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The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1909-09-09
It Might Be Worse

Misfortunes are thick in this
vale of tears, the moans of the
sorrowful come to our ears; the
law of hard luck seems the govern
ing law, and a package of grief is
the prize that we draw. But if
we could cut out the weeping and
sighs and quit pumping brine
from our water-logged eyes, we'd
soon find our troubles and sorrows
disperse, for there's nothing so
bad that it couldn't be worse.
It's we'll to reflect when you're
burdened with care, and trouble
comes down with his feet in the
air, that others have suffered as
deeply as you, and raised just as
much of a hullabaloo, and others
have found that a bundle of woe
is easy to lose if you only think
so. From the day you are born
till you ride in the hearse, there is
nothing 80 bad that it couldn't be
worse.
One day was ranting around
pretty glum; for felon was hold
ing the fort on my thumb; the
surgeon came in with his saw and
avowed that I was a baby for yell
ing so loud; II sawed off the leg
of your brother" he said, land
never a whimper came out of his
head" Oh, it's true as you live,
that excepting this verse; there is
nothing so bad that it couldn't be
worse. Walt Mason.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1909-09-09

Tor hle their declaretOry state
ments in cases where they are en-
titled to file declaratory state
ments) at the land Office for any
land district in which their num-
bers entitle them to make entry,
in order in which their applica-
tions for registration were selec-
ted and numbered, but no person
can present more than one applica-
tion to enter or file more than one
declaratory statement.
8. Ii any person fails to apply
to enter Tor to file declaratory
statement if he is entitled to do so)
on the day assigned him for that
purpose, or if he presents more
than one application for registra-
tion for lands within the same
reservation, or presents an appli-
cation in any other than his true
name, he will forfeit his right to
make entry or filing under this
proclamation.
8. None of the lands opened to
entry under this proclamation
shall become subject to settlement
or entry prior to the first day of
September, 1910, except in the
manner prescribed herein; and all
persons are admonished not to
make any settlement prior to that
date on lands not covered by en-
tries or filings made by them
under this proclamation. On
September l, 1910, all Of said
lands which have not been entered
under this proclamation will be-
come subject to settlement and en-
try under the general provisions
of the homestead laws and the said
acts of congress.
10. The secretary of the interi-
or shall make and prescribe such
rules and regulations as may be
necessary and proper to carry this
proclamation and the said acts of
congress into full force and effect.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1909-09-09

ing later.
August 28th this year we ha,
traces of frost in some parts o
the state. The writer has twic
within ten years seen the corn 4
Yankton killed by frost befor'
Sept. 10th.
i We should always plant seet
corn that will an ordinary seasor
produce corn that will he out o
the way of frost by that time.
The only seed that will do thi,
is the ears that are ripe by tha,
time or before. a season such a.
We have just had.
| Let us gather all the corn We
can Friday Sept. 10th and Satur.
day the nth this year.
Select the ears that have pro.
duced the most corn that is ripe.
The type varies with different
varieties. hut generally speaking.
these will be found to he ears
varying in length from not to ex.
ceed I inches in the north, and in
the higher attitudes, to 8 inches in
the South, and carrying their size
we'll to the tip of the ear. As a
rule the pointed ear has very
shallow kernels near the tip. Get
ears with the tips and butts as
we'll covered as you can.
Select ears from good strong
stalks, and that grew about the
height from the ground that you
prefer. The ears that drop over
are to be preferred to those that
stick up straight.
Don't pick more than you can
hang up. Care it must have.
The best way we have seen to care
for it is to stretch some wires in
the top of the crib, or a machine
shed, any place where there is
|plenty Of dry air, and \ good roof.
These must be stretched tight.
Then take a piece of strong twine
(binder twine is 9ood) about l2
feet long and tie the ends to-
gether. Slip the hands through
and straighten out like you used
to hold yarn to be wound.
Holding the twine bring the
hands near together and let the
boy lay an ear of corn in tho two
pieces of string. Catch this be-
tween your feet, slip one hand
through the string held in the
other hand, crossing the twine,
lay in another ear cross again till
string is full. Then pull tho
string in one hand through that in
the other, and hang on tho tight
wire by use of a wire hook which
you can bend.
Before hard freezing weather.,
put this corn in the attic, on some
place where it won't freeze. II
you haven't a place that won't
freeze, have a dry place, where
the temperature will he steady,
Don't hang over grain in a bin,
nor over stock, nor where there is
much moisture. One good ear
will plant a row 35 rods long.
Save the seed corn.
Farmers Institute.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1909-09-09
The Great Empire Of Stanley

The Great Empire Of Stanley
The yields of small grain as re
ported by j. A. Hughes who i!
threshing north of town are good
The spring wheat is yielding from
IA to % bushels per acre while
oats are running from 25 to IS
bushels. The grain he reports is
all of splendid quality. Mr..
Hughes has improved his machine
by the addition of a self feeder
which he put on yesterday. From
threshing reports the yield OF
small grain in this locality is equal
to yields anywhere and far better
than is reported from many the
localities east of the Missouri
river. kadoka Press.
The people of Riffel township
are not letting the grass grow
under their feet in the artesian
we'll matter. A petition to the
board Of supervisors of that town.
ship is being circulated, asking
that q special election be called to
vote on the proposition to bond
the township for the purpose of
buying an artesian we'll outfit to
sink wells for the township, or for
the land owners in the township at
actual expenses of operation.
Here is a scheme that is sound.
and we predict that it will not be
long until other townships in the
county will do likewise. The
plan is to hire an expert to oper-
ate the machinery in putting down
the first wells and have some one
in the community work with him
until familiarity with the machine
is acquired, after which the town
ship will he independent on the
water question. Ottumwa is NOV.
ing in the same direction. If that
plan is generally followed it will
not be long until Stanley county
viii of verify blossom like the
rose. Midland Mail.
Hon. J. G. Bartine. of Oacoma,
j. r. McLain, j. T. Zavitz and A.
j. johnson, of Murdo, have for
the past week been investigating
the merits of the Cheyenne reser-
vation in order to be prepared for
the land opening in October.
They are on their way home. =
Midland Mail.
The contract has been awarded
to Winston Bros. by the North
western railroad for building
twenty-nine miles east from Belle
Fourche on their new extension,
and work will begin at once.
This extension will be completed
yet this fall, and the prospects are
that early next spring a line will
be constructed from Wendte, on
Bad river twenty miles west of
Fort Pierre, running up Lance
creek to the divide west of Sansarc
! and from there to Leslie, at which
point it will connect with the ex-
tension from Belle Fouche. A
branch line from Philip north to
the Hardingrove country is also
contemplated, so we are Informed
by an official who is in position to
know. Stock Growers News.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1909-09-09
No Proof to Wives

) secure title to land is shown by :
decision recently received at the
United States land office. Back
OF it all the reason is apparent.
for the government is trying tc
conserve the land for bona tide
settlers who will live upon it and
cultivate it.
! 1t has been noted in the land
office that many filings have been
made by residents of all of the
larger towns and cities in eastern
South Dakota, Iowa and Nebras-
ka, including many from Rapid
City. In many instances these
filings are made by merchants.
trade people, and in some cases
by professional men.
The decision Just rendered by
acting Commissioner s. Y. Proud
tit. of the general land office, is
wide in scope and comes at an op.
perfume time as a warning to peo-
pie who attempt to get title to the
government land for speculative
purposes. In the case in oues-
tion a photographer filed on a
claim and after the stated time
submitted his evidence and at
tempted to prove up on his claim.
Commissioner Proudht finds the
facts in the case to be as follows:
I'm his proofs he alleges tina.
he established a. residence August
6, 1907, by moving his family on
his claim; that he personally came
February 20, 1908; that his wife
has made it q continuous residence
since August &, 1907; that he has
been absent two or three months
Ut time. one time six months at
work in Sioux City, Ia, that he
has photographers Instruments at
Sioux City; that his wife was alb
sent At Sioux City three weeks in
the winter of 1905 and again three
weeks in the summer of 1908; that
he has two acres broke; that he
has raised no crops; that his claim
is in the middle of a large pasture
and he is unable to fence it,
MUST ACTUALLY RESIDE.
OF several cases cited in his
findings Of the law points Com
missioner Proud6t says: ''Resi-
dence under the homestead laws
must be established by the person
al act of entryman. Residence on a
homestead must be in person and
cannot be by proxy even by a
member of the entryman's family.
Residence under the homestead
law cannot be established by the
acts of another. Constructive
residence cannot be allowed where
the entryman moved his family on
tho land within six months from
date of entry and settled there in
house previously constructed, not
personally coming to the land for
some two months later.
"A mere pretense of cultivation
does not satisfy the requirements
of the homestead law, and proof
with facts to show a bona tide
compliance with the law in the
matter of cultivation must be re-
quested.
In the case under considera-
ton, residence was not established
by claimant by moving his family
onto the land August 6, 1907, and
not prior to February 90, 1908,
when he came personally to the
land, and his residence is therefore
insufficient to permit communication
of proof.
1T also appears that there has
been no cultivation, or preparation
for cultivation beyond breaking
two acres within a pasture, with
out any apparent intention to cul-
tivate any portion of the same. -
The proof is founc.to be insult
ieient and the land restored to the
government.
/ pAnH EDtntA r~>>~A>~>
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1909-09-09

A"u"uaN II loy IOl
Thomas j Jack
Albert H Houck
Eliza NJ Savage
Benjamin + Stiles
Margaret Molloy
Annie Hanson
Petra La Croix Nygard
George Strohbeen
Richard II Wickham
John Feick
Marshall ID Latta
Fred II Schemmer
Mamod Beraney
Mohmid Chamie
Andrew J Anderson
Emma Rogers
Horace H Tyson
William K Edwards
Ralph Culver
John Schultz and VT to A j
Iron, W d, sw Is 3n "a. 81.
Vance Van Loan to G A Ander-
son, W d, W hf sw 5, ne So, se ne 6
In %. $1,000.
} NJ Smith and WI to S f .Jor-
dan, W d, sc sw IL, " hf ne, no
NV 90 3n q, $25OO.
John G Buehler to Brit Boyd,
W d, Its 3. & Sc NV, sw ne Sin
"a. 81.
Fred K Jarman & VT and Jerry
Jarman 4 VT to G. H Msrden, W
d, Its l3 blk / Nowlin. 81.
Peter jacobson and VT to same,
" d, 1t IL blk Nowlin. $50.
Walter Fazendin to Nora o.
Donnell, W d, Sc Is An 2l. 4leOo.
Nicholas Conner and vt 10
James Dillon, " d, Its 4, $, 6. Z,
sec 27; It L., 2, 3, sec %, It l, 2, :,
sec 33 1t / sec 81 twp IS 22. $500.
Fannie F Gates to G M Sagaeen,
W d, 1t Is, IA blk 4 Russell add
Philip. 1850.
Carrie NJ Knapp and hb to
George H Decker, ID, Sc 10 in
IS. $4,000.
John j Jones and VT to George
d Decker, W d, 1t 4 se sw 10 6n ~
$500.
Milwaukee Land Go to E Z.
Sem, " d, 1t 10 blk 2 Belvidere
1916.
CIV West to Leonard Holel, W
d, sw % 5n ~. $3.50
Same to Clara M Holel, " d,
NV 81 5n u. $3.50.
Lloyd f Maxey to l. d Rood,
W d, Sc II Is 81. 81.
Cornelius j Courtney to W +
Hudson, W d, sw 2 2n %. $1,000.
Thomas q Opheim to Alonzo l.
Krause, W d, NV IS 3n 30. ~.
Charles Hill and VT to same, "
d, sw %, NV rs 3n 20. $4l0O.
Hussen Sheronicke and VT to
Admad Sheronick, W d, sw % 5n
"a. $l40O.
Leonard Hohl and VT toe w
West, " d, sw % 5n q. 81.
Clara NJ Hohl to same, " d, NV
33 5n 27. 81.
Alice NJ Eukel 4 hb to Jesse
Bassett & Heo w Corneveaux, "
d, 1t I, 9, 3, 4, sec 10 In "a. $1,000
Jennie Inman and hb to + L
Edwards, W d, 1t 6 blk ! Kadoka.
$275.
Peter A GRADER and VT to John
S Schroeder & VT, W d, NV l31n
25. $1400.
Western Town Lot Co to Ida NJ
Peckham, W d, 1t 6, 7, blk 4
Philip. 1925.
P VIM Hollmer to Margaret
Hollmer, W d, NV sw I3, g hf ne,
ne Sc IA IS %. 81.
Elmer Worden and VT to Emma
j Castle, W d, Sc 26 Is 25. 81.
Amanda Stoughton to Chas
Walker, " d, sw l aln 81. 1880.
Teophil Nassif Eskaf and VT to
Chamie Bros. " d, n hf of It 4 blk
Z Kadoka. s..
Eugene Aldrich and VT to Fred
Arnold, W d, It's 2 blk 3 0eGn add
Philip. $500.
j Willehed Lundell "a Charles
r jacobson, " d, sw 20 6n Is.
E115O.
Geo + Moles to A A Heiae-
mann, v d, It's l, 2, 3. 4, 5, Ak s.
lie 13, IA, Is, l6, ~; 10, Blk 8
Highland add Philip. o13Qo,
Sarah Fueabe q Josiah r ., !,
= q, y hf -. 2 II ~ e. - -
e1on.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1909-09-09
Reservation Opening

The general land Office has pre-
pared the following rules and
regulation regarding the registra-
tion and drawing:
/. All persons qualified to
make Homestead entry may, on
and after the fourth day of Octo-
ber, and prior to and including the
twenty-third day of October, 1909,
but not therefore or thereafter,
present to James W. Witten,
superintendent of the opening, at
the city of Aberdeen, in the state
of South Dakota, by ordinary
mail, but not in person or by
registered mail or otherwise,
sealed envelopes containing their
applications for registration for
lands in any or all of said reserva-
tions, but no envelope should con-
tain more than one application and
no person should present more
than one application for lands in
the reservations.
2. All applications for regis
tration must be on forms furnished
by the general land Office, and
they must show the name, post
Office address, age, height and
weight of the applicant and be
sworn to by him on or after
October and prior to and includ-
ing October %, 1909, before some
notary public designated by said
superintendent.
3. Applications for registration
must he sworn to at the following
places and not elsewhere. Appli-
cations for land must be sworn to
at either Aberdeen, Lennon, L.
Beau, Mobridge and Pierre in
South Dakota and at Bismarck in
North Dakota.
4. Persons who were honorably
discharged after ninety days SER
vice in the army or navy of the
United States, during the war of
the Rebellion, the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, or the Philippine insur-
roction, or their widows or minor
orphan children, may present their
applications for registration, either
in person or thru their duly ap-
pointed agents, but no person can
act Is agent for more than one
such applicant, and oil applica-
tions presented by agents must be
signed, sworn to, and presented
by them at the same places and in
the same manner in which other
applicants are required to present
their applications.
5. Beginning at 10 o'clock =.
m., on October 4, 1909, at the CITY
of Aberdeen, in the state of South
Dakota, and continuing thereafter
from day to day, Sundays except
ed, as long Is may be necessary,
there shall be impartially taken
and selected induscriminately from
the whole number of envelopes so
presented such number thereof as
may be necessary to carry into ef-
feet the provisions of this procla-
nation, and the applications for
registration contained in the en-
velopes so selected shall, when
correct in form and execution, be
numbered serially in the order in
which they are selected, beginning
With number one for the lands
within each of said reservations,
and the numbers thus assigned
shall fix and control the order in
which the persons named therein
may make entry after the lands
shall become subject to entry.
6. A list Of the successful ap-
plieants, showing the number q.
signed to each Of them, will Be
conspicuously poa1ed and furnished
10 the press for publication Is 4
matter Of news, aad : propel
notice will b promptly mailed t.
eech person to whom : number il
leeieped.
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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-09
TWO-CENT RATE LAW
IS DECLARED
ILLEGAL
MISSOURFS LAWS FIXING PAS
SENGER AND FREIGHT
RATES NULLiFlED.

Kansas City, Mo-, March S.-Mis-
souri's 2-cent passenger and maxi
mum freight laws were nullified by a
decision handed down here today in
the United States district court by
Judge Smith Emerson Mcpherson. AS
result, it is believed, there will be
a quick return in Missouri to Scent
fares. Frank Hagerman, counsel for
the IS companies involved, declares
the courts ruling sounds the death
knell of the 2-cent rate in every state
in the Union.
Judge Mcpherson held that both the
commodity and passenger laws We're
confiso atory and unconstitutional.
The state, on the other hand, de-
clared emphatically that 'Missouri's S
fight for lower rates would continue.
Attorney General Major said an ap-
peal would be taken and that the
present legislature would be asked to
pass a new rate law that would stand
the test of the court. Governor Had
ley made similar statement at JEFF
ferson City.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-09
PASSENGER SERVICE
JULY |
PUGET SOUND ROAD PLANS TO
BEGIN RUNNING TRAIN IN
EARLY SUMMER.

Butte, March S.-According to word
received here, on May l the Chicago,
Milwaukee & Puget Sound railway
will inaugurate its freight service
through to the coast and on July
the passenger service will be put in
operation. The afternoon of April 2
at Gold Creek the golden spike will be
driven in the presence of the Milwau-
kee general officials, William D..
Rockefeller and other eastern mag
mates. This event will recall to mind
another event of a similar character
which has marked the beginning Of a
new annal in the west, the completion
of the Northern Pacific. In Septem-
Der, 1888, at Gold Creek, in the pres
ence of President Grant, Territorial
Governor John Schuyler Crosby.
Henry Willard, members Of Grants
cabinet and other prominent, men, the
spike was driven at spot near where
the Milwaukee road is to be linked
together.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-09
TAFT AND PROMINENT OFF,
GALS CONFER REGARDING
PROBLEM OF FUNDS.
BIC DEFICIT TO Be NET
President, Speaker Cannon, Senator
AldriAh and Secretary Of the Treas
ury Macveaeh Hold Important Con-
ference Regarding Plans to Supply
Funds for Nations Maintenance.

Washington, March S.-The problem
of providing funds with which to
carry on the projects under way to
maintain the plans of the Taft ad-
ministration and to make the demands
square with a new tariff schedule is
the work with which President Taft,
Senator Aldrich, Speaker Cannon and
Secretary of the Treasury Macveagh
were engaged at two hours con-
ference at the White House today
The necessity for the enactment of a
tariff bill at the earliest possible mo-
ment was discussed, but whether a
definite policy was outlined could not
be stated. That the manufacturers
and other large interests are demand
ing early tariff legislation and that
business will be unsettled until the
tariff schedules are finally fixed were
he principal reasons for the desire
to permit nothing to interfere with
prompt action at the special session
of congress.
The possible delay which the house
insurgents" may cause by fighting
the rules and the further difficulties
that may be put in the way of getting
the tariff bill through without delay
was thoroughly gone into. The con-
ferees agreed that every republican
in the house and senate is pledged by
the party platform to let nothing in
terfere with an immediate revision.
Mr.. Taft has made consistent fight
for a genuine revision OF the tariff
and has let 1t be known that he would
be satisfied with nothing hess. In
his inaugural address he frankly
called attention to the 100000, 900
deficit confronting his administration
and he suggested the possibility or
the necessity of an inheritance tax.
Secretary Macveagh has allowed
himself to be quoted as to the prob
able necessity Of stamp tax.
1t is certain that since today's con-
ference there is a more definite un-
derstanding as to what may be de-
sired of the proposed new tariff as a
revenue producer. If 1t has been con-
cluded that tariff revision must be
radical, provision in the bill may be
looked for which will have for its
purpose the raising of revenue by
other means than tax on imports.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-09
REVIVE OLD CHARGE
TO ExTRAD|TE CLARKE

Bellingham, WASH, March SOW
ing to there being no provision in the
extradition treaty between Canada
and the United States for the return
of prisoners charged with jailbreak-
ing, the athorities will resurrect an
old charge OF forgery against Convict
Clarke, now in Jail at Mount Vernon,
Wash, in order to procure his return
to the British Columbia penitentiary.
Clarke made his escape from the Ca
madam prison in company with Bill
Miner, the notorious train robber
serving a life sentence, and for whose
release railway detectives are charged
with having been rewarded by the re-
turn of stolen bonds.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-09
PUzzL|NC TRAGEDY
DISCOVERED
BODIES OF AGED MAN AND HIS
YOUNG FRIEND FOUND DEAD
ON HUNTING PRESERVE.

Portland, Ore, March S.--A mys-
terious tragedy was revealed today
when Mrs. Oscar T. Hiett, during a
search for her young husband, who
had been absent from his home all
night, visited a shooting preserve on
Columbia strait and there found the
bodies of her husband and an old man
named John Dale. A bullet from a
rifle had shatted the side of Hiett's
head and a deep wound on the head
from an axe disclosed the cause of
Dale's death. Both men were lying
on the ground near an old cabin, and
between them lay the axe and rifle,
the weapons used in slaughter.
Whether the old man shot the
younger and was then beaten with
the axe by Hiett until the latter
dropped dead from loss of blood, or a
third man was the murderer, may
never be known The former theory
is held by the police.
The old man and Hiett, hardly en-
tered upon his twenties, had been
companions for long time, until the
younger man took to himself a wife.
After that the old man apparently
became jealous of the boys wife and
they quarreled frequently. 1t is al
legged that Dale offered Hiett many
inducements to leave the young
woman, and told him that If anything
happened to him certain money that
he had buried on the shooting pre-
serve would go to Hiett when he died
Recently he is alleged to have said
to Mrs. Hiett that he would so some
thing that she would be sorry for.