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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
NORTH HAND

August Shaefer's brother-in-law.
M. Schniding. left for his home in
Iowa on Monday. He has been
experimenting the building of his
property in Fairview.
The Nabors in Fairyiew had a
family party on Sunday.
J. Waters, of Harrison, was in
Orient on business Monday.
Floy Blue. of Harrison, went to
Sioux Falls on visit last week.
Herman Gross. of Harrison, is
building a new house.
Miss Moses, of Watertown, is
making an extended visit at August
Schaefer's IN Spring.
Casper Eggerling has just return
ed to his home in Fairview after q
short stay in Orient.
Mr. and Mrs Joe Struif, of Howell,
were trading in Orient Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs James McDormid and
family returned last Friday from a
three weeks visit with friends at
Rushford, MINI.
Messrs Harvey Hall and J. Shap-
tuck visited few days last week
with friends in Selby.
Miss Cora Rudd, of Miller, was
visiting friends in this vicinity last
week.
Mrs Lee Hurd. o Hand City. was
the guest of Mrs Elliot of Orient q
few days last week.
Two milwaukee surveyors went
south through this part the first of
the week.
The folio wing among others at
tended the circus at Huron last Wed.
nesday, Geo. Campbell, Henry Frick,
Ter, Frank and Carrie Matter.
1t is announced that Mr. Benjohn,
of Fairview. has sold his farm.
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HENSHAW HOTEL
SELLS FOR $4,000
G. II. Henshaw Will Retire From
The Business

Among the many real estate trans
feres this week was the purchase of
the Henshaw Hotel by Jhon Pusev
for consideration o. $4,000 Mr.
Pusey has purchased a first class
hotel and one of the best IN this part
of the state.
w. J. Pusev takes charge of the
business this morning and will con-
duct an up to date hotel in every re-
spect having had experience in hotel
and restaurants.
Mr. Henshaw retires from the
hotel business after several very
successful years, and will confine
himself to conducting his livery
business.
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CYCLONE HITS
BIG STONE
Killing Four and Injuring Fifteen
Others

Mllbank. July IA cyclone
struck Big Stone City and Orton-
vile, Mimi. yesterday afternoon at
a o'clock killing one man at Big stone
and four at Ortonville.
The Dead are; John Degrees, hack
driver, Big Stone; four Italians at
Ortonville.
Injured: Fifteen Italians at Orton-
vile.
The storm struck on the western
bank on Big Stone and went in a
southeasterly direction towards Or
tonville. On the Dakota side John
Dezrees. the hack driver was return
ing from the depot and part way to
the chautauqua grounds, when the
hack was struck by flying missile.
killing Degrees instantly. A boy
setting on the seat was blown
$50 feet into the edge of the lake and
was uninjured.
At Ortonville, the storm struck the
depot ripping shingles off the roof
and demolishlng telegraph wires and
poles. 1t tstruck the roundhouse con-
tanning one engine. The roundhouse
was completely demolished. The en-
gine was tipped, but left on the track
and all the sheds torn down and
strewn around for mile. Near the
roundhOuse several bunk cars con-
tainlng Italians were struck. They
were tossed IN all directions, four of
the occpants were killed outright,
fifteen injured and two more died
later.
The passenger train on the Milwau.
kee. going west, pulled out Of Big
Stone about ten minutes before the
storm struck. Upon arriving in the
Bluff Engineer Starr saw the danger
and stopped his train to see which
way the storm was working. Motto
ing that it was going east he put OF
full head of steam making a yer,
fast run to Milbank just pulling hi.
cargo of human freight out of th'
path of the storm.
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DON'T FORGET THE
DATES, JULY 70, Il, z
S2.5OO.OO to be Paid to the Win
nerS of Races

ONLY four more days left before
the big race event begins, and every
thing is in readiness for it. The
track has been worked into good
condition, and the city streets are
being cleaned up and graded so that
Miller will be looking her best to
the big crowds coming from the
surrounding towns and counties.
One of the best features of the
meet is q race between Dolly Mix,
of Miller, and Mark Hanna, of
Highmore. to be held the second
day of the meet, for a special purse
of 5000. These two horses have
met twice before, first in Highmore
where Dolly Mix won over Mark
Hanna. and next at the State Fair
at Huron where Mark Hanna took
first. AS a result of these two races
there has been considerable specu-
lation as to which horse was the
faster. Efforts have been made at
several different times to get race
between them. but for some reason
the Miller horsemen never succeed
ed until now. This race has caused
considerable enthusiasm and some
of the admirers of gamey Dolly are
betting odds that she will carry off
the purse.
A ball game will be played each
day of the races in the forenoons,
the Miller team playing in all three
games, Tuesdays game with Wes-
sington, Wednesdays game with
Rec Heights, and Thursdays game
with Blunt. These games will all
be COOL ones as Miller has added
several new PLAYERS to their team.
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VlCTOR'S TRIAL
is POSTPONED
Prisoner Is Not Yet Ready For
Trial

Aberdeen, July l3.-The prelimi-
nary hearing of Emil Victor, charg-
ed with the murder of the Christie
family and Michael Ronayne a week
ago last Saturday near Rudolph was,
to be held yesterday morning at the
court house, but was postponed.
States Attorney Van Slyke gives as
the reason for adjournment that
Victor. who has written to his rela-
tives for aid, has not yet been heard
from, and as the state is disposed to
give him all the chance possible to
clear himself of the awful charge
hanging over him, the adjournment
was taken. A large crowd which
gathered to hear the case and see
the prisoner was bitterly disappoint-
ed. Some people came in from the
country and other towns to attend
the hearing.
CuDpocIldS WcIt lSSucu lOf VIII
nesses to appear on the 20tn inst.
but there is no reason to believe that
the hearing will be held at that time
for the prisoner may not be ready
then. The date was set merely in
order that there should be a time
fixed without having to indefinitely
postpone
1t was learned yesterday that a
man who lives on the north side
claims to have seen Victor building
a fire at the edge of the bush near
the Christie home on the evening
proceeding the tragedy. 1t is claim
ed that this man recognized the
pictures of Victor printed IN the
American on Sunday morning as be-
ing those of the man whom he saw.
Sheriff Anderson and States At
torney Van Slvke were notified and
are looking this man up.
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Miller 2, Washington 4

The Miller ball team and about
fifty faithfuls went to Washington
Sunday where Miller and Washington
crossed bats. Miller got two men
over the plate, one in the first inning
and one in the third. but after that
they failed to connect with Pfaum's s
classy curves at opportune times.
Wessington's scores came in the
fifth and sixth innings. when they
brought in two men each inning.
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Child-Rescue Work

It was announced last month that
the scope of The Delineator's Child
Rescue work had been broadened so
that the number of children saved
from institutional life could be great
ly increased. Instead of the few
whose portraits appear in the maya
zines, the many who wait every
where in homes and asylums will
have their chances. The fact that
more than six hundred applications
for one boy were filed. justifies the
effort to supply childless homes as
rapidly as possible. When in place
of five children, FIVE hundred find
love and parental care each month,
then, indeed, the ranks of the one
hundred thousand waiting ones in
asylums and other institutions soon
will be appreciably thlnned. While
the plan of presenting a few por-
traits of children in each issue of
the magazine has carried with it,
from the beginning of the child-res-
cue work. the idea that more than
those specifically mentioned would
find homes, the new method of con-
ducting the campaign assures more
rapid and more far-resching results.
The Delineator for August.
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CROP OUTLOOK
is FAVORABLE
Figures Show Large Increase
Over Last Year

Minneapolis, July l2.-With the
corn and oats prospects in the west
and northwest the best ever known
IN July and estimated increase over
last years crop of more than 500, ,OOC
bushels and more than 25, 900 bush
els in excess of the record-break-
ing harvest of 1906; with unprece-
dented prices for cash grains pre-
vailing in spite of the prospects for
the biggest crop in the country's S
history; with the granaries cleaned
out at this time of the hold-oyer
harvest, as they have not been for
many years, owing to the high
prices that have prevailed for
months; with the tariff bill nearing
its final disposition in Washington,
and the business world clearing the
decks for a recor d-breaking dash,
the country is believed to be enter
ing upon period of prosperity that
will surpass even the memorable
revival and expansion of the McKin-
ley era.
The government crop report esti-
mates based on present prospects an
aggregate harvest of all grains of
6. 5.062. 800, 900 bushels, or 725, 5000
bushels more than the harvest of
1908 and 223. 900, 900 bushels in ex-
cess of the record-breaking harvest
of 1906, when the yeild was 4.S39,-
0O0.000 bushels.
In short. the greatest crop Of GER
eals ever raised in the United States
is growing to maturity. according
indications.
Some Mighty Figures
The values of these great farm
products on the basis of probable
prices will reach So, $50, ,OOO, 900,
December corn closed on the Chica-
go board Of trade yesterday ut Sc
cents. Figuring the crop as worth
so cents to the farmer, wheat at 80,
oats at 40 rye at 70 and barley at
so, these totals are obtained.
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Low Rates to Seattle
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Presbyterian Church

Rev. C. Howard CRUDE. Pastor.
Services Sunday at Miller HOO a.
m. and in st. Lawrence at l2:45 p. m.
Sunday Bible School at 11:30 in st
Lawrence and at 1915 m. in Miller.
Junior Endeavor on Thursday
evening at 7.
Christian Endeavor each place
every Sunday evening at G:30.
Evening service will remain a:
800 on alternate Sunday evenings.
Church prayer meeting every
Thursday evening at Miller at 500
The Wonen's Home and Foreign
Missionary society meets the last
Wednesday of each month at 800
All are cordially invited to attend
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5000. 900. 900

The report of the department of
agriculture does not indicate that
there will be serious shortage of
breadstuffs in this country this year
although the figures to date show a
considerable loss in winter wheat, as
compared with year ago, the esti-
mated loss in round numbers being
al 900, 900 bushels.
Acreage Is s.Lsrger
To considerable extent this is
offset by a larger acreage and a
greater yield of spring wheat, which
brings the total indicated crop of
wheat up to 693, 900, 900 bushels, as
compared with 66l 100000 bushels
at the same time in 1908. Some i'm
portant interests in the trade figure
that the consumptive demand has
grown enough to absorb this differ
ence, and that before the entire
crop is harvested we will run into a
period of actual shortage rather
than a surplus. 1t is also figured
that foreign requirements easily
will take all wheat which is not
needed for domestic purposes. As
crop conditions are generally under
stood to be unsatisfactory in most
of the old world grain raising dis
tricts.
An important fea ture of the re-
port was the estimate showing the
amount of wheat left in farmers
hands to be a trife more than 15,-
600, 900 bushels. This is great
deal less than had been expected,
and was a big surprise to many
who had figured on much larger
amount.
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Methodist Church Services.

Preaching next Sunday, by the
pastor at HOO m.
S. S. at 1900.
Epworth League devotional meet
ing at TOO p. m.
Preaching at Miller at 800
D. m.
All are invited to attend.
O. w. Butterfield, Pastor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

For Sale-A Buffalo-Pitts thresh-
ing machine for sale cheap and on
best of terms. Rig in good shape
and ready to run. Call at my place
three miles southeast of Rec Heights.
32t4 Ruggenburg & Clark,
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Via The North West.

Via The North Western Line
Excursion tickets to New York
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agara Falls. Atlantic City. The best
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The North Western Line, 32t2
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Christian Scientists

The Christian Scientists of this
city hold regular Sunday and mid.
week services at their Reading room
in the Masonic Temple. Sundays at
HOO a. m, Wednesdays 7:3Op. m.
All are cordially invited.
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Roman Cathojic

Mass at $50 a. m. and at 1870 a.
m. first Sunday of every month, and
at 1890 a. m. third Sunday. Sun
day school at 800 p. m. every
Sunday.
Rev. Father Fox. Pastor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

For rent or sale-The Butts prop
erty on 3rd and Ettie streets. a six
room house. Call on or inquire of
Craigo & Leyson. 31tf
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Christian Church

Christian Church
On next Lords Day:
Sunday School at 10:00'A, M.
Morning Service at HOO a. m.
Christian Endeavor at 700 D. m.
Evening Sermon at 500 p. m.
Prayer meeting on Thursday even
ing.
You are cordially invited to attend
these services.
Ira G. Smith. Minister.
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CITY CHURCH
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Eyangelical Church

LVHHXeIICHI NHuICH
Services next Sunday as follows
Sunday school at 10
Preaching at Miller at IL A. M.
Preaching at Pearl at $3.50 p. NJ.
Children's Day program at 8 p. m.
Prayer meeting every Wen'sday
evening at S:0
Every one cordially invited.
J. ID. Musser. Pastor.
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Dwelling Rooms to Rent
Three good rooms in a dwelling
house to rent to small family, pos
session given at once.
j. w. Coquillette.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
ROAD BUILDING TO MUSIC
How Major KennOn Got Hustle Work
Out of FiIipinOs and Won
n Bet.

Major L. w. V. Keunon, now commanding
a battalion of the Tenth infantry at Fort
BENJAMIN Harrison, I'm building the famous
Benguet road through the mountains Of
northern Luzon, Philippine islands, accom-
plished a feat called humanely impossible.
1t took music, money and a mongrel army
of 1900 men to do it, but Benguet road
stands today one of the remarkable high
ways of the world.
Major Kennon's army Of 1000 road build
ers rested only on Sunday. For ten hours
OF each day they forged ahead. On sun
days they rested IN their quarters, houses
built Of poles ana grass. They amused
themselves with dances, cards and games
that appealed 20 she different nationalities
Major Kennon introduced music as one
Of the attractions along the lonely highway.
He is known for his resourcefulness and
he does not deny that he used music to
get better work out of the pleasure-loving
Filipinos and other orientals. They did
not like to work, and when they did it
was with slow sluggish movement.
One day Major Kennon decided TO try
music as an impetus to zeal. He assem-
bled his band, made up OF men OF all ma
tons, and ordered 1t TO move quietly and
secretely TO a place where several hundred
Filiplnos were engaged in drilling holes
in the canon walls. The band stole up
behind the slow-going drillers and suddenly
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

the revolutionary movement would probably
tempt the political police department to
pay him from the funds that Azoff looked
on as his own. He was marked down for
death. sentenced by Azoff, and strangled
by Comrade Ratenberg in a hired cottage
at Izorki. near 81. Petersburg, the day
after he reached the capital.
n revolutionary historians who draw
this picture Of the ex-priest explain that
the tragedy was the fruit OF the mans
character. He never was a revolutionary
by temperament. His procession to the
winter palace did not aim at a revolution
or a constitution. but purely and simply
at begging from the Gar protection for
the factory workers among whom he
preached against the oppression Of the gov
eminent officials.
A simple shepherd leading his flock. that
was how he began. When the crash came
and heIfound that If he was TO fight on
for his beloved factory workers he must
be a silent inconspicuous wheel in the
revolutionary machine his weak character
collapsed.
1t is noted of him that during his %sojourn
in the social revolutionary ranks in Geneva
he took not only shooting but also riding
lessons. The ex-factory preacher astride a
high horse leading his army! lake SO many
other Missionaries fallen on adversely he
could resist everything, except temptation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
AMERICAN TRAINS IN ASIA
Trial Test Of New Rolling stock
ON south Manch uria
Road.

Consul Roger S. Greene OF Dalny reports
that the South Manchuria Railway com.
pany on October q made a trial run of the
new American first-class cars which are
to be used for its express trains connect
Ing with the Chinese Eastern railway at
Changchun. The consul gives the follow
ing account Of this new train service:
The train, consisting Of a f,rst-class day
coach, two sleepers. one lining car and one
baggage car. took a party of invited guests,
leading Japanese officials, foreign consuls,
foreign and Japanese merchants and news
paper men, to the station of Chinchou. a
run Of about an hour and fifteen minutes
from Dalny. After an hours stay the re-
turn trip was made at the speed at which
the EXPRESS trains are to be run, an aver
age of about thirty miles an hour, reach
ing a maximum of about forty-flve miles
per hour, so this. the guests were able to
observe the behavior of the cars under
actual service conditions. During the ride
back luncheon was served to the party.
The company officials who were present,
among them the vice president and three
directors, were greatly pleased with the
cars in every respect. and the guests were
equally impressed with their finish, equip
ment and smooth running qualities. The
s~leepers, diners and first-class coaches are
all Pullman STANDARD cars equal to the
best on any railroad in the United States
and fitted with all the latest improve
ments. They are heated by steam and
lighted by electricity. The sleepers are
Of the usual American type with two
drawing rooms at one end, each having
three berths- and a private lavatory.
The express trains on which these cars
will be used are to be run twice a week,
leaving Dalny on Mondays and Fridays,
thus connecting with only two of the trans
Siberian express trains, the international
Sleeping Car c~ompany's train on the ST.
Petersburg express. The South Manchuria
Railway company's liner Kobe Maru will
continue to run weekly between Dalny and
Shanghai to connect with the international
express. 1t will leave Dalny Mondays at
2 y. nj. and arrive at Shanghai Wednes-
days, while on the return trip 1t Will leave
Shs nghai Friday morning and reach Dalny
Sunday morning.
The first express train Iert Dalny on
October 30 at 8 a. m. A condensed time
table Of the main line is forwarded giving
the hours of arrival and departure at the
principal stations. The journey from Dalny
to Changchun which has hitherto taken
twenty-five hours, will now be made In
twenty-one hours, thus bringing the pas
sengers to Changchun at 5 q. m, an ar
| rangement made unavoidable by the time
table Of the Russian trains with which
connections must be made. The south
bound train will leave Changchun at $40
p. m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays and Will
arrive at Dalny at 6:l5 the following even
ing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

Pelissler himself is the head and Shout
ders of the whole thing. A large, stout,
unwieldy man, he manages to dance and
fit about when he initiates certain char
acters in an amazing fashion. The instant
he comes on the stage with twinkling eyes
and IAN eight ours-of Inc registered
today sort of smile his audience laugh
with him. As for him, he chuckles at
everything. He makes fun Of his own fun,
ridicules his own performance.
AS for the book OF the play there really
is no book. The rehearsals are madden
end funnier than the performances. Every
one says and does what he pleases and
Mr.. Petssier watches 1t all, and when
somebody makes a particularly good iok
he says, We'll have that" and 1t goes
into the performance. So the burlesque
grows until it is ready for production.
Mr.. Pellssier will not even be seriously
interviewed. He takes all efforts at this
as a joke and talks to his would be inter
viewers In this fashion:
~ see, you want a picture of the house I
was not born in and photographs of my
aunts, and that sort of thing. I can read
you an appreciation OF myself by myself II
that will help you any At an astonishingly
early age l showed unmistakable signs of
humor and created shrieks of mirth among
my brothers and sisters by tripping up
blind old ladies in the street, kicking the
crutches from the grasp of a passing Grip
pie and a thousand other innocent drol-
leries.
AT the age OF 9 a family council was
held to see whether I should be educated
or sent to Elton. After a time / went
abroad, and on my return from the voyage
l was cheered by an enormous crowd. with
both of whom I gratefully shook hands,
And so on he continues till the bewildered
interviewer takes his leave, not knowing
one bit more about Mr.. Pelissier than
when he came. but having had a delightful
time all the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
FOR USE AGAINST ArRSHIPs
Novel Gun that Has Been Placed at
the Disposal Of the German
War once.

LONDON, March M.-Like every other
weapon of offence, the airship has soon
been followed with a weapon of defence
against its attacks. The German War Of
flee has had placed at its disposal a gun
manufactured and designed at the Krupp
works at Essen especially for use against
airships, and 1t is understood that the
British War office is also considering GER
tain inventions devised for a similar pur-
pose.
1t has been argued that naval gunners
could easily disable a Zeppelin airship.
The target presented broadside on is a
large one, but stem on the Zeppelin offers
only a forty foot circle,
II the height of the airship be 1000 feet
present naval guns could not be trained
upon it at less than a distance of about a
mile and a half, and at this distance a
forty foot mark 1t not a certain target,
even on the level, to a moving ship. At
the elevation required 1t would be not only
exceedingly difficult to estimate the range,
but even II the range we're known the al
lowance for curvature Of trajectory would
be so great as to render a hit the merest
fluke.
The new type of gun manufactured by
Messrs, Krupp, It is asserted, will destroy
a Siderable airship. The she'll which It
fires has a diameter of sixty-ftve milli-
metres. weight nine pounds and is dis
charged with an initial velocity OF 1.SE
feet.
The gun is raised to an angle OF sixty de-
grees and the projectile can reach a height
OF 1880 feet. The shells are filled with a
highly inflammable gas which will cause
the gas bag of an airship to explode when
Il comes into contact with II.