatened the oma
with death in her own home IL she
did not get busy with the money.
A detective accompanied her in her
automobile as she made the rounds OF
visits to her patients, and two others
were concealed in her home.
DIR. Beardsley was about to retire
for the night. when summoned to he
back door. h stepped into the
kitchen unaccompanied by the officers
and opened the door. She was so
stunned by the suddenness OF the at
tack that o until her assailant had
fed did she cry for help. The would
be murderer slammed the door in her
lace and, uttering an oath as he did
SO, escaped over a rear fence.
DR.. Beardsley expressed the opinion
hat the weapon used was a razor. Her
assailant attempted to draw it across
her throat, but instead drew it across
a breach which she wore. Sne was not
injured. DR.. Beardsley vas unable to
give the police q good description OF
the man'who attacked her.
Two Letters.
The first Of two unsigned letters re-
ceived by the physician was placed in
her mail box last Tuesday, and read:
Your life or $500. Leave 1t at the
southeast corner of Sixty-sixth street
and Center avenue, Wednesday night,
before IL o'clock. IL you notify h po-
lice, I will shoot you dead"
a second letter was thrown through
a window Wednesday, morning, and
read as follows:
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
MANILA BAY HERO QUITS.

Washington. June 14.-Lieutenant
Commander II. H. Caldwell, who, as
an aide, stood with Admiral Dewey
on the bridge of the Olympia It the
battle OF Manila, has forwarded ms
resignation from the navy by wire
from Seattle, and it has been accepted.
Ill health is understood to be the
cause.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
GENERAL KoUNTz,
DRUMMER BOY OF
MISSION RIDGE" is DEAD

Toledo, Ohio, June 16.-General John
F. Kountz, former national commander
of the G. A. r., who died today, was
widely known among G. A. r. men as
the Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge"
General Kountz earned the title
when, as a drummer boy OF Is years, he
seized a musket and Joined in the
charge at Missionary Ridge, losing his
leg. .'.. 81
While national commander in 1884,
acting with General Rosecrans, General
Kountz obtained from the pope a de-
cision freeing the G. A. r. from ques
ton as q secret society. rt
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Some of the Monmouth county OFF,
Gals took umbrage at these signs, and
the millionaires were put out at the
display of undergarments. They went
before the grand jury and had Alligor
indicted for making a nuisance Of HIM
self. His friends hired a lawyer to
take the case to the supreme court,
dictment, said:
The indictment sets forth that the
said Alligor caused the exhibition, upon
rope from his building to a pole near
the edge of the highway, Of a pair OF
blue o%veralls, one pair of dirty white
overalls, n old piece of bed ticking,
two pairs of ladies' white undergar-
ments and two pairs Of mems red fan
mel undergarments."
Then the justice went on to say that
he had a perfect right to exhibit that
interesting collection If he wished to.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
TO DEVELOP
LAND IN PALESTINE
American Scientists Plan to
Repopulate Country With
Hebrew Farmers.

New York, June 16.--The annual
convention OF the Federation Of Amer
Jean Scientists was continued in this
city today with a parade through the
most crowded streets of Ghetto dis
tricts. This was followed by a recep-
ton to delegates In Clinton hall.
Further discussion OF the financial
aspects OF the plan to repopulate Pal
Pstine with Hebrew farmers was on
today's program. A committee has
ben appointed to consider a plan pro-
bosed by Simon Goldman, OF st. Louis,
for the organization of land develops
ment companies in Palestine.
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JUNCTION CITY, KAMA carload
Of liquor ordered by the soldiers at
Fort Riley, arrived, but Colonel Ward,
the commandant, would not let the men
have 1t. The colonel put guards over
the car and Insisted that 1t must be
sent back to Kansas City. The strin-
gent laws recently passed by the legis-
lature make It impossible to buy liquor
In Kansas. The soldiers, FESTIVE under
the enforced dry conditions, nlaced lib
eral orders with a liquor agent, who
was here last week, on pay day. Colonel
Ward contends that liquor In the milf
tary quarters interferes with the disci,
pine,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-17
RUSSIAN STRIKE TIES
UP STREET CAR LINES

st, Petersburg, June ia general
strike of the electrical and a m
ployes of st. Petersburg began today.
The men demand an increase in pay
and q different arrangement in shifts.
The employers declare they will not
concede either point. Although the de-
mandS are purely economic, the strike
has u political basis and was arranged
by tho social democrats to test their
strength. Tie cab men OF the capital
have taken advantage OF the situation
TO collect double fares. No disorders
have occurred.