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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-06
WRIGATS ARE SUCCESSFUL.
Pres sident Was Spectator and Con-
graduates Brothers.

Washington, d. C.-Orville Wright
has attained the zenith of hard.
earned success. In the 1O-mile
cross-country flight in the famous
aeroplane built by himself and his
elder brother, Wilbur, and accompa.
MED by Lieutenant Benjamin d. Foul
ois, an intrepid officer of the army
signal corps, he not only surpassed
the speed requirements of his con-
ment, but accomplished the most diff
ficult and daring flight ever planned
for a heavierthan-air flying machine.
Incidentally, he brok- all records
for speed over a measured course and
established beyond dispute the prac-
ticability of the aeroplane in time OF
peace and in time of war.
Wrights speed was more than AZ
miles an hour. Orville made the 10.
mile fight in IA minutes and AZ sec
OndS, including the more than 20 sec
onds required for the turn beyond the
line at Shutter hill, the southern end of
the course. He attained height in
crossing the valley Of Four Mile Run
of nearly 500 feet, and the average al
titude of his practically level course
was about 200 feet.
President a Spectator.
President Taft, who has become an
enthusiastic spectator of the aeroplane
trials, arrived upon the parade ground
at Fort Myer just in time to see the
aeroplane land and in time to partici-
pate in the wild demonstration which
welcomed the triumphant aviators. He
sent Colonel Treat, commanding offic-
er Of the artillery at Fort Myer, to
bear his congratulations to the vic.
tors.
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president TO VISIT ST. LOUIS
WILL TAKE TRIP DOWN MISSIS.
sIPPI IN OCTOBER.
And Attend the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Wa
terways Convention in the
Crescent City.

ngton.-President VIM. II.
Taft has accepted the invitation to
visit St. Louis and 60 from there
down the Mississippi river to New
Orleans, where he will attend the
lakes to-the-gulf waterways conven-
ton. The date of his arrival in St.
Louis will be Oct 26. He will stay
over night there and leave for the
south on board OF one Of the palatial
steamers the following day.
The presidents steamboat will lead
a flotilla of at least thirty vessels, and
in the procession it is expected there
will be thirty governors Of states, the
vice president. the speaker Of the
house of representatives and large
number of senators and representa-
tives in congress.
After making a speech before the
waterways convention, the president
will proceed through the southeast,
visiting Alabama, Georgia and the
Carolinas.
On his way down the Mississippi
the president expects to stop at Mem
phis, Vicksburg, Natchez and possibly
one or two other towns.
Representative Bartholdt, of Mis-
souri, obtained the presidents accept
ance of the st. Louis invitation and
the designation of the date of his Wis
it.
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SENATOR McCUMBER LEADING IN
CIPENT ATTEMPT OF
FlLIBUSTER.
NORTHWEST SENATOR'S FIGHT
And on Being Abitted by the Range
Group-MereIy Lack of Under
Standing Which President
Straiehtens Out.

Washington, d. C.-With Senator
Nelson denouncing the accuracy Of the
committees statements as to the
amount of revision, Senator Clapp Civ.
ing notice OF his intention to attack
the bill, and Senator McCumber, OF
North Dakota, leading full sized and
remarkably healthy f1libuster against
held the floor in the developments OF
the tariff fight
II the range and mountain state
be added to the area comprised in the
description northwest" it Is certain
that the northwest completely monop.
hour there was grave danger that the
combination of range" senators and
progressive" senators, aided and
abetted by the thoroughly aroused
senior senator from North Dakota,
might be able to send the tariff bill
back to conference. and seriously jeo-
pardize the life Of the measure which
skinned through the house by IL votes
Saturday night and which has been
thoroughly criticised and dissected
since then.
During the late hours of the after
noon the sun came out again for Mr..
Aldrich and his friends They found
that there were enough points of diff
ference between the range" and the
progressive" senators to prevent
those two aggregations from ever get
ting thoroughly together. They found
also that Mr.. McCumber wanted some
thing that no one else was particular
ly anxious about, and they found above
all that the president was willing to
stand Loyalty by them in putting the
bill through.
Wants Bill to Pass.
Further than this, it developed that
Mr.. McCumber and many of the
range" senators would not take part
in any move to reconsider the bill, if
that movement seriously threatened
the final passage of the measure. AS
Mr.. McCumber stated the case, he
wants the bill changed, and so do the
senators from the hide states" but
under no circumstances does he want
this congress to adjourn without pass
ing a bill nor does he want to be re-
sponsible for the defeat of the bill
The amendment of the manufacture
ing-in-bond" provision, whereby the
northwestern mills are to have the
option to sell by-products of Canadian
grain in this country, is the particular
grievance against which Mr.. McCum-
ber has directed his fire. He declares
that the conferes promised him that
this ampfification of the manufactur
ing-in-bond authority would not be put
in the bill. The senate conferees have
assured him that they did not know 1t
was in the bill, and that it must have
been put thereby the house conferees,
without the knowledge of the senate
conferees.
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LENGTHY WAR OF WORDS PRE-
CEDES FINAL ACTION ON
MEASURE.
TAWNtY ALONE IN affirmative
Northwestern Delegation Is Almost
SoIidIy Against the BlI-Champ
Clark, Minority Leader, Scores
Republicans.


Northwest votes against con-
ference report:
Frank Nj. Nye, Minneapolis;
Fred c. Stevens, ST. Paul; Clar-
ence B. Miller, Duluth; Andrew ].
Volsted. Granite Falls; Halvor
Steenerson, Crookston; Charles
H. Lindbergh, Little Falls; Chas
A. Davis, ST. Peter; w. S. Ham
mond DemocraD, St. James;
AISLE j. Gronna, North Dakota;
w. ]. Cary, Wisconsin,; G. n.
Haughen, Iowa; e. H. Hubbard,
Iowa; l. l.. Lenroot, Wisconsin;
Victor Murdoch, Kansas; John
M. Nelson, Wisconsin,; Miles
Poindexter, Washington; Frank
P. Woods, Iowa; N. E. Kendall,
Iowa.
Northwest vote for conference
report:
j. A. Tawney, Winona; Con-
gressmen Burke and Martin, s.
D.; Congressman Hanna, N. D.
Washington.-The conference re
port on the tariff bill passed the hous'
by . vote Of 1876 to 1873. 1t carried
with it the tariff bill and all it
amendments and was adopted by th'
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ADDITIONAL MABRAY SUITS.
Claims Aggregating $24,45O Filed at
Council Bluffs.

Council Bluffs, Iowa-Seven addi-
tional suits by alleged victims of
J. c. Maybray were filed in the dis
trict court, the claims aggregating S24,-
450 The plaintiffs claim they were
swindled out of the money by means
of fake horse races, fihts and wrest-
ling matches.
The plaintiffs in the suits and the
amounts of their losses are stated as
follows:
A. A. Van Cleave, st. Louis, Mo-,
$4,000.
M. Jackman, Minnesota, $4,000.
James Webber, Shamokin, Pa, $3,-
900. !
George F. Castle. Britt, Ioka, $5,-
OOO
George L. Brown, Norton, Kan, 3d.
200
Adolph Yeske, Hardin, Mont, 81 ,25t.
Ralph P. Mattingly, Nashville, Ten
nessee. $4,000.
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MARK ETS.
Twin City Markets.

Minneapolis, Aug. 3.-Wheat-No.
northern, s1,2sA; No. 2 northern,
$l26as; Sept, $1.035s; Dec, s1O17s !;
durum, No. /. $1.05. Oats-No
white, 40Mc. Barley. Csc. Rye-No
2, 71%c. Corn-No. 3, 65Ac. Flax
No. I, S1.37A.
Duluth, Aug. 3.-No. l northern
$1.25; Sept, 1.041s; Dec, $1.01A.
South st. Paul, Aug. 3-Cattle-
Steers, $4 5Om5.5O; cows, $325@425
Hogs, $7.35M7.75. Muttons, $3.50;
lambs, $500.
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Kansas City is to get q $4,000. 900

depot.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail-
way has in contemplation, it Is
officially stated. the construction of
several branch lines in South Dakota
to open up and develop new wheat
farming lands.
An appeal to the United States
supreme court from the decision Of
Judge Smith Mcpherson in the Mis-
souri, railroad rate cases was filed by
Sanford B. Ladd. representing the
state in the United States district
court at Kansas City.
Clarke NJ. Babbitt, q broker from
Buffalo. N. Y. and A. Y. Bartholomew,
driver of Pierce car in the Glidden
tour, were held up in the western
part of Colorado by two women band
It's and relieved Of money and valu-
ables.
The senate and house conferees
report on the tariff bill is not satis-
factory to President Taft.
A strike has been dclared at BARGE
Iona. Spain. as a protest against the
war in Morocco.
Rev. William r. Huntington, rector
of Grace Episcopal church. New York
city, died a few days ago after lin
gering illness. He was seventy-one
years old.
A campaign against questionable
theatrical productions-the first by
the new police head. Commissioner
Baker-was started in New York.
dition up to July rs by the national
ginners' association gives the general
average as III.
Republicans, democrats, populsts
and prOhibitionists held conventions
In Lincoln, Neb., selected state central
committees and adopted platforms.
Roy Blake, travelling photographer
known as Blonde" Blake, was ar
rested in Clear Creek county, Colo,
and is being held until detective ar
rives from Belleville, ILL.,, to take him
there to answer charge of murder.
The ice axe of DR.. 6pitz of Balti-
more, who was killed by an avalanche
in 1870. was found at the bottom of
the Blossoms glacier at Chamonix,
Switzerland The axe bears the name
of DR.. Spitz.
At Portland, Ore, DR.. r. A. M. Col
lins, a prominent physician was shot
and killed by his wife at the home of
Captain J. H. Sladen. whose house
they were to occupy for the summer.
Jealousy was the case.
Police Inspector Edward C. Mccain
af Chicago was indicted, charged with
malfeasance in Office in the alleged
collection of protection" money from
illegal establishments of the tender
loin."
In New York, Deep Sky, Sioux
chief. obtained license to marry Adele
Rowland, a pretty New York girl,
twenty-one years old. Deep Sky halls
from South Dakota.
Secretary of State Knox is to nego-
tiate new naturalization treaties with
foreign governments.
Mrs. Maria Rook, an American, aged
~, dropped dead on board the Red
Star line steamer Kroonland as the
vessel was leaving Antwerp for New
York.
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Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Aug. 3.-Cattle-Market
strong; steers, s5.eo@7.7O; cows, $3.50
$50; heifers, $3.5O06.OO; bulls, $3.40
s4S5; calves, So OOmS.OO; stockers and
feeders, $375M5.15.
Hogs-market steady; choice, heavy
$S.0O@$8.15; butchers, $7.90@$8.1O;
light. mixed, $7.60@7.75; chice, light,
$7.SO0S.OO; packing, $7.60@7.SO; pigs.
$5.50@5.65; bulk of sales. $7.6O@7.95.
Sheep-Market strong; sheep, $40
5.25; lambs. $6.0007.75; yearlings, IS
@5.50.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-06
N. Y. RECEIVERS DISMISSED.
Federal Court Takes Formal Action In
Pillsbury-Washburn Reorganization.

Norwich, New York-An import
ant hearing in the receivership Of
the Pillsbry-W -Washburn FIGURING Mills
company, limited, Of Minneapolis, was
held before United States Judge
George w. Ray.
The company was able to show that
the reorganization plan had been per-
fected and that it was ready to take
back the property formerly belonging
to 1t and hereafter do business In it's
own name.
Judge Ray ordered the New York
receivers to make and file their final
report. which they did, and they
were then discharged.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-06
ALL CHICAGO MAY SOON WALK.
Street Car Men Considering Advisa.
bility Of Striking.

Chicago, Illinois.-Possibilities of q
general street railway strike in this
city are increasing. Refusal of the
Chicago City Railway company to
make concessions to its motormen and
conductors was met by union leaders
with the prompt issuance OF a call
TOR special meetings in which 10000
street railway employees viii take up
the question Of wages.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-06
OIL MAGNATE TO MARRY.

Bride-to-Be Is Mrs. Burrows Of ParIsr
and New York.
st. Louis, Missouri-Henry Clay
Pierce, executive head of the Waters
Pierce Oil company, is to be married
in London. Virginia Prickett Bur.
rows will be his bride. The wedding
will be solemnized at st. Georges
church, Hanover Square. In obtain.
ing a license both described them.
selves as having been married before,
and the bride-to-be gave her address
as paris and New York"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-06
NEGRO is LYNcHEo IN GEORGIA.
'Peeping Tom Shot to Death BY
Posse Of Citizens.

Wellston, Georgia-Sim Anderson
negro. was taken from a deputy
sheriff and shot to death by q posse
of citizens.
Friday night the negro was caught
peeping into the room occupied by
daughters Of w. p. Bell Bell wounded
the intruder slightly. He was arrested
and was on his way to Perry when
lynched.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-06
STONE IS FREED OF CHARGE.
Senator's Assault on Waiter Train
Declared JustifiAbIe.

Baltimore, Maryland Declaring
that in the circumstances the assault
was justifiable, Police Magistrate
Grammar. dismissed the charge against
Senator VIM. J. Stone, of Missouri, Of
having assaulted Lawrence G.. Brown,
colored waiter on Pennsylvania
railroad train.
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WashinQton.

William B. McMaster. the American
vice consul at Cartagena, was attacked
and seriously wounded by Colombian
patch to the state department from
the legation at Bogota. The attack
was without apparent motive.
"Of late the arresting and deporting
of aliens has increased enormously,
and tendency is noted in some cases
to sacrifice quality of work to quaint
ity. This will not do. There must be
no merely superficial inquiry In any
case. Officers must not submit re-
concentrations for arrest upon irre-
sponsible, uninvestigated accusations"
This was the rebuke administered in
instruction which have just been sent
out by the bureau Of immigration to
all commissioners of immigration and
inspectors in charge.
Secretary of State Knox will soon
initiate proceedings with number Of
construction Of treaties. Almost i'm
mediately upon his arrival In Con-
stantinople Mr. Straus, the new am
bassador, will take up the question of
10 naturalization treaty with Turkey.
President Taft's plans for his west
ern and southern trip in the fall
gradually are taking shape. He has
decided that he will make the trip
down the Mississippi river from st.
Louis to New Orleans late In October
as the guest OF the deep waterways
convention.
The democratic congressional COM
mittee will soon begin It's campaign
work. Its effort will be to win q
majority in the next congressional
election. The executive committee
has just been announced by Chairman
Lloyd, as folc,t: Rainey, Illinois:
Finley. South Carolina; Johnson, Ken
lucky: Hitchcock. Neb.. and Palmer.
Pennsylvania
Personal.
Andrew E. Lee. former governor Of
South Dakota. obtained warrant in
Chicago for the arrest of e. Niles,
said to be broker. The former gov
ernor charges that he was swindled
| by means OF a confidence game.
Secretary Nagel of the department
of commerce and labor rules that an
alien must have $500 or stay out
OF this country.
President Taft triumphed in his
fight for lower duties on lumber.
rough and pIaned, gloves and hosiery.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth has be.
come an enthusiast on aeronautics.
Mrs Ella Flagg. Young has been
placed at the head of the Chicago
schools.
H. C. Pulliam. president OF the Ma
tjonal baseball league. died as the re-
suit OF q self-inflicted wound.
Mrs. Mary 8. Dickerson, Of Kansas
City, aunt Of the wife of Vice Presi-
dent Sherman. left no will. and her
estate. valued ct $500. 900. II now in
|ehAsgs ef the public administrator.
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The State Shoot,

Major G. c. McCrory yesterday
took five of his militiamen to Beau
Sejour Park to practice at rifle target
preparatory to the State Shoot Aug.
9 and 10 at Lake Charles. OF these
five, two will be selected to represent
Company G.. and contest for homers
at Lake Charles. Major McCrory
will leave for the State trials mex
Tuesday and has strong hopes OF
securing representation in the Nat
ional shoot at Camp Perry Ohio.
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Class Room AIDED.

The GLASS room added 10 the Meth
odist church for the twenty boys com
losing Mrs, C:nw Glrard's Sunday
School class, has just been completed
and Sunday was the first time it was
occupied. 1t is a very nice size room,
and prettily papered and conveniently
arranged; altogether it makes a very
attractive class room and the boys
have every reason to be proud of
what they have accomplished. The
room cost seventy-five dollars and the
boys have already made over twenty
i've dollars. and will not only be a short
time before they raise the balance
for twenty boys as enthusiastic and
energetic as these boys are can not
fail to succeed.
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yard and tall iron fence around it and
no one lives there now, for the spirit
of the miser haunts it. He has been
seen walking through the grounds by
night and no one dares go e it.
Some American soldiers killed him
and took the money. They cut his
throat with a saber. AS he was lying
on the floor, dying, they filled sacks
with the pesos. He cursed them as he
was lying in his blood, and said thai
whoever should have a peso of his
would be haunted. You will bring
these pesos back here, he told them,
and throw them into my yard by
night. I will haunt you until you do
it and then | will strange you in your
beds as you sleep. And any man who
shall have n Of these pesos and use
it for his benefit in any way will have
my curse, and unless he m ana
throws the pesos into my yard, l will
haunt him as long as he lives, and will
strangle him and his wife and chill
dren. These pesos shall be known by
a spot of my blood over the eagle.
Sometimes it will not be there and
sometimes it will be seen. When that
spot of blood comes over the eagle on
the peso, it is a warning, and unless it
is thrown into my yard By night l
will kill the man who keeps il or gives
it in trade for goods for his household
or food or drink for himself and chill
dren. This curse | put upon ali who
shall handle my pesos and then he
died, splitting blood at the robbers.
which fell OF the silver coins.
Last week." continued Felipe. 81
found two pesos in my pocket with the
spot Of blood on them. IT was not
there when l got the money. but the
blood spots came out while it was in
my pocket. knew it was the miser's
curse and warning, so that night |
went to Pace and threw them into
the yard of the house where the miser
lived. They are there now, and who
ever wants them may get them, unless
the ghost of the niser has taken them
away knew better than to use the
money! want no bony fingers at my
throat in the night want to wake
up in the morning. So you may save
your lives and the lives of your wives
and children If you heed my counsel.
If you find some day that you have a
haunted peso. l would advise you to
throw it back to the miser.
'The rObherS were all killed The
three of them were found dead, one
after the other, and on their threats
were the red marks where the fingers
of the miser's ghost had strangIed
them, and their tongues We're hanging
out and their faces wera 1.u' ~ ! their
eyes staring, as if they Gould see tie
spirit OF the man they robbed. 1t a:
came TO PASS AS he said y would.
Filipino vas found last week in q town
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-07-30
FARMERS CLUB.
Next 7eeting Will Be Held Sat-
urdsy, Aug Alan Excellent
Program Arranged.

President J. A. Rov announces that
the next meeting of the Farmers Club
will take place Saturday August p
at 3. p. N. at the Industrial Institute,
when an excellent program will be
carried out. The Club has proven
very pleasant and instructive and the
membership is constantly increasing.
There will be no further meeting of
the Truck Growers Association until
Secretary j. c. Nickerson sees fit to
call the members together. DR.. T. B.
Hopkins, the president, considers that
there is no immediate necessity
for meetings and hence the decision
to postpone furthur assembling just
now.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-07-30
!iiE ADVERTISER.
THE PROPOSED SCHOOL TAX.

Owing to the sentiment entertained
by a number of citizens that it would
be advisable to change the proposed
five mill tax for schools to three mills,
tween citizens and the School Board,
at which the question was discussed.
At the close of the conference the
School Board met in executive session
and after considering the matter, de-
cided that a three mill tax would not
yield sufficient revenue for a nine
months session, and therefore it was
necessary to ask for five mills, as at
first proposed.
The question of voting a five mill tax
for maintaining the school session
nine months is o before the prop
erty owners of the town and parish.
In a previous issue of The Adver-
tiser We published a statement by
Supt. Wright showing in detail the
cost of running the schools nine
months, together with the amount and
sources of revenue. This statement
was issued by Supt. Wright for the
information of the taxpayers so that
they might see the necessity of vot-
ing five mills if the schools are to
have a nine months session.
The present of the School
Board are sufficient for only four
months school. This puts the ques-
ton squarely up to the people either
to vote the five mill tax and have a
nine months session or be satisfied
with at most FIVE months schooling
for their children. In u opinion We
should be satisfied with nothing less
than nine months school, and since
there appears no other way to have
it than by voting a five mill tax, then
we must simply vote the tax. We can
not afford to deprive our children OF
the full term of school they are en-
titled to.
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:.
The Haunted
Pesos
By FREDERICK FERDINAND MOORE
Copyright. by Shortstory Pub. Coz

Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Coz
Two thousand FYlipinos we're stand
ing in line before the window of the
paymaster of the army transport serv-
ice, waiting to get their wages for the
week, in bright new silver pesos.
Il hope" said Felipe Lopez, a car
30 checker, that none Of my pesos
will have the mark of blood on them.
1t IL bad enough to work six days in
the hot sun for 20 pesos. but after you
get them it is worse to have the ghost
OF a miser running through your house
trying to take them away from you.
and probably kill you in the bargain"
Francisco Basa, a laborer, who vas
next 20 Lopez in the line, shivered and
rolled a cigarette to steady his nerves
What is this about the haunted
pesos?' he asked.
What exclaimed Felipe, have
you not heard? All the Fililinos know
the story. Have you not heard of the
American miser who saved his silver
pesos until he had a room full of
tuCl1 III q lCQSS Al dCO. Anu no" Ic
was robbed and killed, and cursed the
robber with his dying breath, and
swore that every peso would have q
drop of blood on it and that he would
haunt every nan who kept or used the
money? Everybody knows the story"
The natives near Felipe drew up to
him with terror in their faces and
asked about this awful story of the
haunted pesos, for Filipinos are very
superstitious and believe in ghosts and
bad omens and evil eyes and curses.
1T is a very simple tale" said Fee
lipe, when they pressed him to tell
them about the haunted pesos. There
"a an American who saved all the
pesos he earned as a government en-
gineer. He had his house half full of
them out in Pace. 1t is the house
where Ledesma, the Filipino patriot.
lived before the war with the Ameri
cans. and -nu all know it. 1t has q