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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

The teachers of this district gath
cred at the court house Saturday
for their last meeting Of this year.
Before the program began, a picnic
dinner was served in the court room
under the supervision Of Supt. Mar
garet Duthie, to which the county
officials were all invited. Two spc-
cial features of the program were a
paper by Mrs w. H. Lane, and a
talk by DR.. K. l.. Smith.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Automobiles are getting very
numerous in this locality. They are
fine. nice riding, very fast, etc. etc.
etc. But the driver should never
become SO exhilerated and fascinat,
ed with his or her pleasure as to
forget the rights of other things on
earth. Great care should be eyer,
cised where a horse is frightened
Also a very moderate speed should
be the rule on city streets. for fear
Of running over a child.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

The Northwestern road has an
nounced that it will continue its
Pierre and Rapid City train on to
Hot Springs about June LIST, thus
giving much better Hills service.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Aberdeen's Home Coming enter
tainment on June l6, II, Is, for all
people who ever lived in either Da-
kota promises to be the biggest
thing of the year in this state. By
the way, that Aberdeen's got 'em
all lost in the woods, with the moss
CROWN on the wrong sides Of the
trees"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

O. H. Collins reports that he had
about sos stolen from his drug store
Friday night. The building was en-
tered through a basement window,
and the money taken from the safe,
which wasn't locked. No clue has
been found of the guilty parties.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Fred Evarts has opened an ice
cream parlor and confectionery
store in the building adjoining the
European restaurant. His adver-
tisement will be seen elsewhere in
this issue
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Mrs Mabel Cottrell and daughter,
Miss Gladas, returned to their home
in Miller on Wednesday last, after
spending several days at the home
of the formers sister, Mrs S. J.
Primer Yale, Echo.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

May "a and 25, Monday and Tues
day M. Bryed Wilson, "Optometrist"
of Huron, will be at the Wilson
Jewelry store in Miller prepared to
do satisfactory optical work. 23-t2
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

D. c. Peterson made a trip to
North Dakota last week. to look up
a recent purchase of land in the
western part of that state.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Boston has spoken for the year
1920, when she expects to celebrate
the three hundredth anniversary of
the landing Of the Pilgrims. The
event should be a success unless the
instigators are all out of the run
ming Ov that time.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

The city council in session Monday
night Appropriated $25 per month
for sprinkling the streets. A like
snm was subscribed by the business
men. The Gazette was selected as
the official paper for the ensuing
wear
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Among the other changes to be
noted with the passing days is the
fact that Tommy Grants and Ed
Dunn's mule teams are not the only
ones seen in the county any more,
The big Missouri mule is becoming
very numerous.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Clyde Duncan departed Monday
for Gooding, Idaho, where he ex-
poets to join the Miller colony and
locate.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

d. II. Smith and wife and Miss
Alice Carroll visited Huron friends
the latter part of last week.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Editor Guy Stout, of the High
more Bulletin, spent a couple of
days in Miller the latter part of the
week
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Misses Eta Greene and Bessie
Bard spent Sunday with Cashier H.
o. Bard at Harold.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Candies direct from Paris at
WeidenbOrner's. 2O-t4
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Charley Warner, of Elgin, Ill.,, is
visiting in the city and renewing
aCuuaintanceS.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

G. w. Robinson is erecting an
automobile garage on N. Broadway.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

The Masonic grand lodge meets
at WatertOwn and the Odd Fellows
at DeadWood.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

F. +. Crabtree went to Iowa Tues
day to spend a short time with his
mother.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Paris chocolates and Bon BonS at
Weidenborner's. 20-t4
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Banker Pierce, of Washington
was d city visitor Tuesday.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Charles Watson made a business
trip to Sioux City this week.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

John Slunecka and family, of
FairWew, were Miller visitors Mon
daY.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

George Fenton departed Saturday
to join his parents at their home in
Illinois.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

AL Steadman has built a new seven
room house on his farm in Midland
twp.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

Paris candies at Weidenborner's.4
Carl Douglass, of Cavour. was a
Miller visitor Saturday.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

very numerous
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
THE MILLER PRESS
THURSDAY, MAY Is, 1909.
PERSONALS AND
LOCI BRIEFS

y ILL.,
IS LOCAL BRIEFS}
Paris candies at Weidenborner's.4
Carl Douglass, of Cavour. was a
Miller visitor Saturday.
Banker Pierce, of Washington,
was d city visitor Tuesday.
Charles Watson made a business
trip to Sioux City this week.
G. w. Robinson is erecting an
automobile garage on N. Broadway.
Paris chocolates and Bon Bons at
Weidenborner'S. 2O-t4
John Slunecka and family, of
Fairvlew, were Miller visitors Mon
dav.
Al Steadman has built a new seven
room house on his farm in Midland
twp.
George FentOn departed Saturday
to join his parents at their home in
Illinois.
f. Z. Crabtree went to Iowa Tues
day to spend short time with his
ronthnr
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

seems to be convened in the spirit of
a free market. But it is, in fact a
huge and expensive joke upon the
American peaple.
The countervailing duty on petrole-
nm produces at the custom house no
revenue to speak of-perhaps two or
three thousand dollars a year. Its
practical effect is simply to shut out
from the United States Russian COM
petition in the oil business.
Russia is the greatest o~il-producing
country in the world. Its output in a
year exceeds that of the United
States by many millions of barrels.
Take the Standard Oil Company's
little joker out of our tariff and Rus
sian competition in American mar
ket would reduce the price to A-neri-
can two or three cents in
the gallon.
1t is because Russian competition
meets the Standard Oil Company in
the English market that the Ameri-
can trust has been selling oil in Lon
don for the last few years at prices
ranging from So cents to S.5 a gal
Ion, while the trust "a been getting
from 9 to II cents in New York.
The great oil monopoly has been
able to pile up a profit Of $500, BIS 900
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

combination that is hard to beat and
will bring as it is now bringing small
results, greater results.
The last few years have shown TO
a certain extent what is before Ros-
we'll, but what is past is merely an in
1icator of the great future. Roswells
glory lies not in the past but in the
future.
Nevertheless, Roswell has many
things now that are greatly to the
credit of her people. She has more
miles of cement sidewalks than any
other city, no matter what it's size,
between Wichita and Ell Paso, and it
is more than probable that Roswell
has even FL Paso beaten on this ilr.
portant point.
Her streets are carefully graded
and well kept and quite a few of them
are to be paved in h near future.
She has hundreds of artesian wells
and a magnificent water and sewer
system.
She has hundreds of fine residences
! with we'll kept lawns and bordered
| with magnificent trees.
She has the finest and best managed
stores in the Great Southwest.
She has a fine system of public
| schools which is constantly being i'm
| proved.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08
Robert &. An Appreciation.

Forty-four years ago today the
greatest English-speaking soldier sur
rendered his famiShed and exhausted
army at Appomattox.
Singular coincidence, that the two
great conflicts of all time the con-
ficts decisive of human history and
ultimate human destiny, should have
terminated in Virginia ONE at York
town, the other at A~ppomattox.
1t is not my purpose here to dis
cuss the military career of General
Lee, even if 1 were able technically TO
do so. Keen minds, guided by the
light of precise military science, have
long ago placed him amongst the fore
most warriors of all times and ages,
and the technical estimate of his gen.
ius has been approved by the multi
tude which judges only by results
but judges with unfaltering certainty
Even if he had done nothing else
Lees mastery strategy when Mc-Cle.
lens vast host invested Richmond
would have made any soldier immor
tai. His great counterstroke at tho
Second Manassas, where he routed
Pope and drove him within the forti
fications of Washington, was one o
the most brilliant feats of human gen
ius. His almost marvellous victory a
Fredericksburg won for him the I'M
stinted praise of foreign critics. Chan
celIorsville was his masterpiece, anG
will perhaps rank with the battles o.
the first class for the remainder o.
time. Whilst the brilliant and spec
tacular march of Stonewall jackson
around Hooker's flank has somewhat
overshadowed the whole history Of
that memorable conflict, General Lees
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

for merely nominal services, took up
his real life work as President of
Washington College at q salary Of
twelve hundred dollars a year. He
of apoplexy. October Il, 1870,
and was laid to res under the altar
of the chapel at Lexington. The illu-
strious young man who yielded up his
life at Charlottesville reposes upon
a nearby hill. Lee and Jackson: what
other region of earth ever produced
two such men?
Every school boy ought to e and
reflect upon the life of Robert E. Lee.
He had no small vices. He never
used tobacco. He never permitted a
profane expression to pass his lips.
Rarely upon invitation did he eve
touch a single glass of wine. And,
hen the final words shall have been
written concerning the courage of the
Aryan Race my belief is that the his
torian will recall those memorable
words, after the awful carnage at the
Antietam: NO, we shall not recross
the Potomac tonight; il Mcclellan
wants to fight tomorrow, 1 shall give
him battle"
1t was this man who, overlooking
the field of Fredericksburg, and OBJ
serving the frightful effect of his ar.
tillery fire upon Burnside's shattered
army, observed to one of his aides,
1T is we'll that his is so terrible,
Use we might grow too fond of it."
HOWARD CUTCHER.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08
Roswell HAS THE GOODS.

The growth OF Roswell is not of the
mushroom order, the "spring up in the
night kind of a town, u 1t is found
ed on a solid foundation. Roswell
has the goods"
The essentials to the building of a
good town are few, and Roswell has
them. The right kind of people, loca-
ton, soil, water and climate are the
main factors behind the growth OF
Roswell.
Tho people OF Roswell are of the
kind that have built great cities in
the past and will build great cities in
the future. We have a few knockers,
it is true, but luckily they are rev IN
number and unimportant. The mass
of our people are energetic, husthng,
uptodate people who believe in Ros-
well and will make Roswell become
fit to occu5y her rightful place in the
Great Southwest
Roswell isl located right. We are
hundreds of miles from any possible
rival, right in the Kart of a great
country with UNLIMITED possibilities.
tile, well watched valley Of the Pecos
destined to become the homes of hun-
dreds OF thousands Of people. There
is probably not another valley OF
equal size in the United States that
has the opportunities before it that
the Pecos Valley has 1t is destined
to become a solid mass Of small and
intensively productive farms. Alfalfa
fruits OF all kinds, grains, and vege-
tables viii be the staple products,
shipped out even now in old train
loads. As Western Texas develops
and becomes peopled and e Mexico
takes her rightful place in the Union,
a market will be made for all that
the Pecos Valley can produce.
The factors of soil, water and eli
mate are unsurpassed. The finest eli
mate In this great country, q rich and
fertile soil capable Of producing album
dant crops. and q water supply sufic-
lent 20 take + Of 1t all. This is
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08
Standard oips Little Joker.

The Payne tariff bill is about the
size of a plump move at a dollar and
a half. And there are a good MANY
sorners and crannies in it big enough
for little piercing parenthesis III
asides that may pass unnoticed be-
cause they seem lot to affect the
movement of the plot.
In such a corner-in paragraph 637
Of the Free List-a diligent search has
brought to light the Oil Trusts little
joker.
After enumerating the various
kinds of oil that shall come in free at
out ports-catieput, ichthyol, juglaudi-
I'M and so forth-the eye leaps hap
PLY to the last in the list, which is
petroleum, crude or refined"
So petroleum is free, you say. How
r~eassuring.
Congressman by the score nave
gone up and down the land proclaim
ing to their constituents that coal oil
and its products were on the free list
under the Wilson tarif-under the
Dingley tariff. And most people sup
posed, until the other day that petrol
, cum was free Under the proposed
Payne tariff.
But all this is a mistake, due to the
habit that people have Of reading ro-
mances with one eye.
The end of paragraph 637 contains
an elusive clause which has generally
escaped attention. The same clause
was in the Dingley tariff and in the
Wilson tariff. 1t las been working
night and day all the while. 1t has
been worth to the Standard Oil Com
pany. and has cost the house-keepe"s
of the country more-a great deal
more-than ten million dollars a year
for the last decade.
This modest clause is the Standard
Oils little Joker. 1t has e put into
and kept in the tariffs by Standard
Oil influence. .
Ostesibly the so-called "independ-
ent" producers of crude petroleum
have backed UP the little joker. But
in fact these have been only the spok-
esmen of the trust, acting nder du-
ress and the fear of losing their mar
ket. which the trust controls.
The little joker clause imposes a
''countervailing' or contingent duty
on petroleum, to be applied only in
case oil shall be imported into h
United States from countries that i'm
pose a duty upon American oils. In
such a case the duty here is to be
equal to the duty exacted abroad.
This looks fair and harmless n
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

She has the best school in the Ter
ritory, the New Mexico Military In
stitute.
Her banking facilities are capable
of handling the business of a city ma
ny times the size Of Roswell.
Roswell is the headquarters of The
Fifth Judicial District, has an Unitad
States Land office and is an important
point in a governmental sense.
Roswell has all the conveniencSs
of modern life, gas, ice, electricity
and her citizens read The Daily Rec
ord every evening.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08
DALHART SPECIAL DID
MOT CnME 90

The special from DaIhart, Texas,
which came in last night turned out
to be one Pullman car, vita about %
people on board. Considering the fact
that announcement had been made
that Dalhart was coming with 300 peo-
pie, the special proved a disappoint-
ment. However the band was at the
station and the visitors were given a
warm welcome. Last nights train
south n this mornings train north
were crowded with people who had
had enough fun for one convention
and were ready to go home.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

The Record expresses the hope and
believes that the COW men had a good
time in Roswell and regard the con-
vention as being a success not only
from the business standpoint but also
on the social and entertainment
side. Roswell would be glad to have
the convention again.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

in eight years-5O or so per cent a
year on the supposed capitalization.
With the little joker laughed out of
the tariff bill the Standard Oil Com
pany Will still be able to get or COM
fortably with q profit of 80 or 40 per
cent.
can.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

Roswell will make her visitors feel
at home at all costs, and even brings
in a specimen of Panhandle weather
for their enjoyment.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

There was foul inches of snow yes
terday at Amarillo. Roswell did her
best to equal it, but the utmost we
could do was to produce a little
hrpaza
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

While tornadoes and cyclones hit
towns and cities all over the country,
doing great damage to property n
resulting In loss of life in many in
stances, Roswell is entirely free from
these Affections. Occasionally we get
a lust storm such as the one of yes
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

Automobile Sale Postponed.
The announcement of the automo-
bile sale is called off until further no.
tice. tI*.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

Crazy Snake is still at large-also
others.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

What is known as the ROSWELL
plan" of city government was author
lied by the last legislature. This plan
was drawn in Roswell by Judge G. A.
Richardson, mayor of Roswell, and
approved by the city council. 1t is
quite probable that the counc will
shortly do something towards plac-
ing it in effect. San Diego on Tues
day voted to adopt the commission
form of government and as the plan
gradually spreads it meets with sue
cess in almost every case. Roswell
could moi do better than to adopt 1t.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

terday but on the whole our climate
is one of the best.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

The Dalhart people came, saw and
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-08

Tuesdays elections showed decided
gains for the prohibition people all
Owe the country. That the liquor in
terests have cen seriously Affected
by the "dry" wave of the last few
years cannot be doubted. The strenu-
ous efforts being made to counteract
and TO check it is further evidence
ID this, but still it continues to spread
and the "dry" area becomes larger
and larger every day. The ultimate
result must be to make the country
largely and perhaps entirely "dry."
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-08-19
FIGHT TO BE KEPT Up.
BaIlinger and Psnchot to Meet Again
in Denver


in Denver.
Denver, Aug. 17.--Every subject
that In any way can be connected with
the commercial, Industrial and agricul-
tural growth of the West, from the
Panama canal to scientific dry farm
ing, will be discussed in Denver this
week at sessions of the 18th annual
convention of the Trans Mississippi
Commercial congress.
Between 5000 and 1000 delegates
are expected. The congress began its
sessions yesterday, although the real
work will not be taken up until today.
One of the features of the congress
probably will be the renewal Of the
struggle between Secretary of the In
terror Ballinger and Chief Forester
Pinchot, begun publicly at Spokane
last week. These two men and 800
delegates from the National Irrigation
congress at Spokane are expected to-
day.
Among the multitude of subjects to
be discussed are railroads and trans
portstion; commercial problems, closer
relations with southern republics, with
special reference to the Panama canal
national defense. with special refer
ence to the Pacific coast and Hawaii,
which will send delegates; conserva-
ton of national resources, irrigation
and reclamation; good roads: beet and
cane sugar industry; reform of the
consular service; drainage of sub
merged lands, and separate statehood
far A wiwopa mud haxz Maxfoo
Among the accredited delegates will
be five women. two from Denver, two
from Arizona and one from Texas.
The government will take advantage
of the congress to give illustrated lee
lures every night explaining what Fed
erai authorities are doing in the way
of public works. including the Panama
canal.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-08-19
HOLD UP BANK.
Oregon Boys Secure $1,000 But Are
Soon Captured.
measure,

S0' 0oHtdfcQ
San Francisco, Aug. 1.-two Ore.
gon youths, neither one much over is
years of age, walked into the VALLEY
bank of Santa Clara shortly after lC
O'Clock yesterday morning, and lining
up the three clerks at the muzzles Of
revolvers, pushed one of the men for.
ward and told him to place 81, 900 in 8
bag and give it to Them"
And be quick about it. too" said
one of the hold-ups, "and if it is shy
I'll blow the top of your head off,"
While the clerk was obeying the
youths, the others had good chance
to study their faces, as neither of the
amateurish desperadoes was masked
Cashier Birge placed the required sum
In a sack and gave it to the two invad.
ers, who at once left the bank, went q
half block, and jumped into a wait.
ing automobile. There one of the men
placed a revolver at the chaffeur's
head and commanded him to ''let her
out for all she's worth" The chafferr
complied and the heavy car Disappeared
in cloud of dust.
Some miles out of town, however. the
machine broke down or the driver dis
abled it and the robbers took IN tbo
fields. Their direction was ascertainad
and shortly afterwards they were over
taken by Sheriff Langford and Deputy
Sheriff F. Lowell on the banks Of
Moody creek. -
n
Sheriff Langford made every effort
TO discover the identity of the prison.
ers, but beyond saying they were from
oregon they would tell nothing of their
history. '-e''