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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-31

3. Y. p. U. Program.-The Young
Peoples union of the First Baptist
church will give an April fool sociable
tomorrow evening at 8 O'Clock in the
church parlors. business meeting
will be held previous to the entertain
ment. The program is as follows:
ta) Blessed Feet of Jesus
(b) God is Love.
Ladies' Octette Swedish Lutheran
Church. Moline
Reading, "Poe's Raven in an Eleva-
tor" Charles b. LOOMS
Mrs. Frank Corcoran.
Piano Solo. "A March by Mendelssohn
Bertram Kemper
Bridal chorus .Octette
Reading, THE Tramp Musician.
William J. Brooks
Mrs Frank Corcoran.
Violin Solo. ................ Selected
Ruth Johnston; accompanist Almyrd
Edwards
| Ebb and Flow .Octette
Silver Cross Circle Meets.-The Sill
yer Cross circle of the First Methodist
Church met last evening at the home
of Miss Garnet r. Warren, 1925
| Fourteenth-and-a-ha street. After the
regular business meeting the following
program was given:
Piano Solo-Miss Grace Holcomb.
| Reading-Miss Coda Erford
| Piano Duet-Miss Garnet Warren
and Miss Nell Aldrich
Vocal Solo-Miss Alice Quinlan.
| Refreshments were served by the
hostess
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-31

are simply rotting TO the core for want
of more patriotism among the voters
and less peanut, partisan politics.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-31

A professional
hero is as tire
some as a profess
sional beauty
s o m e m e q
work harder TO
avoid work than
they would need
to to earn a liv-
ing.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-30
that Ledbeter had disappeared and
ask them to holm search for him IF

that Ledbeter had disappeared and
ask them to help search for him. If
anyone came to me and asked how
it was or when he left was to say
that he was with me in the barn and
MIXED three cows and that after he
got through he went upstairs to get
some chicken feed, and to say that l
went to breakfast and did not see
Ledbeter again. | did all this. l
was to call that breakfast was ready
before going myself.
Mrs. Ledbeter was to come to the
barn and say that breakfast was
ready and not find Ledbeter, and
she was then to alarm the neighbors.
All this was done as planned. When
/ got back from the timber, Matt
Borgmeier appeared in response to
a telephone message from Mrs. Led
better, and | told him what she had
told me to say, and he wished to
search the barn, and | went with
him through the barn and woods.
He came about $50 a. m. Mrs. Led
better had had trouble with the tel
ephone to Mr.. Schafer's and had
started to walk there on foot to not
ify him. She asked him to search
in the woods, and wept with him,
and they met Mr.. Borgmeier and
in the woods. | then went back
with them to the buildings and
showed Schafer and Borgmeier
through them. Mrs. Letbeter tele-
phoned to August Schroeder. the
real estate man in Mankato, and he
came. and we searched the woods
until nearly noon. In the afternoon
Borgmeier, M. Sanfer, Tom Nc
Tighe and | went to Kasota and re-
turned before dark. The children
also helped search.
MRS. LEDBETER ACTING soRRoWFUL.
Two days later a big searching
party went out. Mrs. Ledbeter in
the meantime was acting sorrowful
and as though she was in distress.
A week after the murder. her sister,
Mrs. Goldie Schwandt arrived from
Sanborn and has been with her ever
since. A week later the sisters
husband, VIM. Schwandt, arrived
and remained over night.
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-30

off and dug hole in the ground, but
the place was cramped and the
ground got hard, and when l got
down two or three feet l said that l
could not 60 any lower as there was
no room to work, and Mrs. Ledbeter
said: "Put him in there anyway
and we will plant him after while.
We put him in the hole then and she
took the bed sheet off and / showed
the dirt back and she tramped the
dirt down over the body, and when
it was all on she took the fork and
piled the chaff and hay back on the
dirt, so it could not be seen. The
hole was so small that we had to
double the legs over the body. and
one hand stuck up through the dirt.
Everything looked like it did before.
We then returned to the house,
and Mrs. Ledbeter took the bed
sheet, the pillow case and one blan-
ket and put them into the heating
stove. and then she went and got
some kerosene and threw it into the
stove and then lighted match and
set fire to the contents of the stove
and burned it up. There was some
blood on the carpet in Ledbeter's
bedroom, and his wife got rag and
some water and washed it off.
After that we sat and talked until
nearly daylight. The children, two
girls and two boys, the oldest four
teen years old, were asleep all night
and knew nothing of the murder.
Mrs. Ledbeter asked what | thought
| replied, "You done wrong, and it
will come out sometime. You got
me into it. She replied: If you do
what tell you. it will never come
out" asked: What do you want
me to do?" and she replied: "As
soon as it is daylight go to the barn
and do the chores, and / will milk
the three cows. and you can do the
other chores, as usual" We did
this as soon as it was light enough
to see, between four and FIVE o'clock
| harnessed four horses, and she
started breakfast a little after five
o'clock. She then told me to go up
to the timber as though was look
ing for Ledbeter, and she would
telephone to the neighbors and say
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-30

Falls when this section was in the
Sioux Indian reservation in the sos
and is hale and lively citizen Of
Delhi,
While the south side of the Min
nnesota river was occupied by the
Indians, oyer in Renville county
there was settlement of white fam
lilies. Among those who escaped
with their lives and still survive are
Henry Ahrens, c. T. Wichman, w.
| Wichman and Mrs. Julius Scheffler,
living at or near the old pioneer
towns of Beaver Falls, and who are
expected Friday.
JOS. Smith, editor of the Morton
Enterprise, whose father was killed
in the massacre. was away from
home with the army in the south at
that time.
In and about Fairfax are several
members of the Rieke family and
others who assisted in this defence
of Fort Ridgley after escaping from
their homes in the valley.
Mrs. Jacob Schmahl. now with
her daughter. Lottie Palmer at Du-
luth. one Of the plucky assistants in
the defence of Fort Ridgley, near
which her family was living when
Aleck. Herman and Julius were
youngsters.
John Hinderman Of Fairfax and
Capt. Chas. Demons of Mankato are
among the river boatman who as
sisted in the Minnesota steamboat
/ traffic before and after the massa-
ere.
Mrs. John Lauterbach Of this city
was the first white child born in
Brown county.
Albert Behnke of New Ulm was
one of the owners of the first stores
started in the stockade at Redwood
Falls.
Redwood Falls was founded in
1864 by Col. Samuel McPhail and
his daughter, Eta Anderson of Min
neapolis, is e..only Minnesota resi-
dent who is survivor Of the first
year at the stockade. The first
home in Redwood county outside of
town was built near the mouth of
Crow Creek in the fall of 1864, by
Marion Johnson and his father,
which makes Mr.. johnson the oldest
settler in the county.
John Thomas was the first arrival
in the spring of '65 and was closely
followed by DR.. D. L. Hitchcock,
and family, the first physician Of
the upper valley. Mrs. P. D. Hitch
cock is the only resident Survivor Of
the adult pioneers who had home
in the old stockade.
The first school teacher in the
first log school house was Martha
Watson, daughter Of David Watson,
the pioneer surveyor, now at the
Minnehaha Soldiers Home, as is al-
so Norman Webster: her husband,
who was the first sheriff Of Redwood
county.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-30

Things appear to be coming our
way this week for the Pioneer Day
celebration. 1t looks as though old
Jupiter Pluvius had emptied all of
his water tanks by this time and
that with the coming of Boss Hicks
of the weather foundry the faucet
will be turned off. But regardless
of possible rains on Friday, the pro-
gram will be taken up and finished
Saturday or even continued over I'M
til Monday if the pioneers so elect.
The picnic features will be assist
ed in every way possible by the To-
cal committee, so far as making
arrangements for obtaining water.
forage for teams. plenty of WELL
drained and shaded grounds and re-
freshment supplies wherever there
is demand for them. Grandview
Heights has some ideal points in it's
favor, not only in it's nearness to the
city but in the fact that its topo-
graphy insures perfect drainage as
we'll as abundance Of shade and bea-
tiful scenery. The eastern end of
the promontory, beyond the drive
proper and adjoining the same, has
space enough to comfortably accom-
modate nearly thousand people, if
as many as that require tenting ac-
commodations.
Secretary Warren Upham wants
to make his connection with the
meeting count as much as possible
in the collection Of light on the his
torical incidents Of pioneer days, and
old settlers who has knowledge of
historical inaccuracies in accounts
published hitherto or of new light
in that connection will confer fav-
or by interviewing Mr.. Upham
about it.
1t is expected that Chas. Hopkins
and Senator Reike of Fairfax will
bring quite a number of the valley
pioneers from that vicinity and that
Beaver Falls pioneer association will
be well represented, as we'll as the
old settlers connected with the Sun
down and Willow Lake association.
A special feature not hitherto
advertised is a representative at
tendance Of the original settlers of
the valley-a good sized delegation
of the Indians who were permitted
to return to the original scene of
the uprising Of '62 on account Of
their loyalty to the whites and good
behavior at that trying time having
promised to come. Among these
are the widows of two of Gen. Sib-
ley's scouts and several Of the de-
scendants of the Good Indians"
whose names are enrolled on the
Birch Cooley battle ground monu-
ments.
Chairman Hitchcock has handed
to us few notes in this connection
which we print as suggestive of the
scope of the celebration:
E. G. Pomeroy assisted in the
building of Fort Ridgley and the
government saw mill at Redwood
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-30

Last Sunday and Mondays de-
velopments in solving the Ledbeter
murder mystery has profoundly
stirred the people not only of Blue
Earth county but of the entire state
as crime more depraved and. das-
tardly than the mind of most peo-
pie could conceive. The Gazette
has for this reason refused to enter
tain the theory that Ledbeter was
murdered by members of his own
family until tangible proof could be
offered. Such proof came at last
through the unremitting efforts of
Ledbeter's brother to clear up the
mystery that surrounded the disap-
pearance of the man now known to
be foully murdered. The details re-
mind the reader in some degree of
the famous Tanke case from Nicol-
let county, but seem even more cold
blooded and unprovoked.
Ledbeter's career in Redwood
county extended over several years
He first worked what was known as
the Pike farm, now owned by Mr..
Collins, for eight or ten years, and
becoming dissatisfied, removed to
northern Wisconsin, where he only
stayed year or so, returning here
and purchasing the place now oc-
cupied by A, C. Schmahl. Here Mr..
Ledbeter erected comfortable
house and good barn, investing a
good deal of money in improving
the place. He had the reputation
of being a good citizen, though
somewhat gloomy in manner, which
some of his friends ascribed to do
nestle troubles, Mrs. Ledbeter not
escaping the tongue Of scandal on
one or two occasions. At the time
of the Sunday meetings, Mrs. Led
better was one of the converts and at
a subsequent revival season was one
of the pianists of the revival chorus.
Her professions, however, did not
save her from severe criticism for
peculiar conduct and she left Red
wood Falls for Mankato over year
ago somewhat under a cloud. This
was shown by the attitude of her
former acquaintance in regard to
the Ledbeter disappearance, num-
Der of our citizens being sceptical
about her version Of the story.
We are indebted to the Mankatc
Free Press for the facts in our re.
port.
The circumstances leading to the
discovery of the body was the forma.
ton of a searching party of about
fifty volunteers by P. j. Ledbeter
two deputy sheriffs being of the
party. The search Saturday was
apparently a thorough one, taking
in the barn, the streams and water
holes and the surrounding country
as we'll as the farm, without result
Sunday afternoon the search was
resumed, reports the Free Press
he neighbors and many farmer:
rom a distance joining in to the
number of $50. The searchers di
,ided into groups, one group going
long the creek banks. searching thu
tream with poles, others walking
he fields. One of the searchers, a
ne mouth of culvert near the Led
etcr barn, found the remains of ;
40, afterwards identified as Led
eter's, worn on the morning of hi
appearance.
Finally neighbor, Henry Guise
vanced the opinion that the bod.
ould be found in plowed field
d number of men began "sound
:" the earth with rat spears to thu
pth of four or five feet. Aftel
,rking some time without results
" rested in the shade and again
;umed the search. Finally ont
tt Sanger struck what he thought
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-30

Official Program of Redwood
Falls Chautauqua
FRIDAY, July I'd
REV. GEO. L. BARKER, Platform Supt.
Minnesota Valley Pioneers Day : Program continued
following day.


Minnesota Valley Pioneers Day Program continued
following day.
Saturday, July Sd
2:3O D. M Prelude Eureka Glee Club
800 Z" Lecture DR.. Irl R. Hick
7:3o Prelude Eureka Glee Club
800 Entertainment Tom Corwine
Sunday. July
600 Sermon lecture EGov Henry Buehe
700 Vesper Service
7:3O Grand Sacred Concert Eureka Glee Club
500 Lecture H. w. Sears
Monday, July
2:3O o. M Prelude Norton's Band and Orchestra
800 Lecture Senator Bob Taylor
Tuesday. July
2:3O D. M Prelude Norton's Band and Orchestra
300 Lecture . Mrs. Carrie A. Nation
7:3O Prelude Nortons Band and Orchestra
500 Lecture 1t Gov. Luther Manship
Wednesday, July
2:3O o. M Prelude Carriers Jubilee Singers
300 Lecture Denton c. Crowl
7:3O Prelude Carriers Jubilee Singers
800 Entertainment Mcguire (Magician)
Thursday, July s
2:3O D. m Prelude Carriers Jubilee Singers
800 Lecture DR.. Robert S. Macarthur
7:3O Grand Concert, Carter's Jubilee Singers
Friday, July 9
23o D. M Prel Fleschmans Royal Hungarian Orchestra
800 Lecture, DR.. Thomas McClary
7:so Grand Concert, Fleschman's Royal Hungarian
Orchestra
Saturday, July 10
23o p. m. Prelude Fleischmans Royal Hung Orchestra
800 !" Entertainment Mascot Educated Horse
7:so Prelude Feischnnan's Royal q; Hung Orchestra
! Sunday, July IL
2:3O D. M Sacred Music, Feischms R. Hung. Orchestra
300 :" Lecture Col. G. A. Gearhart
700 :. yesper Service
/ 7:30 " Grand Sacred Concert Fleischman's Royal
Hungarian Orchestra
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-30
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WILL
BE GREAT DAYS FOR PIONEERS
And the Eight Days Following Will be Filled With Mnsic
EJoquence and Good Cheer Come and Join
in the Pioneer and Chautauqua Joys.

Indians Expected Along With Later Pioneers Music
Each Session, State Orators Friday, Hicks, Gov.
Buchtel, Sen. Taylor and Carrie N.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-06-09
WORKON TROLLEY
WILL COMMENCE
WITHIN TEN DAYS
FIRST CAR suPPLIEs-seIKEs
REACHED THE CITY YES
TERoAY MORNING.
Other Shipments Are in Transit and
It ia Stated That the Actual Con-
struetiOn Work Will BE lnsusurssed
Within Two Weeks.

The first carload Of actual construc-
ton supplies for the City and Subur-
ban Railway company arrived yester-
day from Atlanta and was a solid car
of spikes, purchased from the Atlanta
Steel company As was announced ia
The News yesterday morning the rain
for the tracks is enroute from Spar
rows Point Md, in the schooner Fred
erick w. Day and is due to arrive In
the course OF few days. Other sup
plies Of a small nature have all been
ordered from different sections OF the
country and Is in transit.
One Of the moving spirits in the en-
terprise informed The News yester-
day that the actual work OF laying
tracks, erecting poles, stretching troll
leys. etc.. will probably be under way
in the course of the next ten days.
The Chatham Construction company,
formed of both Brunswick and Savan-
nah capitalists. win build the line and
as far as 1t is possible all Of the labor
will be OF local nature.
The work viii be pushed along as
rapidly as is consistent with good
workmanship and there is no ques-
ton but that the line will be complet-
ed and in operation before the date
named in the franchise. which is Sep
tember 30. The route has not been
fully determined as vet and as soon
as some portions of 1t are finally fixed
1t will be given to the public
President Strachan, who has been
III In New York for some time. is ex-
pects TO arrive In the city on Satnr-
day and Immediately following. his
coming the work will be placed under
way.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-06-09
AN ACCIDENT
DURING SHOOT
col. J. E. ou sIeNoN PAINFULLY
lNJURTo BY EXPLOSION OF
HIS GUN.

Col. j. II. du Bignon was painfully
injured during the tournament OF the
gun club yesterday afternoon, and, as
result this well-known Brunswick
ian may lose the use OF his left hand,
though physicians last night stated
the accident may not prove as serious
as was at first thought.
/ The accident was one of the most
peculiar of the kind known to trap
shooters. and out of the large numl es
Of shooters present yesterday, many
OF them having shot over the traps
for years, not one could recall a sin,i-
lar accident,
Colonel du Bignon, with squad If
four others. was beginning the sey
enth event of the program. It ap-
pears that he PLACED shell IN his
gun and called pull" The gun did
not fire and he thought he had failed
to load the gun, but had left the sbell
in the barrel which he had previously
shot. He then placed another shell
in the gun and when he fred tho
gun. about three inches from the front
of the barrel bursted. His left hand
was terribly lacerated, the arteries
being severed.
The forearm of the gun was broken
into several pieces as was the barrel.
II is the opinion of the shooters. as
well as Mr. du BigEon. that the first
shell placed in the gun was a dofec-
tive one, and when he snapped The
loaded one, without any noise OF the
discharged, lodged in his gun. and hat
urally when the gun was fired with
the barrel blocked the explosion be-
ing so quick 1t caused the gun
to burst.
Dr. Blanton was on the grounds ana
he, with the shooters, did everything
possible for the injured shooter lie
was quickly brought to the city and
was carried to Dr. Fox's oiEca and
later to the city hospital, whert. the
physicians held q consultation The
exact extent of the injury was not
known last night, but the pllys;cl ms
stated that the hand would more than
likely be saved.
The sad accident caused genuine
sorrow among the many shooters
present. all of whom regret it vlry
deeply.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-06-09
Upton to Try
Again for Cup

New York, June S.-John w. De
Kay. who has a packing plant in
Mexico. and who is friends of Sir
Thomas Upton. has just arrived in
this city Mr. De Kay spent some
time with Sir Thomas while in Eng
land and said that Sir Thomas was
anxious to try again to win the Amer
team cup.
Sir Thomas believes in the luck of
the four-leaf Shamrock and wants to
come over here with Shamrock w.
said Mr. De Kay today. 81 was with
him the day he won his first race this
season and he authorized me to make
this statement on my arrival here"
Sir Thomas is ready and anxious
to challenge again and said he could
not understand a rule being made
here to which every club in America
adheres. and that yachtsmen should
not be willing to accept challenge
under that rule
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-06-09
w. 0. w. Report
Wonderful Growth

Detroit, Mich, June >.--Renorts
read by Sovereign Clerk John Ya.as
at the opening of the bienldai CONVEX.
tion of the Sovereign Camp Of ,ha
Woodmen of the World today. reveal
ed remarkable growth of tha erjec
during the year 1908.
The net increase in membership
during that year was 50.lis. re.pr..-
senting an increase. of $G3,152 900 in
insurance certificates.
The total assets of the order were
given as $s,S26.23s. of which 1926 s43
comprises an emergency euntls The
liabilities are given as $6yi.2lf Tho
Sovereign Camp is the lawmaking
body of the order, and will be in ses-
sion here ten days. The prisclpal bus-
mess is a revision Of the constitution
and bylaws and the consideration of
the erection Of a building at Omaha.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-06-09
TAFT TO ACT
AS ARBITRATOR
WASHINGTON BELIEVES PREsl.
DENT WILL BRING HOUSE
AND SENATE TOGETHER.

Washington, June S.-Thar Presi-
dent Taft viii be the arbitrator be-
tween the senate and the house on
the tariff proposition when the bin
goes to conference, and that be will
get from conferees the kind OF a
measure he believes win meet the
platform pledges of the republican
party, is the report here. which great
ly simplifies the situation.
President Ts5ft and Senator Aldrich
were in conference for an hour and a
half this afternoon. Neither would
make statement at IT'S conclusion.
Senator Dolliver is presenting in
a number of senate amendments in a
good d-natured spirit, saying the repub
lican party should justify itself as
TO the protective tariff party.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-06-09
Big Trap Shoot at
Warm Springs, Ga.

The southern interstate trap shoot
ing tournament will be held at Warm
Springs, Ca, June Is. 16 and H.
Shooting will begin at a. m. each
day The events of the first and sec
ond days will be sixteen yards rise.
The shooting on the third day will be
handicap distances The purses in the
events of the first and second days
will be divided Rose system, four
moneys, on ratio of 6-4S-2.
The added money and prizes will
amount to over 5000.
The shooting grounds win be open
for practice Monday afternoon, June
Ia. The Interstate Association revised
trap shooting rules will govern all
events not otherwise specially provid-
ed for
Quite a number of the members OF
the local gun club. who are having a
tournament this week. will take in the
shoot