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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
STANDARD OIL DAIRYMAN.
New Process of Manufacturing Butter
From Petroleum.

New York, July 9.-The Standard
Oil Company has decided to drive the
COW and the dairyman out of bust
ness. It's skilled chemists have dis
covered a process whereby they can
make giltedged butter as a b~y-product
of crude petroleum. If reports are
true, plans have been prepared and
contracts oon are to be let for the
erection of a big butter-making plant
as a new department of the Standard
Oil works at Bayonne, N. J.
Since the new process was discov-
cred, every precaution possible has
been taken by Standard Oil officials to
prevent the secret leaking out, and it
vas only by accident that it became
public. The butter, cream, sweet
milk, buttermilk and cottage cheese
markets soon are to be dominated by
Standard Oil.
None of the officials. chemists or
employees of the Standard Oil Com
pany will admit that the company
soon was to invade the dairy-product
field.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
FLOUR BUYING SYNDICATE OF
QUARTER MILLION CAPITAL
FORMED.
BtL|EVt SAVING CAN Be MADE
Central Headquarters for United
States to be in Minneapolis, with
C. II. Prior, Former Milwaukee
Head, AS President.

Minneapolis, July 9.-Minneapolis is
to be the center of the greatest single
Hour buying concern in the world-a
syndicate which will purchase for all
the large bakery concerns of America,
representatives of which met in the
city and subscribed to the constitution
and bylaws and articles of incorpora-
ton.
c. II. Prior, former president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
road. will be president of the new
corporation, which will be capitalized
at 1926, 900; John Leaby will be vice
president; George Hawkins, also of
Minneapolis, former confidential ad-
visor to Henry Little and connected
with the Washburn-Crosby company
for IA years, will be general manager.
Central Headquarters Here.
Central headquarters will be opened
in the Flour Exchange within a fort
night and branches will be established
at Louisville, which is the center of
the spring wheat milling industry, Gin,
chnati, Toledo, Baltimore, Chicago and
San Francisco. Boston, Providence,
New York, Philadelphia, Kansas City
and other points.
1t Is the purpose of the corporation,
the official title of which is to be Sc
lected today, to secure for It's stock
holders the advantage Of bottom mar
ket prices through purchase in large
quantity. AS conditions now are bak-
ers buy haphazard and, It is said, fire.
quently pay as high a price, though
they buy in fair quantity, as retailers.
How Will MiIIers Like III
Bakers assert that the National Bis
cult company. which is perhaps the
largest single buyer Of -four In the
country. purchases in 100 to 200 car
load lots on open bids for stated
grades and ayes from 10 to 40 cents
a barrel.
Twenty-Five bakers in Minneapolis
buy from two to ten cars of -four at a
time and have agreed to ally them
selves with the new purchasing syndi
cate.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
Council Bluffs Submerged,

Council Bluffs, Iowa, July S.-More
than half of Council Bluffs is under
water today as the result of the over
flowing of Indian creek, which runs
through the heart of the city.
The railroad yards Of the Illinois
Central and the North Western are
under three feet of water. The whole
eastern part of the town is flooded
and people are going to work in RATS
and boats and hundreds are homeless
as the result of the high water.
The property loss will reach tho8
sands Of dollars. The greatest danger
is that the Missouri river will cut
through into Big lake north of the
city.
The flood has claimed one victim,
Mrs. Mary Krasmiger, so years old,
was drowned on her farm just outside
the city. She left home to care for
her son, who was away when the storm
came. She stepped from the Wabash
roadbed into three feet of water.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
TELEPHONES FIELD WIDENING.
c. p. Railway Soon to Dispatch Trains
BY New System.

Calgary, Alta. July 9.-Inside Of
two weeks the Canadian Pacific rail-
way on the division between Swift
Current and Medicine Hat will be dis
patching trains by telephone instead
of by telegraph. This is an innova-
ton in the middle west. The regular
telegraphing staff will not be cut
down, as the operators will be re-
CURED for general railway work.
The use of the telephone for dis
patching was one of the main SUBJ
jects at the Detroit convention of rail
way telegraph superintendent of
America. ]. Mcmillan, superintendent
of the Canadian Pacific railway tele.
graph at Calgary, a y hat telephone
dispatching, according to reports pre-
sented to the convention, has been
tried out on many important Ameri.
can railways and so satisfactory have
been the results that it's general use
appears to be only a matter of a short
time.
Canadian Pacific trains will carry
telephone sets and fixtures and in case
of any delay ii will be an easy matter
to communicate with the nearest sta
ton.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
Fear Lives Have Been Lost.

Chillicothe, Mo-, July S.-Heavy
damage has been done and it is feared
that there has been some loss of life
in floods that have inundated property.
Heavy rains have swollen creeks and
rivers until they are far out of their
banks. Railroads have been washed
out and crops In many sections are
ruined. At Gaul, the Chicago. Milwau!
kee & st. Paul yards are under water,
which is SO deep thai in ome places
heavy box cars are afloat. The sta
ton agent at Gaul is marooned, the
depot being surrounded by water, from
the overflow of Medicine Creek.
The flow is SO swift that several at
tempts to rescue him by boat have
been unsuccessful.
Nearly a dozen miles of track are
washed out in this section.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
QUITS PULPIT FOR SOCIALISM.
Clergyman Declares Church Has No
Policy on Existing Problems.

Clergyman Declares Church Has No
Policy on Existing Problems.
Troy, N. Y, July 9.-Rev. Loomis o.
Black, pastor of the First Universalist
church and one of the most popular
clergymen Of Troy, has surprised his
congregation by his announcement
that he will retire from the ministry
Aug. l to devote his time to socialistic
work. An offer of double his salary
failed to swerve him from his purpose.
He says he again will occupy
a pulpit as a pastor.
Il have been brought to take this
step by the fact that the church has
no definite policy" said Mr.. Black,
nor does it desire to have any on the
problems before the country today.
The church has absolutely no de-
sire to WELD any influence to help the
common people get fair play. 1t Is
not back of any organization of men
to get their rights. The moneyed
classes control the attitude OF the
church toward any problem"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
REVOLUTION IN COLUMBIA
PERIODICAL DISTURBANCE COM.
IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Political Parties in State Of Chaos
and Risinss Are in
Progress.

Panama, July Snail advices re-
ceived from Columbia report a very
critical condition of affairs in that re-
public. AS the result of the departure
of President Reyes for Europe, the
various political parties, which a few
months ago seemed to be united, are
are indications that Columbia is on the
verge of a great revolution.
The movement on July 4 at Barran-
quilla was successful, the revolution
lists capturing the forts, the Magdalena
river boats and the custom houses.
At first it was believed that the
movement was headed by a coalition
of Conservatives and Liberals, but it
is now learned that the Liberals re-
fused to join in the rising, which was
engineered by the ltra-COnservatives.
There is a rumor here that certain
influential Columbians are publicly in
favor of following Panama's example
and constituting a new republic to be
formed of the departments of Caucau
and Antioquia and a part of Bolivar.
1t is considered probable hat congress
will not be convened on July 20 as in
tended, as it would probably elect a
to President Reyes, who,
under the existing circumstances, will
not be likely to satisfy all parties, and
the desire of President Holgium and
his advisers is to do nothing that
would further develop political pas
sionS.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

In New York 4 were killed and 1872
Injured az the price OF Fourth OF
July patriotism.
Carrying four great boxes of e. H.
Harriman's favorits cigars, three Of
his children, Mary, Caroline and Ro-
land sailed on the Kron Prinz Will
helm to join him in Europe.
Moro Outlaw Chief and the whole
Of his band have been wiped out In
the Philippines.
The German and Austrian railroad
authorities have informed Russia that
they are about to take steps to insti-
tue a quarantine on the frontier
against cholera.
President Taft paid high tribute to
the federal constitution in his speech
At Lake Champlain.
The American Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION decided to establish ma
tional headquarters in New York City.
Harvard was victorius In the three
boat races against Yale on the New
London, Conn, course.
Employees of the bureau Of engrav-
ing and printing have been placed on
a per diem instead of monthly payroll.
Charged with using the United
States mail for lottery purposes three
Chinese shops in Washington were
raided and their proprietors arrested.
Rear Admiral William F. Potter
who commanded the fourth division
of the Atlantic battleship feet on it's
voyage around the world, last week
became chief of the bureau Of naviga-
ton, relieving Rear Admiral John E.
Pillsbury, retired.
The United States and Nicaragua
are hopeful of reaching an amicable
understanding on the Emery claim.
Prof. Louis T. Moore of Cincinnati,
who, It Is understood, will spend the
summer with his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Taft, has arrived at the summer cap.
ital in Beverly,
The nan and woman who committed
suicide by rowing a boat over the dam
In the st. Joseph river at South Bend,
Ind, were II. Lindeman and wife Of
Chicago. They were on their bridal
trip.
An order was issued at Pittsburg
by the local board of the United Mine
Workers Of America instructing the
striking miners In the Kansas dis.
trict, 5000 in number, to return to
work.
President Taft hopes to make a
western trip this summer, providing
the tariff bill can be cleared up by
August l.. The Alaska-Y ukon-PaciiC
exposition at Seattle will be the pres.
ident's destination. He will visit
Omaha either going or returning. A
tentative itinerary and program is be.
ing made out.
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General.

An investigation Of the charges
made by James r. Wheeler, a gradu'
ate of the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school,
the students were cruely treated in
that institution was begun at Carlisle
by Inspector E.. p. Holcomb of the
bureau of Indian affairs.
James Yadkin Joyner of North Car.
DINA was chosen president of the Ma
tional Educational association.
Senator Aldrich had whip hand In
the senate and sent all attempted
wards the final vote.
Customs officials will have a heavy
task in adjusting to the new tariff
schedules If 1t is effective when
signed.
The Governor of Nebraska may call
an extra session of the legislature to
enact a new guaranty law.
The crop report OF the department
of agriculture shows grains in more
fiourishing condition than the aver.
age In July.
The Nebraska Liquor Dealers asso.
citation has decided to go into court
and fight the early closing law. The
suit will be brought In Omaha.
1t Is said the temporary in junction
granted by Judges Van Deventer and
T. C. Munger will tie up the enforce.
ment of the Nebraska bank guaranty
law for a year, even though it is de
clared valid.
Ernest w. 8. Pickhart of New York
died in a London hotel on July 4 OF
an overdose of a drug taken to induce
sleep. Mr.. Pickhart was the divorced
husband of the ~stepdaughter of the
late Robert Roosevelt, uncle of Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
Commander John Hood has been
designated as the head of the board
appointed to make a second inquiry
into the cause of the death of Second
Lieutenant James M. Sutton Of the
Marine Corps at Annapolis, In Octo-
Der, 1907.
The steamer Carolina sailed from
San Juan for New York, having on
board all the American school teach
ers who taught in Porto Rico last
year, unuer contract.
Wages of the 5000 men and boys
employed in the plant of the Mary
land Steel company at sparrows
Point were increased 10 per cent.
The senate worked on Independ'
ence day. 1t being the twelfth time In
the history OF the country that this
high legislative body SO met.
Oscar Straus. who was recently ap
pointed American ambassador to Tur
key. sailed for his new post at Con
stantinople.
President Taft. II the tariff bill Is
out of the way by August l. will visit
. number of western states. including
Washington and the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition.
Washington. d. C., set an example
the rest Of the country In Z safe
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
AS TOLD IN A LINE
A BOILING DOWN OF THE NEWS
OF THE DAY.
MENTIONED IN SMALL SPACE
The Busy Reader Can Absorb In q
Few Moments a Good Deal Of
information.
Foreign.

Mail advices from Colombia report
a very critical condition of affairs in
that republic. AS the result of the de-
the various political parties which a
few months ago seemed to be united
are now completely d~isorganized, and
there are indications hat Colombia
is on the verge of a great revolution.
The German potash syndicate has
renewed its agreement, Hermann
Schmittman and his On, Waldemar
Schmittman, representing the Asher
leben and Solstedt mines, having af-
fixed their signatures to the contract.
A portion of the army stationed at
Baranquilla took up arms against the
Colombian government, made prison
ers of the municipal authorities and
proclaimed Gonzales Valencia as the
president.
A special dispatch from Belgrade
says that $50 Austrian soldiers n
30 Austrian gendarmes have been cap
tured on a Servian island in the River
Drina, on the frontier. The Servian
government has protested to the ad-
ministration at Vienna against the
intrusion.
The British, German and French
bankers concerned in the Hankow-
Sze-Chuen railroad oar of $27 500, 600
began consideration of the terms un.
der which Americans are TO be ad.
mitted to participation.
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation Of Labor, was
the guest at a dinner given by the
labor party at the English house Of
commons.
A young woman, who for ten days
was caught In a cave-in OF a railroad
tunnel at st. Gall. Switzerland. was
dug out alive. She suffered agonies
of cold and hunger during this
period, but managed to sustain life by
sucking moisture from her clothing,
on which water occasionally trickled.
During the recent fighting in from,
of Fee. between the forces of the
pretender and the troops of the sultan,
fourteen of the imperial soldiers were
captured and decapitated and their
heads exposed in the ~pretenders
camp.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
MccLEARY FOR MINT DIRECTOR.
His Nomination Expected Before the
Close of Session.

Washington. July 9.-There are
strong indications that James T. Nc
Cleary, of Minnesota, former represen-
tative in congress and later assistant
postmaster-general, will be appointed
director Of the mint, succeeding Frank
Leach, WHO has resigned to accept a
business position In California.
Mr.. McCleary, who is now out Of
the city, is known to be the choice Of
Secretary McVeagh and presumably
of the president and his nomination is
expected before the expiration of the
present session of congress.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
CABINET NEARLY HITS ADEE.
Second Assistant Secretary Of State
Has Narrow Escape from Injury.

Washington, July 9.-Alvey A. Adee,
second assistant secretary Of state,
narrowly escaped serious injury yes
terday in the basement Of the state
department building. when a section
of a large filing cabinet which was be-
ing installed by workmen on the third
floor fell through IN open shaft formed
by the circular stairway directly above
a spot where Mr.. Adee stood convers-
ing with several other government of.
ficials. Their lives were probably
saved by the timely warning shrieked
out by a workman.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
People Flee to Roofs.

Kansas City, July 7.-Pattonsburg,
Mo. a town of 1900 inhabitants, sixty,
miles north of here, is ten feet under'
water. Chief of Police Snow of Kan,
sas City today sen aid in answer to-
a telegram appealing for boats to RESI-
u the marooned citizens, many of
whom had been driven to the roofs of
the houses.
Fire had destroyed a lumber yard
and two residences, it was said.
The boats SEM in by outside towns
arrived at Pattonsburg during the fore
noon and soon all persons occupyingt
dangerous positions had been removed
to higher grounds.
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GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.
Department Of Agriculture Issues
Periodical Statement.

PcrlOOlCdI Stdtemcnt.
Washington, July S.-The following
crop estimates were issued today by
the crop reporting board of the de-
partment of agriculture:
Corn Area planted, 100, 006, 900
acres, an increase Of 7,218,0 900 acres,
(7.1 per cent?, as compared with the
final estimate Of last years acreage.
Average condition, 1913 per cent as
compared with S2.S on July l, 1908;
S0.2 on July l, 1907, and 84.8, the ten
year average on July l..
Winter Wheat - Average condition
or July /, or when harvested, S2.4 per
cent, as compared with S0.7 last month;
500 at harvest, 1908; 1873 in 1907, and
1916, the average at time of harvest
for the past ten years.
Spring Wheat-Average condition,
92.7 per cent, as compared with 95.2
last month; S9.4 on July /, 1908; S7.2
on July /, 1907, and $40 the ten-year
average on July L.
The amount of wheat remaining on
farms, 2.3 per cent Of last years crop,
or about 1902, 900 bushels as COM
pared with 33,797 900 on July 1, 1908,
and 43, SOS, 900, the average amount on
farms on July l. for the past ten years.
Oats-Average condition, 1873 per
cent as compared with S8.7 last month;
S5.7 on July l, 1908; $40 on July /,
1907, and SS.S the ten-year average on
July l.
Tobacco Acreage-1,S03 1886 acres, or
1922, oil acres (26.6 per cent more than
last year,; condition, 1913 per cent.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
BATTLE WAS FOR POSSESSION
OF PISTOL BETWEEN THIEF
AND HER SON.
TERRIBLE DUEL FOUGHT IN DARK
Family Is Awakened to Find
Thieves in House. One Is
Severely Wounded; Both
Are Arrested.

New York, July 1.-Two shoeless
men, one of the wound in the arm
and thigh by bullets, are held by the
police charged with the murder of
Mrs. Sophia Staber, wife Of George
Staber, a New York importer of paper,
in whose residence at Flatbush, Long
Island, there occurred a battle with
burglars, in which Mrs. Staber met
death.
The men admitted that they were
implicated in the burglary, but at first
denied any part of the murder. They
say they are Carlo Giro, born in Tries
te, Austria, and John Smith" The
latter, who speaks with a strong Ger
man accent, was the n wounded. He
was operated upon last night and told
that he might not live and urged to
tell the whole truth. He admitted, the
police say, that it was a bullet from
his pistol, discharged in a struggle
with Mrs. Staber's son George that
killed her.
Giro was picked up first after the
burglary, while trying to beg or buy a
pair of shoes to replace those which
he had removed while entering the
house. Smith was found hidden under
a bush, bleeding, about a mile from
the Staber house. Two pair of shoes
found by the Stabers on their front
steps, the men acknowledged were
fhnirC GnnrUn Sfahnr q CON ilnnti-
fed both men as those who entered
the house.
Desperate Battle Ensues.
Mrs. Staber was shot dead while
standing in her bedroom door, Mr..
Staber was the first to be awakened,
by the flash of an electric pocket
lamp, carried by one of the burglars.
Who are your" he demanded.
Keep quiet and we won't hurt
you" came the answer, I" we want
your money"
Mrs. Staber here awoke and began
to shrek. The burglar withdrew to
the hall, but the mothers cries had
aroused her con, George. AS he step
ped from his door, a man struck at
him in the darkness, missed and
stumbled down stairs. At the same
instant he saw the second burglar,
grappled with him and fought him in
to the bathroom.
In the struggle the burglar managed
with his free hand to draw a seven
shot automatic pistol. Then began an
even fiercer fight for the pistol. In the
meantime, Mrs. Staber was standing
in the doorway, screaming, not heed
ing her husbands attempts to pull her
into the room. Young Staber succeed
ed in keeping the muzzle of the burg
lars gun away from him, but it was
nevertheless discharged.
Two shots went wild, the third cut
the draw string of his pajamas, set
the cloth on fire and, though not
wounding him, killed his mother. Just
as young Staber finally got control of
the pistol, the burglar wrenched loose.
Staber chased him down the stairs,
firing as he ran. Two shots evidently
took effect, but the last two cartridges
misfired and the burglars temporarily
escaped.
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Washington.

The senate will be represented in
the conference on the tariff bill by
eight men. five republicans and three
democrats, all of whom will be select.
ed according to seniority of member
ship on the committee on finance,
Senators Aldrich, Burrows, Penrose,
Hale and Cullom will be the republi,
cans, and Senators Daniel, Money and
Bailey the democratic members of the
conference committee on the part OF
the senate.
Cvnically disposed statesmen are
opining that the effort to save from
$50, 600, 900 to $50, 10000 a year in
the expense of the federal government
will not only fail, but that within the
next three years there will be a large
upward turn in the national budget.
In connection with the bureau Of
plant industry of the department OF
agriculture, the forest service has
been carrying OIL a series of expert,
ments relative to the ~re-seeding OF
overgrazed areas upon the national
forests in the west.
OulItu OldttS SeHdlOT "A. d. Cuui'
Minis of Iowa and members of the Fiji
ty-third regiment band, stationed at
Fort Dodge, will be guests of honor at
the midsummer picnic arranged by the
Hawkeye club of Spokane. Wash, at
Natatorium park there on August Z.
A letter received in Kansas City
from Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
announced the government would par.
ticipate in the experiments being con.
Quoted there by DR.. c. ]. Shiler, who
is attempting to find a cure for hos
cholera. 1t is stated an expert on
hogs will be sent there from Wash.
ington.
John w. Roberts Of Lincoln has
been appointed scientific assistant IL
connection with agricultural depart
ment. C. K. Campbell of Omaha was
appointed messenger in army head.
quarters In Omaha.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
Personal.

DR.. George w. Martin. prominent as
a prison reform worker and as chap
lain al state penal institutions, died
at his home in Lincoln, Neb.
Charged with using the United
States mails for lottery purposes. three
Chinese shops were raided in Washing,
ton and their proprietors arrested.
Charles A. Luccock, former pastor
of the Union Methodist Episcopal
church and now in charge of a Kan.
sas City church, vas found dead in
a room in an Office building in st
Louis.
United States immigration officials
at Seattle arrested Mrs. Vera De Mole,
who arrived recently from Hongkong,
charging that she is not entitled to EN-
ter the United States.
Ambassador Bryce responded to Q
toast at the banquet given in honor
of President Taft at Champlain ter.
centenary celebration.
Lieutenant Colonel J. M. Banister,
chief surgeon of the Department of the
Missouri, has completed the medical
and sanitary inspection of Forts
Crook and Omaha.
T. l.. McWhitnev. a well known
writer, speaker and minister of the
Christian church. died at Fellow
Springs, Ohio.
Harry X. Thaw is to be transferred
from the Matteawan asylum to the
White Plains Jail.
DR.. Streumpel, the noted physician
who II treating e. H. Hartman. says
his patient y showing much improve