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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-09-23

ON the left size on his heau.
Still he drums with the same cheer
full vigor and seems as interested in
life as any boy. Nebraska grew too
civilized for him eventually. and he
made his way gradually westward un-
til he reached the Pacific. Being un-
able to proceed farther he stopped, dis
concerted, and has since fingered as
near the jumping off place as he could.
Marquis Lafayette Fowler leader of
the Washington fife and drum corps,
is the old drummer boys side partner
His given name betrays the Revolu-
tionary atmosphere that surrounded
his cradle. He had ancestors in the
Revolution and still possesses the coat
of one of them with its bell buttons.
An UNCLE was in the war of 1872 and
knew sharp fighting in and around De-
troit. His older brother was tifer In
the war with Mexico, and Mr.. Fowler
has his fife as well as the one which
he himself played in the civil war and
several silver flies that have been pre-
sented to him ms mark of honor.
He has played the fife for fifty-six
years He played it in campaign meet
ings when Fremont ran for president
at Charlotte, Mich. He went TO the
front with the Twentieth Michigan.
There has never been q year since the
war that he has not had charge of a
fife and drum corps somewhere. He
declares that in an experience of fifty
years West is the best drummer he
ever knew.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-09-23
RAILWAY TRIES GASOLINE CAR
Looks Like Torpedo Boat and Attains
hiuh Speed,

An eastern railroad is about to ex-
pertinent with a gasoline car of
new and freakish type. The car is
now at a Philadelphia yard and soon
will be ready for experiment trips.
The car Is a formidable looking OBJ
ject and the railroad men have dub
bed her the torpedo boat
The car is seventy feet long. ten
feet three inches wide and a little over
twelve feet high II has pointed or
wedge front and is round or torpedo
shaped at the rear There are only
eight wheels on the two trucks. On
each side are two doors. the forward
ones being for the baggage section
and those in the middle for passen-
gers.
One of the features is an entirely
separate smoking compartment con-
tanning seats for sixteen persons. The
rest of the car contains the motor or
engine section for the operator and
the general passenger section. The
seating capacity is seventy five.
On its trip TO Philadelphia the car
made fifty-nine and half miles an
hour at times. Its average rate was
forty-two miles 1t has twelve cylln-
ders capable of producing 200 horse
power The fuel tank holds 10 gal
Ions of gasoline. The engine being on
the forward truck prevents excessive
vibration.
FDl-
is provided through jacket circula-
ton which is warmed by hot water.
Acetylene gas Is the illumiDant used
There are fifteen windows. portfolio In
shape. on each side; also one in each
door and square windows in front.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-09-23
Canadian Territory Is Scene of Many
Grimes Recently.

Hamiota. Man., Sept. 22.-The gang
Of professional burglars which has
been operating in Southern Manitoba
for several weeks turned their atten-
tion to this town and robbed two
stores and blew two large safes with
nitroglycerin and secured $4,000 in
cash. The robberies were not discov-
cred until the stores were opened In
- morning.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-09-23

Bridge 8uilders' "Bends" and Phos-
Phorous Poisoning of Matchmakers
Among Causes of New Point Raised
by Labor-Mew York Commission
Investigates Conditions.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-09-23
DRUM 66 YEARS
old IN PARADE
Atlantic City Hears G. A. R.
Relic LustiIy Beaten.
OWNER TEN YEARS ITS SENIOR
Sounder of Onsets First Played In
Polk Presidential Campaign and
Later Through Civil War-Sanford
West Never Wounded Until Kicked
In Eye by Nebraska Mule.


In Eye by Nebraska Mule.
A drum made sixty-six years ago out
of an ash tree at lockwood, Fulton
county, n. u, was played at the ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic at Atlantic City. 1t
was made by two brothers, ten and
twelve years of age.
The younger of the boys played the
drum through the campaign that elect
ed James X. Polk to the presidency.
Later he played it clear through the
civil war and drummed the Thirteenth
Illinois infantry into every engagement
in which ii participated. Today he is
an inmate of the Soldiers home at
Orting, Wash. The drum went with
him by slow stages across the conti-
nent. and it went back with him to the
Atlantic City encampment
The drummer, Sanford G. West, is
man, blind in one eye and weighing
not much more than 100 pounds, but
he puts the fire and energy of boy
into his drumming.
He can drum standing with his back
to the drum as well as face front. He
is born drummer, crazy for the drum
from the time he wore his first trou-
sers. He drummed at public meetings
before he was eight
One of Pioneer Family.
West comes from one of those old
American families which eternally go
west. His people arrived in New Eng
land some time in colonial days. BY
1884 they had got as far rs lockwood,
n. Y, where they were pioneers.
There Sanford drummed in the Polk
campaign, curling up to sleep on the
mems coats between the speeches.
BY the time Lincoln was running for
president the family had got TO Illinois,
and young Sanford drummed through
that campaign too. The Thirteenth
Illinois infantry was the first that en-
listed for three years. West was new
er out of commission one day of that
three years, nor did he miss one en-
gagement.
His hat was shot off his head at
Lookout Mountain, but not hair of
his head was touched. At the first at
tack on Vicksburg the sharpshooters
aimed at him when he was STOPPING
over and sent two bullets through the
h of 4
scratch him.
1t was his business to drum the boys
into the fight and then help carry the
wounded off the field on stretchers. AT
Ringgold, Ga, they shot through the
leg the man who was handling the
stretcher with him. West carried him
off the field on his back, got another
man and went back for the fellow be-
had left on the stretcher. He seemed
to bear a charmed life.
BY the time the war was over Illi-
nois had grown too tame and civilized
for the West blood. West moved to
Nebraska and made his home there for
the most of his life. 1t was while
ranching in Nebraska that he met the
wound that was due him in the war.
Wounded by Mule.
A Nebraska mule did what the Con-
federate sharpshooters were never able
to do. The creature kicked him on
the head in II way 70 blind one eye
for life. Twcnty-eight pieces OF his
skull were removed from the wound,
and a perIna2c..t i.ldanfation was made
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-09-23
Recent Raids Are AsCribed to
Gar Ferdinand.
TURKEY MAY TAKE ACTION.
Ruler Said to Be Industrious In Work
of His Country's Advancement,
Though Credited With Too Much
High Living In Vienna and Paris by
His Hardworking Subjects.

"King of the Comitadjis" is title
that the wits of eastern Europe have
long jocosely applied to Ferdinand,
czar of the Bulgars. The Comitadjis
by tribute levied on villages they raid.
Macedonia has of late been their
chosen field for depreciation.
Coincident with rumors that Ferdi-
nand is planning to occupy that prov
ince on the ground that it is in a state
of chronic disturbance, now come
charges that the Comitadjis are real
ly protected by the government, that
the raids into Macedonia are designed
to give Ferdinand pretext for planting
his own rule there in place of that of
Turkey and that the title devised by
the wits is not a facetious misnomer,
but a true definition.
Ferdinand Outfits Raiders.
These charges have been printed in
several newspapers of known relia-
bility, who promise to back them up
with proofs. 1t is alleged that the gov
ernment has been arming these bands
of raiders. Specifications in support
of that count of the indictment are
also promised The government denies
the charges and affects to make light
of them, but they have made a pro-
found political sensation and are gen
orally believed by the people.
hn
publications disclose the unpopularity
Of Ferdinand with his subjects. There
have long been murmurs of discomfort
over his fashion of dispensing with
parliament most of the time in order
that his own sway may be unchecked.
Many think he spends money too free
ly in Paris nd Vienna while the mass
es have hard work to make both ends
meet.
Gar Is Industrious.
The truth is that the czar is ex-
tremely industrious and most ambi-
tious for the betterment of his people,
but the ma iority could not be so con-
vinced in their present temper toward
him
Should Turkey take a notion to de-
clare war on these charges of inter-
ference any possible question as to ul-
innate rule i'm Macedonia would be set
tied quickly. Even without war Fer
dinand seems i'm the way of being
made to look foolish in the eyes of
Europe If other governments give cred
1t to the charges.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-09-23
Lead Poisoning Dangerous.

The problem of fixing standards is
much more difficult in those employ
ments where no satisfactory substi-
tutes for industrial poisons have been
found. This is notably true with re-
spect to workers in lead In 1909
thirty-three deaths were reported in
New York alone as due to lead poison
ing. But the number of deaths re-
ported is nc sufficient criterion for
judgment concerning the seriousness
of an occupational disease. Chronic
poisoning, which lowers vitality and
causes untold suffering. is much more
serious.
At time when compensation for in
juries received in employments is the
most pressing problem for labor legis-
lation, the question of occupational
diseases is also demanding considera-
ton. England in fourteen years ex
perience with her compensation act
has recognized the principle of COM
pensation for industrial diseases. 1t
Is established in several European
countries that workman is entitled
10 compensation If he Is incapacitated
by a disease contracted in his trade
and due to his employment exactly in
the same way as If he had been dis
abled by an accident
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-10-12
VIC. I. u. IN
SESSION

Afdmore, Okla Oct 2 The state
Women's Christian Temperance union
convention opened here yesterday with
the largest number or delegates that
has ever attended convention since
statehood Ninety local unions have
reported, showing a membership Of p
245 and collections for the year ag-
gregating $4,000, Muskogee contrib
uted more money than any other city
IN the state,
Only one-half Of the unions reported
on the first day
State President Mrs, Cora B. Ham
meA Of Oklahoma City delivered her
annual address. Each member was
given copy in pamphlet form and
the ccnt qnsion veta2 30 use the at-
dress for campaign purposes for the
election to be held III November,
State Organizers Mrs. Hillerman and
Mrs. shepIar gave encouraging re-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-10-12
PORTUGAL
TRANQUIL
Normal Conditions are
Resumed Casualty
List Reduced


Lisbon Oct. Although the city
remains under martial law pending a
reorganization Of the administration,
the soldiers have been gradually with
drawn from the streets The people
have resumed their occupations and
perfect tranquility prevails. Several
churches were re.opened this morn
ing.
Guards have been supplied to those
establishments Of the religious orders
which are still occupied and flying for.
eign flags, to prevent possible attack
The papal nuncio, Mgr Tonti has
hoisted the Austrian nag over his resi-
dence at Cintra but there was no
sign today Of hostile demonstrations
The government has announced that
the Irish Dominican fathers and nuns,
who have conducted a school here for
many years, will be exempted from
the order OF expulsion. This step
doubtless is due to the desire Of the
republicans to keep on good terms with
Great Britain II Is said Foreign Min
lister AIachado has requested Great
Britain to grant immediate recognition
to the new regime, ostensibly SO that
il win be in a position to communicate
its full program to the British gov
.ernment.
The casualty list from the recent
lighting falls below the most moderate
Of previous estimates. The official es-
innate gives the number killed as be-
tween 100 and l50. Unofficial esti-
mates place the number still lower
One Of the plans attributed to the
organizers OF the revolution was to
bring off the coup d'etat October 8,
when King Manuel was visiting the
premier in the northernmost province
Of the kingdom. II was arranged that
the train bearing the king should con
tinue through to the frontier and the
soldiers there We're to prevent the king
from re-entering Portugal. In the
meantime, the ministers, who would
have assembled IN body at the sta
tion in Lisbon to see the king of,
were to be surrounded and arrested
after the departure of the train The
republic was then to be proclaimed
The provisional government has
taken possession Of the houses Of sew
eral religious bodies. No opposition
was met The contents were iLten-
toried and the houses sealed.
1t has been decided to issue de-
cree enforcing compulsory military
service.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-10-12

ports, which showed large percent
age. gain in Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union membership during the
past year.
George Rough Of Guthrie, candidate
for governor on the prohibition ticket
Is attending the convention. In a five
minute talk he did not refer 70 the pro
posed local option amendment to the
constitution, nor to his candidacy fol
governor. His talk was devoted to his
experience in promoting the organiza.
tor. Every other speaker who occu-
nied the floor referred to the pro.
posed amendment, and predicted that
the state would 80 overwhelmingly dry
in November
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-10-12
NEWS FROM
NATIONAL
CAPITAL
Some Inside Facts on
the Sugar Fraud
Cases
(By Clyde ii. Tavenner)

Washington, Oct. 12.-Now comes
the remarkable announcement that the
president has pardoned Edward A,
Boyle, John r. coyle Patrick J. Hen
nessey and Thomas Kehoe, four for
mer government employees who were
serving sentences in New York for
connection with the s2,0oo,00O sugar
trust frauds.
This action has raised in the minds
of many the following query Did the
fact that these men hoped for early
pardons deter them from fully expos
ing the men higher up?
By placing steel springs in seven
teen pairs OF scales, the trust robbed
the government Ut more than $1,000
900, and after being exposed admitted
the crime BY returning the plunder-
The secretary and few minor EN-
ployes were Sent 10 prison and four
OF them have now been pardoned. The
multi-millionaire sugar barons into
whose pockets the $2.o00,oO0 would
have gone had not the cheat been dis
covered have 50 far gone scot free.
Democrats and progressive republi-
cans sought in the last congress to
bring about a congressional investiga-
tion Of this fraud, believing it ridiculous
for the administration TO assume that a
few SIS a week sugar weighers would
steal $2,0O0.O0O for someone else and
lay themselves liable to penitentiary
sentences, unless they had been
bribed BY the men or agents Of the
men who would secure the proceeds
Of The fraud
President Taft himself prevented the
congressional investigation by recon.
needing against it in his annual mes
sage to congress. He took the view
that probe might give immunity TO
the men higher up"
Representative Henry r. Rainey OF
Illinois led the fight for the probe Of
the swindle, contending that instead
OF assuring immunity for the big
thieves, an investigation would only
bring out their identity
It developed that the president rec
ommended against Investigation upon
the advice of United States Attorney
General George g WIckersham. Mr.
Wlckersham was particularly qualified
to give the president advice in mat
ters pertaining to the sugar trust at
the time Of his appointment to the Of
fee Of attorney general--a position
which places him in absolute charge
OF the prosecutions Of trnsts-he was
a sugar trust attorney
Air. Wickersham and Henry W.
Taft. brother OF President Taft. We're
members Of the firm Of Strang & Cad
wallader OF New York. For services
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-10-12

rendered the sugar trust Attorney Hen
ry w. Taft received $26,750, which he
turned over TO Strong g. Cadwallader,
and the last thing Mr.. Wickersham did
before starting In to represent the peo-
pie was to draw down and pocket his
share Of the sugar trust fee.
Nine resolutions providing for an
investigation OF the sugar trust were
introduced IN the last session OF con-
gress. But the sugar trust happens to
be a friend and ally (also star cam
paign fund contributor) OF the repub-
lican party, and therefore IT is need
less to record that each Of the reso-
lutions were smothered to death In
committee.
Wastefuness Of Protection.
The wastefulness Of taxes collected
from tie people under the tarin laws
is not one Of the least vicious features
Of protection.
American customs duties have peces-
STATED a gigantic army OF officials,
have increased the price Of everything
and have added enormously 70 the ex-
penses of the government.
The country is divided INTO 100 dis
tricts and ports for the collection Of
duties. or these the expenses in forty
are greater than the receipts, the cost
OF collection ranging, for every dollar
collected, from $l.5S 10 $S09.4l.
In the Alexandria Va, district. the
government spent sl,224 to collect
$40.
In the Annapolis, Md, district It cost
$95e to collect $3.O9
In the ST. NIary's Ca, district it
cost $693 to collect sl5.25
In the Coos Bay, Ore, district Il cost
s1,464 to collect 1891
And this years report Of the secre.
tary OF the treasury is not as bad as
last years which showed that IN one
instance the government had paid two
men $li0O to collect 60 cents.
The President Is Slightly in Error.
In his speech at the republican ma.
tional league dinner in New York,
President TAFT said: eOur democratic
friends are saying that il the demo
cratic party came into power II would
reduce The expenses Of this govern
ment s30O,000O00.
itwould seem that Mr. Taft's quarrel
Is rightly, not with the democrats, but
with Nelson w Aldrich the republi-
can chairman Of the finance commit
tee Of the republican senate, Il was
Senator Aldrich who stated on the
floor Of the senate that business man
could run the government s300,00O,000
cheaper than it is now being run
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-10-12
DEMOCRATIC MANAGER
INTERESTING PERSON

oklahoma City Oct l2.--"say moth
ing. Let the other fellow do all the
talking. Whenever he says he's going
10 do anything Or announces where
his strength lies, just cut right in and
go for the strong point until You beat
it down. Don't give your opponent a
chance to attack you in the same way.
The nomination was won for cruce,
the man from Ardmore BY this
method
Therein Is the political creed Of
John r. Williams Of Hobart, chairman
o. the democratic state campaign com
mittee, who successfully managed the
primary campaign for the man from
Ardmoreg TO the political thinker
il represents the acme OF political sue
cess; to the average man it represents
the highest creed for the manipulation
Of any Iins OF endeayor toward the
goal Of success.
John Williams has been practicing
this creed for more than twenty
years He learned it in Texas. Of
which state he is native, and prac-
ticed it valliantly in the historic Kill
gore congressional campaign. On the
broad acres of the cattle ranch When
the western country was young and
the revolutionary tendencies of the
times foreboded the entrance Of new
civilization, he practiced it among
cow punchers as a ranch boss and as
ranch owner, and it won for him
both friend and temporary zoe the
loftiest Of enconiums.
Master Of the art political Williams
occupies in Oklahoma today a position
Of high political honor and Of high
political trust. He believes in the sa-
credness Of the principles Of the demo-
cratic party and places honor, alert
ness and loyal activity above the sor-
did mentalities Of the muck ralxer the
character assassin and the political
miscreant whose ambition is to be-
come a boss ana a leader OF the host
that is pushing him forward toward the
oonrfo,. ,p o.cxvat4 ~, ~ toT t,tn
Once his mind is fixed on a proposi-
tion the chances are ten to one that
he is right He is 4 close student Of
affairs, close observer Of the actions
Of men, and the analysis that he EN-
ploys in arriving at a judgment sell
dom has missed the mark. This does
not signify, however, that he even ap-
proaches the position Of an egotist, for
he Is one of the most tactful Of listen
ers. He courts the ideas and sugges-
tions Of his friends and co-laborers
and'is a cordial, congenial companion.
in the precincts Of his headquarters, in
the loby. at the club or on she street.
Cold-bloodedness as an art has been
developed in Williams to the masters
degree. To his most intimate friend
he can say no with the finest courage
and most cordial spirit imaginable.
The whole scheme OF politics with him
IS like the scheme Of business. An ad.
dicker in horse trade,
barring the rules Of unscrupulous jock
syism, is made with the same precise
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-10-12
GREAT EDUCATIONAL TRIP
TO TENAG GULF COAST AND
DALLAS FAIR, STARTING OCT. 10.

Our regular private hotel car ex-
corsion viii run 70 our new tract Of
$4,000 acres Of fruit. truck and general
farm land at Winnie. Tex We Visit
IT. Worth, Houston, Galveston and re-
turning stop at Dallas for tae big fair.
Special cheap rates including berth
and board for this trip.
See J. p. Nail, phone Iis. llss
South Third. l2-iOt