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The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1910-11-03

ing, they could get about three
hours sleep, and then when they
found the case postponed from
hour to hour and from day to day
and finally get back in four or five
days, they find they have about
$11.40 coming to them and it has
cost them about $40 each, in time
and actual expense. But when the
farmer who lives 40 miles north of
Philip is called upon to 90 he must
add his time and expense of get
ting to and from the railroad to
the expense | have already men
toned of the man who lives in
Philip or anywhere along the line.
During the season a score or
more of our citizens have been
called to Fort Pierre on the O. O'Hara
case three times. They are down
there now, have been there all
week and at this writing. Oct. 2S.
the case has not been called.
Every one of them have put up the
cash for their own expenses and
not dollar that | can learn of has
been paid them yet in fees or ex-
penses. Oh yes, you could de-
mand your witness fees of the
sheriff or refuse to go, but sup
pose you did, he could hand you
one days fees, which l think is a
dollar and a half, and then you
would be compelled to 90 and put
up the other thirty eight dollars
and fifty cents yourself whether
you had it or not. Oh, | tell you
my friends, this is delightful and
those who try to keep you under
such a condition are not your
friends but your enemies who are
trying to force these conditions
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1910-11-03
THE LAST CALL
Will You Have Your County
Seat Nearer Home or Two
More Years of Useless
Expense

Before another issue of this pa
per is printed you will be called
upon to cast your ballot for or
against county division. l say for
or against county division because
all that the leaders of the Sterling
and jackson county propositions
hope to do is to defeat county d.
vision entirely at this time for
they know that neither Sterling or
Jackson can possibly win. There
are not over 400 voters living in
both of these proposed counties
and if every one of them went to
the polls and voted for their own
counties they would still be over
600 votes short. Do they think
they will get all Of their own yot-
ers? Lay this away for reference
after election and then call me a
fool if they get 900 votes out of
both their own territories. Some
of their literature has been pretty
good argument for division, but
most of it has been the usual weap-
on of the would be politicians who
have no argument to offer except
a little mud singing which never
did any harm except to soil the
sincerity and manliness of the par
ties who threw the mud. | refer to
a little red-lettered sheet bearing
the stamp of the Milesville Citizen
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1910-11-03

Stock will never be driven over
land again to Fort Pierre, SO long
as it can be gotten to a railroad,
and if the county should go back
there will always be some kind of
town, at least a railroad station
at Philip and most of the other
towns along the line, so | can
safely say conditions will never
90 back to what they were. Can
Iowa county winl Most assuredly
it can. Iowa county had 272O votes
for governor in 1908. 1t had to
have 1861 signatures to our petit
tion for division and we had 90 to
spare. We only need 44O more
than this to win out on division,
while either jackson or Sterling
must have over 1900 votes above
what they had for petitioners, be-
fore they can hope to win. So
let us be reasonable once and vote
for something that has some show
to win, and instead of using $780,
600 more in 1911 than we did in
1908 for useless mileage, fees and
other nonsense, let us get that
money to work out here at home
where it will do us some good, let
us take at least $4,000 a year to
make some passable roads to the
railroad that we all have to use till
we get more. and spend the other
$4,000 for good government where
we need it. Vote for Iowa county
and we get division, vote for any
thing else and we get just what we
have been getting in the past. :.
f. l.. Keith.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1910-11-03

upon you for some selfish reasons
that are hard to understand. But
why argue division any more!
All our Sterling and jackson
county leaders are arguing divi-
sion and are falling over each
other.-to to show you why it is neces.
sary for economy, convenience and
so forth. but they say don't let
Philip have it all, lets all have Il
county. it will be cheaper and u
good many argue. vote for Jack
son and Sterling counties. who
were hollering their heads off for
no division at all, a month or two
ago. Why! Simply because they
don't want division at all, and they
know this would defeat it. If
they are in earnest about either
jackson or Sterling counties they
are working on the principle that
if a table spoonful of castor oil is
good medicine they had better take
a quart while they are at it.
To the man who says it is yet too
soon to divide, let me say condi-
tions are very different from what
they were even five years ago.
Then, all that was produced in
Stanley county had to go to Fort
Pierre to get to a railroad and to
market, today this is changed. In
word figurately speaking, Fort
Pierre has moved west, and in one
respect at least, they will never 90
back no matter how dry it gets or
whether the country goes back to
cattle and sheep entirely or wheth-
er it develops into a rich agricul-
al country, as we hope it will.
One thing is sure and that is the
p. r. G. and N. w. is here to stay.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1910-11-03

entitled Who pays the Freightl''
This is an Eloquent! Appeal to
poor farmers who pays all the tax
es, and gross insinuation that all
the taxes he pays goes to the bene-
fit of few scheming wretches
along Bad River whose dens of
iniquity are principally located in
Philip. | believe the Sterling coun-
ty farmers and also great many
of the jackson county farmers who
have been compelled to haul near
ly everything they have used for
the past four years from Bad Riv-
er because that illustrious and we'll
named stream has the misfortune
of having railroad extending
along its entire course throu Oh
Stanley county would be glad if a
small portion of the taxes that are
paid in could be used on the roads
leading out into the territory both
north and south of the fore said
Bad River. Yes the farmer pays
the freight we admit that. How
much more would it cosl you Mr..
Farmer of the north if we could
use say $4,000 of your taxes to i'm
prove the roads you now haul your
freight over? If you could haul
800 lbs. on each load more then
you are now hauling from Bad
River with the same power you
are now using the saving would
mean more than the cost of a new
court house, a new set of officers,
new fixtures, transcribing the rec
ords and everything else connected
with county division would mean
to you in ten years and you know
it if you will only set down and
figure it ont for yourself. 1t is the
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1910-11-03

Will X. Walpole will buy your
cattle. If you want to sell, see
him. 3Otf
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-02
DISEASES BROUGHT
FROM OTHER CITIES
North Yakima Has in Quarantine
. Four Cases Which Had Their
Origin in Other Parts.

North Yakima is threatened with
diseases which are brought here by
newly arrived residents from other
sections. There are in quarantine now
case of scarletina which was
brought from Indianapolis, another
case brought from Massachusetts, and
third from Seattle. There is also
case of smallpox which was brought
here from Mabton. City Health
officer Nywening says that he does
not fear a spread of the smallpox
through the city though under the
conditions which have surrounded all
the cases 1t is altogether possible for
the diseases to have been communi-
Gated to others. He does not fear an
outbreak of smallpox, however. such
as took place two summers age when
the disease was present in North
Yakima and vicinity from early sum-
mer until well along towards the end
of the winter.
County Health Officer Frank says
there is no smallpox at Mabton that
he knows of though there are some
serious cases of chicken pox. The
case in quarantine here now, and
which was brought from Mabton, is
according to DR.. Nywenning a genu-
inc case of smallpox. 1t is being
closely watched.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-02
GOVERNOR HAS
DISAPPOINTED
Ladies of the w. c. T. u. of the
State, According to Eastern
- Washington President.
THEIR HOPE AT PRESENT
HE MAY BE CONVERTED
Mrs. Anna Angler, Speaking in
j North Yakima, Urges the Local
4. Members to Take Part in Tag
. Day for Prohibition Rally.

Governor M. e. Hay has proved a
great disappointment to the w. C T.
y. When, during the local option
fight at Cheney, he came out with
the statement that with a normal
school in the place. liquor should not
be sold. they thought they had found
in him a champion. When, however
he went over to Davenport few DAVIS
later and said that the people
weren't yet educated up to no license.
their hopes fell and when he went
still farther to advocate the present
Nebraska system, there was nothing
left for them but to hope that he
might be converted.
MS. Anna Angler of Spokane, state
president for eastern Washington ex-
pressed this opinion of the governor
at a meeting of the Frances Willard
w. C. T. U. yesterday.
IF Nebraska had lived up to her
high license law" she continued,
there would be no saloons left in
that state today. They would all be
closed up through lack of business.
There is no sense in saying that pro-
hibition hurts business. Prohibition is
a money-making proposition. If peo-
pie conducted their private business
as they want to conduct the state
there would be plenty of bankrupts"
Prohibition Rally.
A hig w. c. T. U. tag day the coun-
try over Is suggested for March 10,
which is prohibition rally day, byt the
national association. Mrs Angler
urged North Yakima to take it up,
inasmuch as tag day is a novelty here.
The idea Is to divide the funds equally
between the local, the state and the
national organizations. the latter to
use it towards establishing it's own
printing headquarters at Evanston.
Illinois.
Mrs. Angler Ia making a tour Of the
unions Of her part of the state with a
view to getting into close touch with
them and explaining the work Of the
different departments. She stopped
at Cheney and Ritzville and was to
have organized union at Mabton,
but owing to sickness there. did not
stop at the latter point. With Mrs.
Mary Roberts of North Yakima, who
IS state corresponding secretary, she
expects to go to Ellensburg Thursday
and will return to Spokane next week
IN time for a meeting of the state ex-
ecutive board.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-02
WHEN is A WOMAN AN OLD
--.,--.--,,, MAID2

A woman's club recently discussed
the question: Is an unmarried
woman AN old maid at l2s? We are
astonished that the time of the club
should Sbe taken up with such friv-
olous inquiry when SO many more i'm
portant subjects await settlement. We
are glad to read, however, that the
speaker of the day repealed the in-
sinuation, - -
At the age mentioned woman Is
Just beginning her most glorious
period, a Her emergence from the So
cial cocoon has given her an expert
enca which has developed her physi-
cal and mental charms and made her
in every way more attractive then
she ever was before. In fact, psy-
biologists, particularly novelists and
dramatists, are agreed that between
the ages Of 81 and IS woman Is
most attractive and most dangerous.
Every man from IS to % falls in
love with woman who Is somewhere
between ~ and IS years old. He may
not marry her. Probably he does
not, but she exercises over him a fas-
cination which has a formative inffu-
ence all the rest of his life.
Such a woman Is not an old maid,
however. That stage of woman's
career begins after SIS, sometimes
long after. A boy, asked how old his
sister was, replied that he did not
know, but that tea comforted her."
This is the infallible test. When a
woman confesses tea has that effect
upon her she is certainly over 35 and
is without doubt an old maid.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-02
WON $500 WITH
BABY HE BORROWED
Waiter in New York Cafe Pulls
of Profitable Trick on
MANAGEMENT.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1t want to
go home quick, my wife has pre-
sented me with a fine boy" said a
waiter in the Cafe Martin last Sat-
urday to the head waiter.
1t is the rule at the Cafe Martin
that when a son is born in the family
of an employe 500 is given to the
fother, and $50 for girl. With his
face wreathed in smiles, the waiter
returned to the restaurant carrying
big baby boy today.
Wine was opened and glasses filled
Then while Louis Martin held tde
baby his brother John rose, and lift
ing the glass spoke solemn truths on
the honor and responsibility of being
the father of such a. magnificent boy
and gave the waiter a 500 bill. The
toast was drunk. The waiter and the
lab. departed.
They had been gone only a few
minutes when a little French woman
excitediy entered.
Where is that waiter?" she de-
manded.
HE has gone" was the reply.
"He said he only wanted to borrow
NY 4-months old baby for a few
minutes, and he has been gone for
an hour and a half. Oh, where is
my baby?'
She said the waiter had hoard ed
with her week and had oo.' owed
the baby to show a friend.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-02
THE LAW AND THE BANKER.

The other day a rich man went to
the penitentiary to serve a IS year
sentence. His crime had been COM
mitted more than two years before.
Able lawyers had exhausted every
appeal and delay Friends of wealth
and influence had exerted themselves
to save him. But he could not es-
cape. In spite of his money and con-
nection he was essentially as help
less in the grip of the law as the
merest pickpocket. Before entering
the penitentiary he denounced his
sentence as 'inhuman" and mon
strous."
He might well have said that it
was somewhat novel His crime was
wrecking a bank; but the depositors
were paid in full; and he doubtless
felt that it should have been regard
ed as merely one of those inadverten-
cies to which high finance is liable. 1t
was distinctly a social crime. Its
wrong lay in destroying confidence.
unsettling business, checking pros
perity. And the notion of Furnishing
rich mems crimes of that order is
really rather new. A dozen years
ago, depositors having been paid in
full, probably he would not have been
prosecuted. Bank wrecking, of
course, is peculiarly a crime against
wealth itself, as well as against So
ciety. Possibly that accounts for the
rigor with which the law is applied to
that crime.-Saturday Evening Post
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-02
GROUNDING IS
DECLARED A LIAR
Pittsburg Weather Man Says That
Forecasts of the Animal Are
Not Truthful.

PITTSBURG. Feb. 1.-The ground
hog has gone wrong for three sue
cessive years in Pttsburg, and Henry
Pennywltt, official weather forecaster,
for this district, warns the people to
ignore the creature when he energies
ON his hole next Wednesday. In
1907 and 1903 the ground hogs
shadow was plainly visible yet the
weather was mild for the next six
weeks, in refutation of tradition, and
in 1908, when ground hog day was
as black as night six weeks of heavy
snow and flood followed.
incidentally Pittsburg is bit
anxious since the Paris food. There
are three rivers threatening. Pitts
burg, while Paris has but one. The
weather bureau reports that the
snowfall for the last month has been
% in; inches is the largest in any
similar period for 16 years The
guesses that the abundance of comets
or general wear and tear on the sun
might have anything to do with the
phenomenal weather this year were
met at the local weather bureau with
the statement that records af Kew
observatory in London for the last
l25 years showed that the tempera-
ture has not varied as a whole one
eighth of degree.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-02
AGAIN THE CRIMINAL LAW.

In country where it is extremely
difficult to convict a lawbreaker of
wealth and influence it stands that
an innocent man possessing such ad-
vantages should have no fear of the
verdict Of jury. The United States
is that kind of a country, yet it is
matter Of record that all indicted
American millionaires, no matter how
loudly they proclaim their innocence,
invariably resort to legal technicali-
ties in an effort to save themselves
from trial.
F. Augustus Heinze, copper mag
nate, furnishes the latest case in
point. Indicted for manipulating
bank funds, he declares himself
wrongfully accused, but does he take
the obvious course Of an innocent mil
lionaire and demand an immediate
trial? OF course not. He heaps OBJ
stacles in the way of the prosecution
and is not disturbed by the possibility
Of a final disposition of his case,
which would fringe his mantle of in
nocence with shreds of suspicion. He
attacked the second indictm ent
against him on the ground that an
outsider, to wit. an expert account
ant, was present at the time that a
Federal Grand jury saw fit to indict
him. This objection brought about
the quashing of the indictment. and
the innocent Mr.. Heinze now has high
hopes of triumphing over his "perse-
cutors.' The government promises
other indictments, but Mr. Heinze will
he ready with other technicalities In
fact he seems to have everything in
stock save proofs of innocence. And
stlll there are persons who believe
that the criminal laws are in no need
of reformation.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-02

states that a great light comes to
men whose ideas of the rights Of a
sovereign state have heretofore never
ris~n beyond the mental processes re-
qctred to figure out a division of pa
tronage.
AS matter of fact, no citizen who
honestly believes in the Roosevelt
conservation policy would object II the
problem that now confronts the peo-
pie were solved by the states, but
there is no prospect of relief coming
from that quarter. IL the states had
done their duty the water power mo-
NJ polists would not now be national
menace and there would be no need
of action by the federal government.
1t is a notorious fact that the states
ave neglected their duty. For
years they have either encouraged
the power of monopolists by legisla-
ton or left them free to work their
will, and even today there are many
states where predatory wealth is SO
strongly intrenched that bills provid-
ing for state conservation would be
rejected by a machine-controlled leg
islature. That is why the converts
are so clamorous for states rights
They know that many states would
do nothing, and that unless all the
states enacted and enforced a law
that would leave the monopolists no
rallying point state conservation
would be a joke.
So long as there remains one state
which legislates for selfish interests
instead Of for the general good, jest
so long will the people continue to-day
their troubles before the federal gov
eminent. Capitalization is better
| than exploitation.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-02
~ THE BIBLE STUDY CLUB ~

private prayers which consist only OF
reading, or reciting, set prayers, and
in repeating form of words?
Verse s--As GOD CERTAINLY
KNOWS WHAT THINGS WE HAVE
NEED OF BEFORE WE ASK HIM,
WHAT rs THE USE IN PRAYING
FOR THEM? (This question must
be answered in writing by members
of the club.)
Verse Did Jesus give the Lords
Prayer" as a form to be used, or a.
a model for comprehensiveness and
brevity, or for both, or for some
other reason? .ttp IS
What was the chief thing in the life
and personal testimony of jesus
which also should and may be the
chief thing in the life of every manf
Verse 10--What should we long
and pray for more than for all else?
What would turn earth and i1
sorrows into heaven with all its bies-
sedness? Y@i ~
Verse 11.--Have Christians a right
to expect that God will supply all the
necessaries of life, and does he al
ways do so? q
. Is God under obligation to supply
us with daily bread?
Verse 12.-On what grounds does
God forgive us our sins?
Does Jesus mean here that God
will forgive us exactly rs we forgive
others, or is there difference?
Verse 13---In what way does God
lead us into temptation?
Verses IA, 15.-If we forgive our
fellows, is God under obligation to
forgive us?
Lesson for Sunday, Feb. 18th, 1910.
Worldliness and Trust. Matt g.:
/ o.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-02
PROTESTS AGAINST ANNEXATION

City annexation is again under dis
cussion. If our representation in the
city would be as ctrong as the present
Misrepresentation by the fathers of
the idea, there might be some argu-
ment in favor of annexation. 1t must
be good business proposition for the
city or the council would turn it
down. Perhaps the council knows as
little about this as they did few
days ago about the citys bonded in
debtedness.
Is it a good business proposition
for the suburbs? What the city gets
is too evident for discussion. Ac-
co ding to county and city officials
annexation would increase our taxes
from about three to over six mills. In
other words our taxes would be
doubled. Or if this is not definite
enough for the unthinking, our taxes
will be increased approximately $1.00
for every 10000 Of actual valuation.
What does the city propose to give
US for this exorbitant tribute? We do
not need police protection. If we did
need it, what would we get and when,
eighteen blocks from headquarters?
Before seeking new worlds to con-
quer let the police clean up the Ian
guage of the "setters' between Front
street and the railway so that 1t will
be respectable place for lady to
pass, enforce the antflspitting ordin-
ance, ETC.. ,-.,tSt taYs5te ..~s
We can have sidewalks and cross
walks as soon as wet will pay for
them. How much sooner would we
get them sif in the scity ?sfWe have
electric lights and gas as we'll as good
mail delivery. We Nave city water
that experts have twice. said was to-
tally unfit for household purposes
Associated. with this yves sometimes
have fever. will the city improve
these conditions? II 80, physician
heal myself The water mains are
not large enough for fire protection
If this would be changed under the
new conditions, why'dafe not similar
conditions corrected within the city
limits? ." fN''' - 49,
Insurance is writer, in, Victoria ad.
dition today as cheaply as in the City
of North Yakima. Sewers would b.
an advantage, but our prospect:
would be dim until the present cor.
poration is supplied.
Here is the only logical argument
I have yet found for annexation tc
the city: I would then have an op.
portunity to vote for dry town. Mus
the fathers Of this community increase
their tribute to life (their taxes) one
hundred per cent for the privilege Of
voting decency into their neighbor
hood and to save their children from
the vile influences of the saloon?
E. NJ CHURCHILL,
Victoria Addition
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-02
Why does Great Britain buy
its oatmeal of us?

Certainly it seems like carrying
Goals to Newcastle to speak of export
ing oatmeal to Scotland and yet, every
year the Quaker Oats Company sends
hundreds of thousands of cases of
Quaker Oats to Great Britain and
Europe.
The reason il simple; while the
English and Scotch have for centuries
eaten oatmeal in quantities and with
regularity that has made them the
most rugged physically, and active
mentally Of all people, the American
has been eating oatmeal and trying all
the time to improve the methods of
manufacture so that he might get that
desirable foreign trade.
How well he has succeeded would
be seen at glance at the export re-
ports on Quaker Oats. This brand il
recognized as without rival in clean
illness and delicious favor. 81