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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
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Interesting Variation From the Usuai
Run Of Failures LlabiiitIes Esti.
mated q Million Dollars and A.
sets At Half Of THAT Amount Firm
HAD Rrapeh ofsiess ii Chicago, Nil
waukee. Louisville ana Other Cities.
@ New York, May Is in the appoint.
ment OF 1 receiver for Tracy q Co.,
members Of the New York Stock Ex.
change and the Chicago Board 81
Trade, Wall street had q million dol.
lar failure with an interesting varia-
ton from the usual. Taxlcabs. not
stock manipulation or market condi-
lions, are said to be Indirectly respon-
sible for the firms troubles. While
NO announcement as to the exact
cause of the failure has been made, IL
A. Benedict, receiver, said that he UNI
derstood that money lost in backing a
local taxicab concern figured In the
outside ventures. The firm has no
stock exchange obligations The to-
tai liabilities are estimated at 81, 000,-9
600, the assets at half that amount
Both these sums are approximate.
News OF the firms failure came out
with the filing of an involuntary petit
ton in bankruptcy in the United
States district court, but as 1t was
rather late In the day no official mo-
tice was received at the stock ex.g
change. Mr.. Benedict was quickly.
named rs receiver and gave bond for
5000. ss5 ia 555a
There were only three petitioning
creditors. They arc Henry F. Wood.
ward, $500; William G. Austin, $780,,
an6 William A. Scott, 1907.
The firm OF Tracy & CO. was orga-
nized in 1905. It consists of William
w. Tracy. R. D. Covington and Frede-5
rich w Parker. Mr.. Parker was the
board member Tracy and Coyington
We're in conference with the receiver,
but they declined to make any stEte
ment. Mr.. Parker has been abroad
for several months.
Amcng STOCK exchange houses with
Chicago connections, the embarrass-
ment OF the firm caused little surprise.
The situation Is regarded by friends
of Mr.. Tracy as result, at least in
part OF proposed taxicab legislation
pending before the local board OF al.
dermen. When 9 hearing was held
with regard to proposed legislation
some weeks ago, an attorney for taxi
cab interests announced to the com.
mitteemcn Of the board that any res
duction in the rate OF fare night mean
bankruptcy for some persons interest.
ed. Rutthe proposed bill was report
ed, though further consideration was
postponed.
Besides the main New York Office
in Wall street, tho firm maintained 10.
cal branches in West Thirty-third
street and at the Hotel Gotham. IT
had other Offices in Chicago, st. Louis,
Louisville, Milwaukee and New Haven
Conn. s5jss y
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
gets THREATENING LETTER
Judge Told to Try to GET New Triais
for the BoyIes. &:

a M l4
+ Cleveland. o. May The CleYe-5
land police have learned that a threat
has been made to dynamite the home
of Judge A. w. Williams In Mercer
Pa. unless he lends his efforts to-
ward obtaining a new trial for. James
BOYLE and wife. recently convicted
before him on the charge Of kidnap-
ping Willie Whitla. n i35 VI
The threats We're sent in an anony-is
nous letter, postmarked Cleveland
and signed "A Friend Of the Poyies..
II warned Judge Williams that unless
he did as the writer ordered, his home
would be blown up and himself and
family killed. "A
& Judge Williams says he is not
alarmed by the letter, which has been
turned over to the postal authorities,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21

HAMS V|| | |. |! GO
70 SING SING
Sentenced to From Eight to
Sixteen Years.
MAY At ONCE BEGIN HIS TERN

Counsel for Convicted Army Officer
Practically Agree to Their Client.
Immediate Transfer TO the STATE
Prison-An Appeal Based on tn.
General Court Record in the Case
Viii BE Taken Ii Regular Course,
Flushing, N. Y. May 1s.--Unless
some unlocked for legal obstacle is
interposed, Captain Peter G. Hains5
Jr., .. s. a., ssho was convicted OF
manslaughter in the first degree fol
killing William e. Annis at the Bay.
side Yacht club last August win be
taken to Sing Sing today and at once
will begin serving the sentence i'm
posed by Justice Garretson in the SUI;
preme court. The sentence is indeter
inmate, under which the minimum pc.
riod Of Imprisonment will be eight
years and the maximum sixteen years
His time in prison must be spent al
hard labor. + *, (
Counsel for Hams practically agreed
to their clients immediate transfer to
Sing Sing, when they announced after
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
.REOP MING OF OLD
WOUNDS PRE- ENTED
Speaker Cann0n's Ruling Cuts
OF Discussion.

Washington, May IA ruling BY
Speaker Cannon prevented, perhaps,
the reopening In the house of old
wounds Of the Civil war. Mr.. Hols
sltngsworth of Ohio sought to Justify
as matter Of privilege his recent
resolution objecting to the placing Of;
the portrait OF Jefferson Davis on the
silver service to be presented to the
lbattleship Mississippi because of edi.
torials In certain Southern newspaf
pers hurting all sorts OF epithets atS
him The editorials were read
The speaker declared that. as the
editorials did not attack MIR. Holdings
worth In his representative capacity
he could not continue. The result or
Mr. Hollingsworth's attempt was to-
get into the congressional record a.
number of uncomp limentary remarks
about himself and with nothing to OFF
set them AS the editorials were read
In turn the. house was conYulsed with,
laughter.
Although its consideration was com.
pleted. the Philippine tariff bill was
not finally acted upon for want Of d,
quorum
Should g esolntion by Mr.. Burle.3
son (TeH.) which was adopted, be,
complied with, the attorney general
must furnish to the house information
regarding steps taken BY him to annul
the contract whereby the United
States Steel corporation absorbed tha.
Tennessee Coal and Iron company, unsss
less in SO doing public interests would
be affected. IS
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21

consultation with General Hams.
his father and Major John r, Hains,
brother, that no application would
pc '5 made for a certificate of reasonable
doubt to act asa stay of execution.
An appeal, based on the general court
record In the case, Will BE- taken IN
regular course. however, M: II
Upon learning the decision Of coun-
sci, the sheriff Of Queens county said
that. acting upon the suggestion Of the
court. he would take his prisoner to
Sing Sing within twenty four hours.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
sP '' /, ] ON THE STAND
Banker Testifies Ii, Trial Of Patrick
Calhoun at San Francisco.

Z Calhoun at San + francisco. ss
San Francisco, May 1s.Rudolph
Spreckels, the San Francisco banker
who contributed 100000 to prosecute
an inquiry into municipal conditions
in 1906, was called to the witness
stand in the bribery trial Of Patrick
Calhoun. He gave a detailed ac.
count of his reasons for opposing Mr..
Calhoun's plans for railway develop.
ment and OF the manner in which he
became q supporter of the prosecution.
Assistant District Attorney Heney,;
replying to a statement by one of the
attorneys for the defense, declared
that he had thrown down the bars.
had summoned Mr.. Spreckels as a
witness for the first time In any of.
the bribery trials, and that he stood
ready to meet any line of inquiry the
defense might choose.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
@ BE Agent.
Railroad Time Tables
.Ask for sIs,srlptiys folder.
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y Twin Cities, Glltago& ~ daily ii :30pm
IS way freight conae, de- s & sun, ar. s:SSp p
M. q ST. WEST
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daily except Sunday.
9. q N. w. EAST
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,5o2 Chi. 4 east, via CANDY and Tracy,
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SOUTH DAKOTA CENTRAL
2 Sioux Falls pass ssex Sun, ". s. e:95am
Arrive at Sioux Falls 1920 e
~ Sioux Falls pass. Sun. only, ". :OOam
iyes Sioux Falls 300 p m. VI
is4 Way frt.. ex Sun. S. 3. ~ 81. s:O0am
4 Watertpwn pass, ex Sum-, arr. S:OOpm
Leave Sioux Falls 8:4E.
IS Watertown pass, Sun only 80. D:00pm
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IL NJ. W. West
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Gettysburg u, !. ~ !. !. 7:4epm
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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
SHOT DOWN BY HOLD-UP MAN
Minneapolis Fireman Killed in Trying
to Intercept Fugitive.

Minneapolis, May While trying
to intercept holdup man who was
making q desperate effort to escape
from pursuing detectives. John Nc,
sNamara. lieutenant Of truck No. 2,
Engine Company No. !. was shot and
fatally injured. He died an hour later
at the city hospital
95 The man who did the shooting was.
captured after chase which led
through streets and alleys; and he is
now locked up at central police sta.
lion.
He gave the name Of Frank Erfck-
son and said that he is a Russian
Pole Sss js. IA
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
q Celebration 4 FARGO.

= Fargo n p, May 1S,--The pre-
sanitation Of the bust of Henrik Ibsen
ENorway's famous poet. musician and
author. to the North Dakota agrieuls
tural college was q feature Of the
celebration Of Norwegian indepen.
dence day in this city.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
BABY s.ransIed ia. Death.

Duluth, May is The fve-months,-
old son Of Mr. and Mrs. John zubtz.
of Eyeleth accfde ntally killed itself in
its baby carriage The child was left
alone in the carriage Cor a short time.
and when the mother returned she
found that the baby had gotten its
head between some Of the frames that
held the Tor and was dead from
strangulation.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
I Mules Burned q Death.

Kansas City, Mo, May is. One
hundred and seventy mules were
burned to death II, d fire at the kan
sas City stock yards. Some stables
were destroyed, the total loss ap-
preaching $4,000.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
DISCUSSES THE INCOME TAX.
Senator Sutherland OF Utah Makes an
Extended Speech.

S0Hatof &SulncTtanos OF Utah Makes an
Extended Speech III
Washington, May IS.--A eompre-
hensiye discussion of the income tax
by Senator Sutherland of Utah and.
an extended speech by Senator Depew.
In support Of the pending tariff bill
consumed most of the session OF the.
senate Mr.. Sutherland argued against
the constitutionality Of federal In
come tar law and declared that such;
4 tax should be left as a means OF
revenue for the states.
n Before adjournment couple Of
hours We're devoted to a discussion
Of the cutlery schedule OF the tariff
Bill.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-21
CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS
One Woman Drowned in Flood in Ne
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q braSka. tsS
Lincoln. Neb., May IA downpour
Of rain sent Salt and antelope creeks
out of their banks and residents liv-
Ing in low land sections along the two
streams were forced to call for as
sistance to take their belongings to
places of safety. Mrs Stella Cole
drowned while trying to escape with
Her baby. who vas rescued Minor
damage was done in the business dis
trict. "a bad flood is reported at
Rokeby. a few miles from Lincoln.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-14
THERE IS NJ REST F0R TH[ DE5ERTER hreWd Is The Man Who Car
 Escape TOLLS OF THE ARMY Government Officers Never Cease In Their TireIess Search for Men Who Desert the Army-He Is
 Marked Mar
TOLLS OF THE ARMY
Prom the Kansas City Journal.

From the Kansas City Journal
 The most consistently traled law breaker in the United States today is the deserter from the army. From the time he is found missing at the post whe.e he Is stationed until the inevitable hour when an officer of any one of dozen different federal and civil denominations lands him in custody, he i< criminal marked for punishment. and he is shrewd indeed if he escapes, said J. E. Morrison, il deputy in the United States marshal's of.ice in the federal building yesterday.
 The business of MT. Morrison is some times to sort over hundreds of sheets of glossed paper bearing the picture and description of absconders from forts throughout the country it's possessions and Cuba. He has learned, he says, that four-ffths of these are foreign born and professional army deserters with bad rec ords left behind them in Europe. Out of bunch of posters he was mailing out yesterday, 45 out of 62 of the deserters were credited in the description as having been born in continental Europe, usually Hungary, Russia and Germany.
 Besides the chances of an escaping soldier to get away from his punishment, that of an ordinary jail breaker, bounded by civil officers, is a bagatelle. In the first place. soldier. in or out of uniform, is a soldier in habits and mannerisms of the service. The lock step of the state prison will wear away because it is only an incidental of the prison life and the convict doing time can do 1t mars ar lass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-14
ther that quite conveys the same mean

other that quite conveys the same mean ing.
 Jolly is another bit of coloquialsm that is useful in it's way. But there is a wide difference between jolly and a boost.
 To jolly is to fatter.
 To boost is to put forth sincere effort
 The jolly is from the lips only.
 The boost comes from the heart.
 The booster has a genuine attachment to his cause, whatever that may be. He has faith in that which he boosts. He believes; therefore he boosts.
 The booster always is an optimist. A pessimist cannot boost. He doesn't know how. pessimst Is natsr7lly a "knocker." The word "lnocler," by the way, is another Useful coin lge in our American speech.
 Instance; the man who boosts his town To him his town is the center of tho uni verse. His property is there-hs home. his family, his future. even his gray e, probably therefore, he believes his town is worth boosting. An admirable good fellow is the booster of his town.
 And so of the man who boosts his . church. He believes the doctrine of his church is rs>t He believes the preach CT is the best. He urges you to come next Sunday and occupy his pew. The pastors best beloved is the church booster
 And so for the man who boosts his home. His home is the coziest, his wife the sweetest and best and his children the smartest of all. Mind you. he doesn't i go about telling these things. But he boosts his home just the sane as every body knows, and especially his family. It is not so of the joller. who keeps his promise to the ear but breaks it to the hope.
 It is not so of the knoclker, who is q nuisance to lis town, his church, his home-and to himself
 The booster is wise in his day and generation. because when he boosts he boosts himself When the knocker knocks the knock comes back upon the knocker By the same law of reaction when the booster boosts the boost comes back upon the booster.
 Boosting is the soul of all work
 Work without soul is drudgerv Effort of whatsoever sort without enthusir sn Is but dreary and commonplace. But the booster puts soul into his wor.: and therefore his work is constant; series of happy accomplishments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-14
A pecadent Mother.

As result of the shameless wranging father, Count Boni de Castellane. and the notorious step-father, Prince Helie de Sagan, the custody of Anna Gould s children has been given to the mother.
 Poor boys!
 Ostensibly the legal fight was over the young children-Boni, George, Jay. In reality it was a struggle to get hold of the money in the hands of the guard ian.
 The profiigate, gold greedy father want ed the handling of the $6O,000 year., and the greedy, notorious step-father also wanted it.
 Nobody cared for the children.
 That is saying much.
 But the only one who could care-the boys mother-is a silly, frivolous creat- ure who turned them over to nurse as soon as they were born and afterward to a good priest
 Poor boys
 They are frail things with tired, sad features, already old in appearance, Tn world knowledge
 What could you expect?
 The laws of heredity cannot be evaded. The sins of the parents are visited upon the children. Their father Is a notor- ious debauche, and their mother Is a weak, thoughtless thing at her best
 Neither can the laws of environment be evaded These children have been rear ed in the miasmatic atmosphere of dissi- patton and jealousy and slander The father has slandered the mother. and the mother has told the truth about the father And both father and step-father have told the truth about each other
 What a mire of domestic feet in which the little feet must wade
 And who is chiefly to blame?
 It seems a hard thing to say but Anna Gould must herself bear the chief bur den.
 As a silly girl her head was turned by the prospect of a coronet. Relatives warned her concerning the character of Castellane. Nevertheless, she chose this roue to be the father of her children.
 That was mistake No. l.
 With most women the lesson would have been sufficient But with knowl- edge Anna Gould did not learn wisdom. With open eyes, and against repeated warnings, she chose de Sagan,-~who if anything, is trife worse than Castel- lane
 The woman is simply decadent, like the rest or the decadents with whom she associates. Weak to begin with. she mas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-14
HEART TO HEART TALKS
By EDWIN. NYE Copyright, " ican Press Association

ruins, the awful day of doom that came
 to Sicily and southern Italy, are not with
 out their uses. The law of compensate
 holds, even here.
 The sad affliction has served to open
 the hearts of men and women to give of
 their substance.
 The gift of Congress was large. Private
 philanthropy has done much. But those
 who have given out of their poverty
 have given most. One of the most remarkable of all the donations of the poor occurred the other
 day in New York city when a procession
 of wagons, headed by band, went through the Italian quarter of the east side
 Ten express wagons started on the
 route at 9 o'clock, and an hour later It was necessary to send the wagons back for unloading. With the first strains of the band play
 ing the Italian national airs tenement windows bristled with people. A few mo- ments later down from the windows fiut-
 tered shawls, skirts, trousers vests,
 coats, underwear and handkerchefs. Some of the clothing was new, some
 was old but every piece stood for a sac rifice.
 In the shower also came money-a sur .prising lot of money considering how little
 the givers had. Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters half dollars hurriedly wrapped in paper, struck fhe pavement, with now and then a bill When the tour was completed the money alone totaled nearly $3,O00. The pile of coins was more than two feet high. nearly a bushel of it, pennies
 predominating. ne ciothng filled the express wagons
 many times over. A trembling old man
 brought a pair of trousers, thrice patch ed Men and women wept as they gave. literally tearing clothes from their bodies. Nor was the giving confined to the Ital- ians.
 A Chinaman came out of his laundry ] with a half dollar and said, Me help too."
 An aged Jewess. took shawl from her shoulders-probably her dearest posses ; sion-and gave it, with tears in her eyes. | As the newspaper reporters watched the spectacle and witnessed the eager desire and abandon of these poor people to help the suffering they realized that touch of nature that makes the whole world kin.
 Remeber the story of the widows 5 mite?'
 Two thousand years ago when the Mas ter stood over against the treasury and saw the poor widow give her little coin he pronounced upon her the euiogy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-14
THE HOVEI 5 OF
 SKUNK HOLLOW

The tenements of Pittsburg vivid1y described in the February Charities and The Commons, by Florence L. Lattimore. The rears of these houses present another solid line of rocking. broken-down toilets with box vaults, unfinished, on platforms built level with the rear floors of the houses. Tucked in between disreputable families of the lowest type are, here and there bright faced, thrifty Italians. Two families have been brought to Skunk Hol- low from respectable neighborhoods be- cause of the hard times. In one of their houses renting for s9 a month. the rear room is ten by six, cubicle with a two by two window in it directly opposite and two feet away from the doorway of the toilet The air? Well, the window has a solid shutter and when that is closed the air isn't so bad and keeps out disease. As the mother talks, two little chained dogs bark at the babies loaded on
 her arms, and on the edge of the railing which prevents the nwary from stepping off the platform into a landslide of rubbish
 the platform into a landslide of rubbish below, fruit and clothes are drying, maca- roni is soaking, and busybody flies are hurrying from one thing to another. Any typhoid? Oh. yes, the grandmother died with it, and one of the children had it. but was taken to hospital and got well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-14

perfectly, according to his inclination or the watchfulness of the guard, but the whole life of the soldier is soldering, and he can never get away from 1t.
 Now, turn a man so marked out in the world. with sI50 reward on his head, and send to every village postoffice, po lice station. constable, sheriff and United States marshal in the whole country his accurate description and picture of him in two glittering attitudes, and you have placed him in the predicament of the de- serting soldier, and narrowed his chances to an innnitesimal bit of progressing % miles from the starting point without ar rest"
 MT Morrison said that more money Is probably spent by the government adver- Using a deserter than the reward of $50 offered for his capture.