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The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
. WOMAN IN
CONGRESS!
PLAN TO ELECT MRS. SARAH
DECKER, OF DENVER, TWO
YEARS HENCE.
SUFfRAGtTTES LATEST PROJECT
Conservation of the Nations Children
Would Be Hobby.-Threatened
Invasion Has No Terrors for
Uncle Joe Cannon.

Denver, Colo.-The women of Col
orado are to make a stubborn effort to
send m of their sex to congress two
years hence. Such was the announce
ment made to the visiting delegates
from the International Council of Wo-
men by one who spoke for the wom-
ems association in the state.
"Of course, it is difficult to tell
whether W. will be successful in our
efforts or not" said Mrs. Harriet
Wright, former member of the state
legislature, but we are looking for
ward to landing a woman in the halls
of congress, and we certainly are 60
ing to make a determined trial
Lady McMillans, who talked suffrage
to the house of lords for four hours
and then stopped only because they
ordered her to, brought out the state
ment. She put this question to the
Denver women who were entertaining
her: when are you women going to
send a woman to congress?"
The reply was quick and decisive.
In two years"
Candidate Is Selected.
All are agreed that Mrs. Sarah Plat
Decker is to be the candidate.
Mrs. Decker herself says she has new
er considered the matter seriously ow-
ing to her belief that there is a federal
statute or constitutional provision that
women cannot be members of either
house or congress.
She believes, however, that they
should be entitled to seats in the ma
TONS legislature, and is confident that
their presence there would be benefi-
cial to the people.
One of her chief hobbies is a drastic
anti-child labor law, and she says she.
has | come almost hopeless of secur-
ing its passage by men, either in state
legislatures or in congress. She thinks
If women could get into these legisla-
tive bodies they would quickly pass
laws to conserve the nations children,
which she deems of far greater i'm
portance than the conservation of ma
tural resources.
ice Cannon Not Worried.
Washington, July 26-Congress is
"all het up" at the prospect of a wo-
man member from Colorado. Speak.
err Cannon alone is undisturbed.
Whether we have to cross on a
bridge in a buggy, an automobile or
afoot, or whether we have to swim or
to get over in an aeroplane, is unim-
portant, and we needn't worry, be-
cause we don't have TO cross the
stream until we come to It,"
Thus the speaker dismisses all
thought of the coming to congress of
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, Of Denver,
the suifragettes' choice for election to
the house two years hence.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
NAUGHTY DANCES ARE TABOOED
ARREST OF GERTRUDE HOFFMAN
BEGINS CRUSADE.
Charge in Her Case Hinges Upon De-
finition of What Constitutes
flights"

New York, N. EVERY now and
then New York city has a spasm of
virtue and inaugurates a campaign
against questionable theatrical produc-
lions.
A new crusade Is started, the first
by the police head, Commissioner Bak-
eT.
The arrest of Gertrude Hoffman, the
Salome dancer, Friday night was the
apparent official beginning of the
movement. When she was arraigned
in court, charged with giving perform
ances Offensive to public d~ecency,"
it became known that the order for
arrest came from the head of the po-
lice department. Her case was ad-
journed until next Tuesday.
Other arrests are to be made, says
the commissioner, unless certain per-
formances, particularly the dances,
now being given in the city, are de-
cidedly reformed.
Il am going to take drastic action"
said the commissioner yesterday, land
owners, lesses and managers must
obey the law"
Mr.. Baker said that he did not order
Miss Hoffman's arrest until after he
had sent six persons to see her dance.
All reports agreed, he said, that the
exhibition was improper. Then he
saw the performance himself and
thought so, too.
Court developments yesterday show
ed that the charge in the Hoffman
case hinges upon the definition of
of tights"
Il will let the show go on" said Po-
lice Magistrate Steiner, provided the
young woman wears tights"
Miss Hoffman protested that she did
wear tights, but their knee length was
what caused public criticism.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
TwENTY-oNE TO BRING A SUIT.
Disappointed Stockholders of OIL Com.
pany Would Recoup Losses.

Wausau.-A lengthy petition for
a writ of attachment was filed in
circuit court to prevent R. E. Powers
and Joseph Coates of this city from
disposing of their property. The COM
plainants are twenty-one stockholders
of the Wausau Gas & Oil Company, of
which the defendants are officers.
This step is preliminary to an action
to be started within twenty days
against the defendants for the recov-
cry of several thousand dollars invest
ed in speculation in oil wells in Okla
homa. Before the organization of the
company Mr.. Powers, who acted as
agent of the company after it was
formed, leased a tract of land in Ok
lahoma Of about 5000 acres.
After the company was organized he
sold the land to the stockholders for
considerable more than he paid for
it. The wells bored failed to produce
oil. Suit will be brought to recover
the difference of the buying and sell
ing price, on the ground that Powers
had no right to make such a deal as
agent of the company.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
AS TOLD IN A LINE
A BOILING DOWN OF THE NEWS
OF THE DAY.
MENTIONED IN SMALL SPACE
The Busy Reader Can Absorb In a
Few Moments a Good Deal OF
Information.
foreiQn.

StCiAlH
SAa Spanish cabinet has accorded
@ free hand TO the minister in forcing
Mellila TO meet the serious situation
there. A brigade Of infantry at Ssyllle
has been modified, and will be sent
forward as speedily as possible.
King Alfonso and Premier Maura
are returning to the capital from San
Sebastian, in connection with the
sending Of reinfOrcements to Melilla,
where heavy fighting has been going
on between the Moors and SpaniardS.
The general opinion among the gov
arnment officials and military and
navy officers at Valparaiso is that
Chile will remain neutral in event OF
hostilities between Bolivia and Argen-
tina. There is no truth in the report
that Chile is sending arms to BOLIVIA.
A company was formed in Berlin for
the purpose Of erecting a great alrShlp
garage, with landing and testing
grounds. The directorate is made up
of many persons well known in Ger
many.
Six out of fourteen suffragettes re-
Gently imprisoned in the Holloway Jail
have been released on account OF in
Subordination.
The speeches Of Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, delivered before the French
labor organizations are arousing in
tense interest in labor circles. The
aNtrpma socialists bitterly
him as a reactionary.
Mohamed Ali, the dethroned shah,
who is now in the Russian summer
legation, has declined to receive a
deputation to inform him Of his de-
position. Sipahadar and S~ardarasad,
the leaders in the nationalist move
ment, sent a telegram to the British
and Russian legations requesting them
to fix a time when his majesty may
receive a deputation notifying him Of
the change Of sovereign.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
100000 MEN NEEDED IN NV
HARVEST HANDS TO BE SUP
Piled BY GOVERNMENT.
Congressman Stevens and PowderIv
Assist in the Distribution
of Help,

Washington, ID. Can effort TO
get 10000 l%aborers, American and
foreign, for the states of Minnesota.
North Dakota and South Dakota, ia
to be made by the division OF immi.
grafton Of the department of com.
merce and labor. #. v. Powderly.
chief of the division, was in ~consulta.
ton with Congressman Stevens, OF
st. Paul, discussing the needs of the
Northwestern states and outlining
plans to be followed in filling the de-
mand for labor.
The division of information has no
power other than to gather full data
as to the demand for labor, and to use
such information in the effort to d.
rect immigrants to permanent posi-
tons. Mr.. Powderly proposed to ask
the cooperation of the state immigra-
ton officers and the state officials of
the northwest, and the heads of the
chief railroad systems in the effort to
bring about a general movement of
idle labor from the east to the north
western harvest fields and farms.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
Personal.

rGFbOUdt.
Rockefeller has decided nearly all
his property in Cleveland to his son.
The postmaster general announced
the number of clerks and letter car
riers promoted at the Omaha post
office.
Samuel William Johnson, professor
emeritus of agricultural chemistry at
Yale Is dead.
Formation Of q new French min
istry is now under way In Paris.
Harry b. Durham of Lincoln, was
appointed as land law clerk in land Of
Ace service at Washington.
An insurance policy for 100000 on
the life OF e. Fl. Hartman has been
written by Lloyds, London. for a New
York broker.
The body Of Oscar Wilde, the
writer, which was buried at Badnaux
In 1900. was alst week transferred to
Pere Lachaise.
The report published in the Lisbon
newspapers that King. Manuel Of por-
tugal is TO be bethrothed to Princess
Alexandsla Of Fife Is given authori-
tative denial.
twenty-five thousand dollars win b
ct President raft's disposal on his
western tour.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
LADY OF WHITEHOUSE DIES.
Daughter of President of Zachary Tay-
Tor wos Born at Fl. Smelling,
Mimi, In 1924.

Winchester, Va, July 27.-Mrs.
Elizabeth Taylor cambridge, the
daughter of President Zachary Taylor,
and former mistress of the White
House, died here after brief illness,
aged IS.
Mrs. cambridge was the third daugh-
ter OF Gen. Zachary Taylor, twelfth
president of the United States, and
was born at Fort Smelling, Mimi, April
20, 1924. and was IS years old. Death
was due to heart failure following a
long period of illness. She will be
burned here next Tuesday.
Mrs. cambridge received her educa-
ton in Philadelphia. At the age of
10 she married Major William w. S.
Bliss, who was a member of her ia
theirs staff in the Mexican war, and
who later became his private secre-
tary.
After her fathers Inauguration, Mrs.
Bliss, or Miss Betty" as she was
popularity called, became mistress of
the White House.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
Washington.

A. n. Sager of st. Louis is In Wash
ington and has given 1t out that an i'm
portant movement is on to build up
shipping on the Mississippi river and
its tributaries. A $40, 900, 900 orpora-
ton will be chartered In Delaware,
known as the Mississippi Valley Trans
portation company. 1t will put a new
type OF steel steamers on the Missis-
sippi and its tributaries, both on the
upper and lower rivers.
Declaring that any corporation
which keeps just and true books of
account" can make up the return re-
CURED by the proposed corporation
tax law and meeting other attacks on
that measure, Attorney General Wick
ersham made public a letter he has
written to a Wall street firm Of ac-
countants who challenge some provis-
ions of the proposed law as "abso-
lutely impossible of application"
Some notable instances of the dis
advantages in which United States
imports into France are placed by the
operation of the pending Franco-Can-
adam tariff agreement, just ratified by
the French parliament are given in
reports which have reached the state
department.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
concluded agreements with the postal
authorities OF Denmark and Japan, by
which after August /, 1909. parcels
exchanged with those countries may
be accepted up to $50 in value, and
eleven pounds in weight. The eleven
pound weight limit now applies to all
countries except France and Sweden.
President Taft visited a nickelodon
to see himself in action on q moving
picture screen. The scenes depicted
we're at Petersburg, Va, where the
president went about a month ago to
assist in the dedication of the Fort
Mahon monuments.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
ROBERT PITCAIRN IS DEAD.
For Many Years superintendent Of
the Pennsylvania r. r.

Pittsburg, Penna.-Robert Pitcairn,
for So years connected with the Penn
sylvania Railroad company and for
many years general superintendent of
that corporation, died at his home
here at the age of 73.
Mr.. Pitcairn retired three years ago
on account of i'll health, since which
time he has been president of the Sink
ing Fund Commission of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. The position was hon
orary.
In 1855 he was made superintendent
of the Pittsburg division of the Penn
~sylvania railroad, which position he
held at the time of the great riots in
1877.
The striking employees blamed him
for the refusal to grant them an in
crease in wages. Threats against his
life were so frequent that he was COM
peeled to leave the city for a time.
Later he won the regard of every
workman under him, through his ef-
forts in behalf of the sufferers from
the great food of May 81. 1889.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
SHEA SCORED AND TO PRISON.
Five to Twenty-Five Years In Cell ls
Penalty for Stabblng Girl.

New York City.-Cornelius p.
Shea, the former Chicago labor lead
er, who was found guilty on Wednes-
day of attempting to murder Alice
Walsh, a former Chicago waitress,
has been sentenced to not less than
five nor more than twenty-five years
in prison.
The former president of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Transfers lis
tened stolidly to Judge Fosters scath-
ing remarks in pronouncing sentence.
Your services for humanity are
urged here In your behalf" the court
said, because you have been active in
the affairs Of organized labor.
II believe I am helping the cause
of organized labor by Kidding it of one
such as you and sending you to states
prison.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
A falling building in Philadelphia

A falling building in Philadelphia
killed seven people.
Reports from all parts of Mexico In
dictate that the sentiment in faVor OF
q strike in sympathy with that OF
train dispatchers by the engineers and
| conductors OF the merged railroads
Of Mexico, is rapidly crystallizing.
Wright brothers aeroplane broke
the American fight records IN traVel"
ing seventy miles in eighty
Lieutenant Adams, with whom SUIT
ton was fighting, when he was killed,
~contradicted himself much in recital
in court.
Iowa scientists are excited over the
discovery of q large number or skel-
etons to mastodons and prehistoric
horses along the bluffs Of the Mis-
souri, river in Harrison n Monona
counties.
Albert Ryan Of Colorado, an organ
izer Of the Western Federation OF
Miners. shot and killed II. +. Snyder,
and fatally wounded Otto Miller, a
porter. at the United States hotel in
Los Angeles.
The war department has passed
judgment that a soldier whose death
resulted from an accident while en-
gagged in athletic contest encouraged
by the officers of mis- regiment was in
the line of duE.
President Diaz Of Mexico will come
to e. Paso, Tex, to confer with Presi-
dent Taft upon the occasion Of the
latter's western tour this fall.
Money order transactions in the
p~ostofices of the country have gown
to so large an extent in the last year
or two that it is now necessary 20
maintain a force of $50 accountants,
b~OokkeeperS. assOrters and examiners
in thu office of the auditor of the post
Office department.
Reports from all parts of South Da-
kota continue to give glowing ac-
counts Of the excellent condition Of
crops of all kinds.
Sixteen persons, five Of them WON
en-, met death by drowning in the
waters either surrounding or in the
vicinity of New York Sunday.
Edward Hayden, Omaha, head Of
the great department store, died sud
denly in that city a few days ago.
Congress will be asked at the in
stance of President Taft to authorize
the issuance of bonds to the extent of
the latest estimate of the cost of the
Panama canal.
Two killed and a score injured, one
probably fatally, was the sudden ter
mination of a baseball game in Lead,
when the lightning struck in the grand
stand.
There were 1916 persons to each
library and an average of seventy-two
volumes to every one hundred persons
in the United States in 1908, accord
ing to a bulletin issued by the United
States bureau of education.
An aggregate of $3.50, 494, 598 In saw
ings deposits in the national banks of
the country is shown in the complete
issued by the comptroller of
the currency on returns from the ma
tional banks, under the call for their
condition on June %.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
TO ASK FOR PRIMARY LAW.
Governor Deneen viii Urge Statute
at Special Session Of Legislature.

Springfield, Illinois-Governor De-
neen will ask the legislature in
special session next November to
pass a direct primary law which will
meet the approval Of the supreme
court. The governor already has COM
menced the campaign to enlist the
support of members for this measure.
1t is stated that the supreme courts
decision knocking out the first and
second primary laws completely, con-
tain clauses making it difficult to
draft a delegate convention bill.
1t is expected that before or during
the special session the supreme court
will comply with the constitutional
requirements that 1t direct the assem-
bly, in the drafting of bills ito cure
such defects and omissions as may be
found In the laws"
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25

New York, N. Y.-Mogul, a Ben
gal tiger ct Coney Island, attacked his
trainer, Henry F~alkendorth. during a
performance and injured him so badly
that small hope Is held out for his re-
covery.
The spectators, panic stricken, fed
from the auditorium when the tiger
jumped upon the man. One bl,w from
the beasts paw laid open Falken.
dorth's scalp and when the mar was
finally rescued by attendants who
prodded the beast with red hot irons,
he was unconscious.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
WEALTHY WOMAN MURDERED.
Body Found on Her Farm in North
Carolina.

Greensboro. North Carolina.-A mys-
ferrous murder came to light here,
when the dead body of Miss Ida
Newman, aged 75, who lived alone on
her farm in a remote section, was
found 800 yards from her residence.
Her skull had been crushed by a
bludegon and appearance indicated
that she had been dead for several
days.
Miss Newman was last seen Tues
day morning going in the direction of
her cow lot.
Robbery evidently was the object of
the murder, rs the dead woman was
wealthy and was known to keep con
siderable sums of money in her house.
Her residence was burned several
months ago in an effort to hide the
theft Of $1,000.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
General.

1t has been precisely decided that
will be called into the Thaw case
when the hearings are resumed al
White Plains.
The Argentine government has sent
passports to the Bolivian minister at
Buenos Ayres, ordering him to leave
Buenos Ayres within twenty-four
hours.
Detroit was selected as next years
convention city by the executive board
of the Catholic Educational Associa-
ton, and the dates were fixed as July
8, 6 and z.
The prosecutors OF Harry Thaw are
criticized and insanity experts scored
In a twenty page book which Mrs.
Mary Copley Thaw, mother of Thaw,
issued a few days ago. 1t bears the
title, ''The Secret Unveiled"
Acting Secretary of the Interior
Piercehas approved the selection by
the state of Colorado under the Carey
act of 1882 acres OF land In the Del
Norte land district to be irrigated by a
canal system.
Detroit was selected as next years
convention city by the executive board
OF the Catholic Educational associa-
ton and the dates were fixed as July
8, 6 and 7.
James j. Hill thinks the best thing
that congress could do would be to adj
journ and go home.
The French aviator, Latham. failed
in attempt to cross the Straits of
Dover In an aeroplane.
Representative Dawson invited Mr..
Taft to be present at the dedication
of the new Y. M. G. A. building at
Davenport In September. 1t is pos
sible the president will attend.
Frank Carlson of Iron Mountain.
Mich, committed suicide Sunday on
a Union Pacific train just west of
North Platte, Nebraska.
The national g. A. r. encampment
for Omaha in 1911 is the object to-
ward which active members of the
local posts have commenced working.
Governor john A. Johnson Of Mime
sofa has decided TO visit the Alaska.
Yukon exposition at Seattle and to
postpone undergoing a third ~operatioE
for appendicitis until his return.
MI. Byron's mascot mule Is now
drawing a beer wagon at Goldfeld,
Nevada.
In a local option election held
Thursday, stanton, w. Va. Joined
the ranks Of the 'dry'' towns OF the
state, voting against saloons by TWEEN,
ty majority.
The cholera situation In St. Peters
burg now seems TO be we'll under CON
troll.
Stanislaus M~acqnorski. deacon a,
Lissewo. died Thursday in Thori
Prussia, aged 102. He was the oldes'
Catholic ecclesiastic In the world.
Galveston was visited by terrific Car
ribean hnrrican with wind at sixty
sight miles an hour. The sea wal
prevented al loss OF life.
Upon conviction by court martial 70,
passing bogus checks and falling /,
pay his debts. Major Charles ]. ?
Clark. Twentysfxth Infantry. has bae,
a;smisssd from the array.
Tbs Wright aeropIane made d spee,
% ffty-four miles an hour throu9hoa
short dight
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
MARX TWAIN REeAINs PROPERTY
Suit for $4,000 Against Former Social
Secretary Is Settled.

Bridgeport, Connecticut.-In con-
sideration of the settlement of a suit
for $4,000 brought against her by
Samuel l.. Clemens MARK Twain.
whose social secretary she was for
several years. Mrs. Isabel ". Ash
croft yesterday ~reconveyed to Mr..
Clemens the house and land at Red.
ding which he transferred to her.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
IS HEAD OF THE oIDEoNs.
A. B. r. Moore, Cedar Rapids, 10 Elect.
ed National President.


st. Louis. Missouri.-The annual
national convention of the Gideons OF
the United States has ended. Officers
were elected as follows: National
president, A. B. r. Moore. Cedar Rap
Ids, Iowa; vice-president, 3. G. Brown,
SIT. Louis; treasurer, Neia Rylander,
Chicago; trustees. G. X. Smith, De
troit, and w. c. Bennett, Chicago.
Next years convention win be held
In Detroit.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
FOUND SHOT THROUGH BRAIN,

Attempted Murder or Suicide Involves
Tulsa, Ok, Editor.
Tulsa, Ok.-With a 22-calibre pistol
lying on the floor beside him. Mark
Bassitte. editor Of the Tulsa Daily
News, former publisher at Nation
and Kankakee. III, AND manager OF
the yates Press bureau, in the Republl-
caa primary campaign in Illinois. last
year, was found In q printing shop
here.
There Is but little chance for his re.
covery.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
DISAGREE WITH THE UMPIRE.
Spectators Start Riot, G~randstand
Falls Score Injured.

Jackson. Michigan.-During a riot
over an unpopular decision by I'm
pire G. e. Eldridge, of the Southern
Michigan league. at the conclusion OF
the Jackson-Adrian game here nearly
a score OF people were injured when
the railing of the grandstand gave
way, precipitating them to the ground
IL feet below.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-25
STORM DEATH LIST is NOW 4,
Six Persons in Southern Hurricane

Six Persons in Southern Hurricane
Still Unaccounted For.
New Orleans, Louisiana.-With def
mite reports of 13 deaths not here
tofore recorded in the hurricane which
swept portions of Texas and Louisiana
last Wednesday, the death list totals
Al, with six persons previously report
ed missing still u~naccounted for.
Dispatches from Angleton, Tex,
confirmed the reports that Maurice p.
Wolfe, his wife, six children and a
negro servant had been drowned at
Christmas bayou.