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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
A: WoLTER MUST DIE.
Electric Chair for Murderer OF Miss
- Wheeler. .

Albert Wolter, a degenerate youth
of 10 years, who gloated over lewd
pictures and was 'craZy" o wo-
men, must die in the electric chair
for the murder of Ruth Wheeler, a
pretty ~15-year-old stenographer of
New York. After only one hour and
fifty minutes of deliberation a jury in
the court of special sessions found
him guilty of murder in the first de-
gree at 1880 o'clock Friday night,
bringing to a close a trial marked by
it's swift movement and It's testimony
Of horror.
His counsel said with e%loquence that
Wolter was too tender hearted to hurt
a cat, but twelve men decided that he
a s%trangled Ruth Wheeler and
thrust, her, while yet alive, in his fire.
place, where, soaked with oil, her
crumpled body writhed and burned.
With the same wax-faced 'ndiffer-
ence that he had shown throughout
the trial, Wolter vinced no emotion
when the verde was announced.
With almost inhuman/ complacency he
had been found asleep in his cell while
the jury was celebrating. He will
be sentenced on Wednesday.
The jurors themselves showed emo
ton, while the boy who must die
showed none. When asked if they
had found a verdict William V. Kulp,
foreman, answered n a shaking voice,
1--WE have and announced that they
had found Wolter guilty of murder in
the first degree.
No relatives of the murderer were
in court to hear the verdict. His aged
parents were in court during the at
ternoon. Wolter refused to talk. II
don't want to talk tonight, I'm tired,
and j want to get a good sleep first
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRADE,
Bryan, Trip Ended, Points
Chances in South America.

William J.. Bryan, who has just
made a tour of South America, re-
turned to New York the other day on
board the Red D. Line steamship Car.
acas. Mr.. Bryan talked of his trip
to the newspaper men. He was en-
thusiastic over the possibilities Of
South America to be developed by the
opening of the panama Canal.
South America is bound to become
the great market for the products of
this country" said Mr.. Bryan. Here
tofore our merchants and manufacture
ers have been kept busy with the home
markets. but now they are reaching
out for the trade of the countries to
the south of us, and they will gain
it in time. The increased sale of our
goods within a very recent period dem
onstrated that we are already begin
ming to see the necessity for reaching
out and grasping the opportunities
that lie all ready to our hand in the
South American countries. The open
ing of the Panama Canal, which will
not be delayed later than 1915, in my
opinion will lead to a marvellous de-
velopment of trade relations with the
countries on the west coast of South
America"
During the next fifty years." con-
tinuel Mr.. Bryan, between 2~5,00O,OOO
and 10000, 900 emigrants will find a
home in South America, and the So
cial and economical changes that will
be brought about by this shift in pop
ulation will bring up for consideration
wholly new and probably difficult prob
lens"
Mr.. Bryan would not discuss the
letter sent by him to be read at the
Jefferson day dinner in Washington.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29

Bertram Armytage, who was a mem
Der of Sir Ernest Shackleton's south
polar expedition, has committed sui
eide by Shooting himself with a re-
volver.
Prince Joachim, the youngest son of
the Kaiser, following the example of
his brother Adalbert, will enter the
navy as soon as his studies are COM
pleted.
Admiral Montecuccoli of the Aus
TRAN navy, with his staff of experts,
has completed the plans for the new
naval base at Sebenico, on the Dalma-
tan coast.
The administrators of the Carnegie
hero fund have decided to make awards
to the widows of three soldiers who
lost their lives in rescue work at the
recent floods in Paris.
The Russo-Finnish bill giving the
duma authority over Finland has been
introduced in the duma. After debate
the measure was referred to a commit
tee of wenty- Ion members.
A thousand weddings in one city in
one day should come near breaking the
record, yet the reports show that there
was slightly in excess of this number
in Vienna on the Sunday before Lent.
The prolonged negotiations over the
new wage agreement between the
South Wales coal owners and miners
have been broken off and a strike of
200, 1000 miners is regarded as inevita-
BILE soon. This strike will affect
altogether 1000, 900 workers, including
railway and lock employees and others
dependent upon the collieries.
DR.. Sebastian Albrecht, who was
graduated from the University of Wis
censin in the class of 1900, and for
some years has been connected with
the staff of Lick Observatory, has re-
Gently been appointed first astronomer
in the National Observatory Of the Ar.
genttne republic.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
SHOOTING AT STRIKE OPENING.
One Man in Riot at Press.
ed Steel Plant Near P~ittsburE.

One Man in Riot at Press
ed Steel Plant Near P~ittsburE.
Without warning 1000 men, mostly
foreigners, employed in the erecting
department of the Pressed Steel Car
Company, Schoenville, Pa, ceased
work the other day. Within an hour
a workman had been shot in the left
arm and the chief of the car COM
pany's police had been severely beaten
by members of the strikers body and
taken to a hospital. The trouble is
reported to have started over the dis
charge of four workmen. The men
are said to be members of the Indus
trial Workers of the World. When
the whistles blew for the opening Of
the plant the workmen gathered at
the gates and discussed the situation
noisily. Chief Of Police Smith and his
officers attempted to dispense the gath
ering. Smith was struck down from
behind with a blackjack. AS he fell
he fired several shots from his auto
matte pistol. One bullet lodged in the
left arm of a striker.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
Interesting
News
Items
SOLDIERS HOME COTTAGES.
State Board Takes Action with Refer
cncc to Their Erection.

The state soldiers home board, dur-
ing a recent meeting, took important
action with reference to the erection
of cottages for the old soldiers OF
South Dakota and their wives, on the
grounds of the state soldiers home at
Hot Springs. The board adopted a
resolution to the effect that when any
old soldier and his wife, entitled to
admission to the home wish to enter
the home, and who will contribute the
sum of $500, the management or the
home is authorized to construct a two
room cottage, such as is provided by
the state. and to be finished in q good,
workmanlike with porches
and approaches. The cottage is to be
occupied by the soldier and his wife
so contributing for the term of their
natural lives. and by no one else as
long as either may live. They will re-
ceive maintenance from the state, in
Guiding clothing for the soldier, so
long as they may live and comply with
the rules and regulations governing
the home. The cottage Will revert to
the state upon the death OF the soldier
and his wife. Now that authority has
been granted by the board, it is eX-
pected that Il m of such cottages
will be erected during the coming
year.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
DAKOTA'S APRIL STORM.
Recent One Not as Severe as on Some
Former Occasions.

The snow and windstorm that pre-
vailed YER South Dakota Saturday
and Sunday was not as severe as some
of it's predecessors. The temperature,
which had been unusually high for the
three preceding weeks, occasionally
going above the so mark, dropped to
"a. On April IA, 1873, the state was
visited by a storm more severe than
h one just experienced. Some snow
fell n the storm was made histori-
cal by the fact that the Seventh caval-
~, Gen. Clusters regiment, was in
camp at Yankton. preparing for a
march to the indian country. The
whole of the outfit was showed under
and had to be dug out, the women be-
ing taken to Yankton on sleds drawn
by the men.
On April 10 and 20, 1905, another
disagreeable storm occurred. The tenn
perature registered II above and five
inches of snow fell, which was piled
into drifts. Again on April II, 1907,
the temperature dropped to Is de-
grees. which is the lowest recorded
at the weather bureau at Huron dur
ing the month of April. In the same
year., on May 5, the temperature went
down to 20 degrees and about three
instance in May when so much snow
fell and the temperature was as low
as given. Damage to crops by the
late storm is not SO great as early
registered.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
u. S. TRADE WITH ISLANDS.
Report Shows Value of Goods Sent
to PHILIPPINES Is $~1O,151,276.

Report Shows Value of Goods Sent
to Philippines Is $1O,151,276.
An increase of about So per cent III
the total trade in domestic merchandise
between the United States and the Phil
ippine islands during the eight months
ended Feb. rs last, as compared with
the corresponding period of the preced-
ing year, is recorded by the bureau of
statistics. The enormous increase is
attributed by the bureau to the removal
of tariff duties on domestic merchan-
disc passing between the United States
and the islands. The value of such
products shipped from the United
States to the Philippines during the
period mentioned was ~$10,151,27G.
against $6,S71,764 in the correspond
ing months of last year. The value Of
merchandise imported into the United
States from the islands was ~$11,420,475,
against S7,070,1S2 last year. This in
crease in trade with the Philippines,
the bureau said, practically equaled
the gain in the commerce between the
United States and all other portions of
its noncontiguous territory in the same
DpriOd.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
UNIONS MAKE VOTES FELT.
Joined Forces with the Democrats at
Aberdeen.

An interesting fact in connection
with the democratic victory in Tues
days election at Aberdeen is that the
party did not have the ac-
tive support of any newspaper in the
city. The two daily newspapers were
both enthusiastic in their support of
the republican ticket, and the demo-
cratic paper, a weekly, confined its
support to an announcement published
over the signature of DR.. Rock, the
democratic candidate for mayor I'm
ION labor figured largely in the result.
An organization of business men call
ed the Business Mems league and the
labor unions haV been unable to
agree upon nan questions, and it has
come out, since election. that the I'M
ion men resolved, quietly, to lake
their power felt by voting solidly for
the democratic candidates and against
the existing order of things.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
NEW OUTER STRUCK.
.Artesian Well i'll Aurora County Fur
nishes a Surplus of Water.

Artesian Well III Aurora County Fur
nislles Il Surplus of Water.
What is believed to be the greatest
artesian spouter for its size in South
Dakota has been struck on the farm
OF Thomas Kelly, in Aurora county.
In the past Kelly has been seriously
handicapped in his farming operations
by n lack of water for domestic pur-
poses as well as for his stock, but now
he has so much water hat it will
prove quite n problem how to care for
the surplus. The artesian we'll which
has just been completed on his farm
is $50 feet deep and has a flow of $50
gallons per minute, the flow being
equal to 5000 gallons per hour, or
216, 600 gallons every t~wenty-four
hours. Surplus water from the we'll
in a short time will form an artificial
lake. The spouter is only 2 IL inches
in diameter and yet the flow is great
er than that of many artesian wells
double it's size.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
DEMOCRAT WINS IN LANDSLIDE.
James S.. Ravens Elected to Con-
gress in New York State.

lii the Congressional election at
Rochester, N. Y, the other day Re
publican s~tandpatism was dealt a
blow as terrific in its effect as that
which il sustained a few weeks AZ in
the Fourteenth Massachusetts Dis
trict, where Eugene N. Foss, running
as a Democrat, reversed the tradition
al majority in a district supposed to
be r~ock-ribbed Republican.
James S. Ravens, a Democrat, has
been elected to fill the vacancy in Con-
gress caused by the death of James
Brock Perkins over George w. AL
bridge, the Republican boss of Monroe
County, by the unprecedented p~lurali-
ty of $500. The district, the Thirty
second, had not gone Democratic since
1900.
The defeat was overwhelming. Mr..
-, Perkins, a Republican, carried the dis
trict in 1908 by 10.167. Fighting sim
g~le-handed, Mr.. Ravens succeeded in
almost reversing this plurality in a
campaign that lasted but seventeen
days. While the so-called moral is
sue" was undoubtedly paramount in
the campaign, there seems also to be
no doubt that the Payne-Aldrich tar
if bill had a great deal to do with
the result. Aldridge had come out
tlat-footed as indorsing the tariff law
as it stands. Havens was avowedly a
tariff reformer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
DEATH ENTERS DR.. HYDE TRIAL
G.. T. Twyman, Important Witness
for State Passes Away Suddenly.

G.. T. Twyman, Important Witness
for State Passes Away Suddenly.
. Death has entered the trial of Dr..
B. C. Hyde, who is charged with hav-
ing by the use of poison killed Colonel
Thomas Swope in Kansas City. 1t
was just after City Attorney James A.
Reed had concluded the opening state
ment for the State when the an
nouncement was made hat DR.. G.. L.
Twyman, one of the principal wit
nesses for the prosecution, had died.
DR.. Twyman was taken i'll Saturday
and it has been announced hat he
probably would be the first witness to
be called by the State. His death was
attributed to acute di~vcrticulitis.
The opening of the case was marked
by a sharp clash between counsel for
the State and defense, the latter OBJ
jecting strenuously to Mr.. Reed, as
special counsel, making the opening
statement. The objection was over
r,,1o1
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
RACE TIC IN X

Negro Population of Coleman, Texas,
Twelve negroes badly beaten. one
white man seriously injured and the
entire negro population of Coleman.
Tex.-between $50 and 200 men, wo-
men and children-driven out Of town
was the result of the riots which be-
q Sunday afternoon and ragged far
into the night. That many persons
were not killed or seriously wounded
II due to h fact hat the negroes Of
fered no resistance except in isolated
cases and the whites contented Them
selves with using clubs. sticks and
stones instead of firearms.
Until the Santa Fee railroad began
using negro labor on the section and
for construction work In that section
= black face was a rarity, and trou-
BILE has beeh brewing ever since the
negroes IN considerable numbers be-
. coming into town. This feeling
has been greatly intensified lately by
alleged ~infiammatory differences of
some Iof the negroes who asserted
that they were there and there to stay.
With this feeling Of histility exist
Ing It needed u a spark to start the
trouble.sand this spark was furnished
Sunday when two white youths be-
came involved In a fight with a negro.
Quickly the wore spread and in a
short space Of time q mob Of more
than 1000 men and boys was sweep
ing through the section of the town.
occupied by negroes. clubbing and
atOninwe ererv black haad fbot anraar
ed. .7
Mayor Miller begged and pleaded
and threatened the mob. but his
words fell IN deaf ears.
An old negro preacher who Is alleg-
ed to have made himself. particularly
obnoxious. was pursued in the hills
by 2 small partys Of whites after ,hav-
Ing escapsd the mob BY q narrow
margin.
The wounded white man, w L.
Tr1snble. received severe cuts and
bruises about the head.
AL2 M.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
South Dakota
State News
Gathered
Throughout
the State
TAX FERRETS WIN.
Court Decides Case Against Minnciin-
ha COunt

Court Decides Case Against Inc
Ia County.
s. II. Wright, attorney for the
plaintiffs, has been officially ADVISED
by Judge Trip, of the state CIRCUIT
court of the First circuit, VINO was
called in to hear the case in place OIL
Judge Jones, of Sioux Falls, that ne
had o~verruled the demurrer to the
complaint in the ease of f. f. Pierson
and G, d. Savage vs.. Minnehaha coun-
ty. This. is known as the tax ferret
case. The county commissioners, II
is alleged, engaged Messrs. pierson
and Savage to make an investigation
as to back taxes which never had
been paid, and they entered upon the
work, finding a great deal of property,
largely in the form of mortgages, up
on which taxes had not beer paid.
The ferrets finally were discharged
by the county commissioners and the
ferrets instituted an action in the cir
cult court to recover a certain per cent
of the back taxes which they alleged
they had unearthed. The county hled
the demurrer, in which the claim was
made that the board of county COM
m]issioners had exceeded it's authority
in engaging the services of the ~ferrets.
In his decision on this feature of the
case Judge Trip holds that the COM
missioners We're vested with power to
employ the ]ferrets, and that the COM
missioners could not legally m
them without their consent or COM
p%ensation. The extent and liability
of the county will have 10 be deter
mined by q future trial.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
COTTON FRAUD is DISCOVERED
Forged Bills of Lading Are Sent to
England.

A severe shock has been expert
enced in the Liverpool cotton market,
according to Fridays Shipping Ca
Zette. in the discovery of forged bills
of lading for cotton %purporting to
have been shipped from the United
States. The quantity involved is said
to be between $1,000 and 10000 bales.
According to the Gazette it is diff
cult to ascertain which bills of ladins
are bona fide and which are fraudu-
lent, and this point will be deter
mined only upon the arrival of the
vessels and discharge of their car
goes.
The paper adds that some eighteen
local cotton firms may be involved.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
Falls Thirty Feet.

While working on a scaffold on the
outside of the third story of the Da-
okla Central Telephone company's
building at Aberdeen The scaffold
broke and Harry Walker and NJ. Ryan
were preciDitated to the cement side
walk thirty feet below. Walkers hip
was broken and Ryan's back was in
iured. Their hurts are serious.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
HEIRS LOSE THEIR SUIT.
Chicago Doctor Awarded S1OO,O 900 OF
the McVickcr Estate.

DR.. L.. C. Fl. Zeigler. of Chicago,
by a supreme court decision rendered
Thursday. is entitled to 500, 900 from
the estate of Mrs. james H. McVicker,
as provided by the contract he held
to render her medical attendance dur-
ing her life. DR.. Zeiglcr lived up to
his part of the contract for five years,
when Mrs. McNicker died. Her
heirs attacked the contract and won
in the lower court, but this decision
was reversed byf the Illinois supreme
court at Springfield today.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
SUPREME COURT RULES.
Schrader and Thorson Will Have t.
File New Petitions.

Schrader m Tliorson Will Have t.
File New Petitions.
In the application of John F. Sch
raider for a writ of ~mandamus to com
pei the secretary of state to accept a
petition placing himself in nomination
as a candidate for the Second con-
gressional district the court mani
mously held Friday afternoon that
h secretary had taken the proper
procedure in rejecting the petition of
Schrader n that Of Thomas Thor
son, who attempted to file for the
First district. The contention was
that the referendum did not apply to
such a law, but the court holds diff
ferently. This means thai these two
candidates will have to file new petit
lions to get their names upon the pri-
mary ballot.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
RETAIL
Plans Being Made for State Convcn-
ton Next Month.

Secretary N. s.. Tyler of Sioux Falls,
together with other officers and mem
bers of the association, has completed
the work of preparing for the thir-
tenth annual convention of the South
Dakota Retail Merchants and Hard
ware Dealers association, which will
be held at Yankton on Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday, May 10, II and
IL. This is one of the big ASSOCIATIONS
of the state, and the coming v
ton will be one of the best attended
held in South Dakota this year. The
association has a very large member
ship in all parts of the state, and prac-
tically every city and town in the
state is expected to be represented
at the annual convention.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
Coal Lands Withdrawn.

Secretary Ballinger of the depart
ment of the interior has Withdrawn
from entry at proXimately thirteen
and a half million acres of coal lands
in southeastern Montana, believed to
contain valuable deposits. pending ex-
animation and classification as to their
values.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
FORTUNE FOR SWEETHEART.
loWan's Wealth Rcverts to Girl He
Loved Years Ago.

loWan's Wealth Reverts to Girl He
Loved Years Ago.
In 1857 a dentist of Franklin, N. H,
named Steven Bailey fell in love with
a pretty little girl named Etty Bur-
nj He was crossed in love and
went west and settled in Iowa. Last
winter he was found frozen to death
at Juniper Springs, Colo. In all these
So years he had not forgotten Pretty
Etty Burbank and when his will was
probated a few days s it was found
he had left her 40 acres of land and a
dwelling house near Mason City. Ia,
and thousands of dollars.
ETY. Burbank is married now and is
Mrs. Osgood, of Brookline, Mass. Her
brother is Alonzo Burbank, president
of the International Paper company,
Of New York.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
Field Estate worth s7e.2e2,e5s

The net value of the estate of the
late Marshall Field of Chicago is $79.-
22622,G5S, according to an estimate
made public when Judge Rinaker in
the county court entered a decree in
the inheritance tax litigation which
has been appealed to the supreme
court of Illinois.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
Fruit Damage May Be Small.

G. s. Natter, wner of an orchard
of nearly 500 trees. adjoining Huron,
says that after a careful examination
of h fruit bud he is convinced that
h damage resulting to fruit in that
locality by h late freezing weather
Is much smaller than at first believed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
RIOTS RECURRING IN CHINA.
Lawlcss Natives Engage in Serious
Disturbances.


The lawlessness of >he natives
which began at Chang Sha, the CAPT
tai of Human province. China, is re-
ported to be spreading. Advices re-
ceived at Pekin state that riots lave
occurred at Ming Slang, the site of
a Protestant mission, about thirty
miles west of Chang Sha. - mission
school at vi Yang, twenty miles north
of Ming Slang, has been burned. The
foreigners are said to have escaped
harm.
Foreign residents at Yo Chow We're
preparing to leave that place last
night. These reports We're coupled
with the statement that q wholesale
desertion of the troops has taken
place.
One hundred Chinese from the Chi
nese cruiser that recently arrived at
Chang h are guarding the foreign
settlement there.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
Crew Is Rescued.

The crew Of the British Indian
Navigation company's steamer SAHARA,
which went ashore on the shoal rocks
near Newcastle, N. s. W., Wednesday,
were rescued by the steamer Arara
and landed Thursday.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
NEARLY A SCORE LOSE LIVES.

A Disastrous Explosion In an Ohio
Mine.
Eighteen of a night force Of rs ma
chine men employed in the mine of
the Y~oughiowheny n Ohio Coal
company, near Amsterdam. O., are
thought to be dead as a result of an
explosion in the mine late Thursday
night.
So far six bodies have been recov-
cred. Seven We're taken from the
shaft in an unconscious condition.
Twelve men are missing.
1t Is thought that the explosion was
caused by coal gas being ignited by
the lights on the helmets of the min
ers.