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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1910-04-28

Mrs. E T. Giddings is the
guest of Woodbine relatives for
a few DAYS.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
GOEBEL MONUMENT IS
UNVEILED BY FRIENDS
Tributes Paid to Kentucky's
Fiery Governor, Killed by
an Assassin.

Frankfort, KY, Feb. 5.-The 10th an
niversary Of the death of William Goe-
bel, who was the central figure in one
Of the most stirring chapters in the lat
ter days Of Kentucky's history, was OBJ
served today by the unwilling Of a mar
BILE and bronze monument above the
grave in the state cemetery here.
Coincident with the ceremony of I'M
yelling. the body of his brother, Arthur
Goebel, who devoted his life after the
assassination to an effort TO convict the
men he believed guilty of the murder
and died just after his work had come
to naught, was laid to rest beside that
of his brother.
The Kentucky general assembly adj
journed as a mark of respect and at
tended the dual exercises in a body. A
great throng gathered around the mon
ument. Former Governor j. G. w.
Beckham, who as lieutenant governor
succeeded to the executive chair at
William Goebel's death, was master OF
ceremonies.
Miss Lille Goebel, of Phoenix, Ariz.,
niece of the decedents, cut a cord re-
leasing the large American flag which
yelled the statue. a
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
DELEGATION OF H0BOES
TO QUIZ ROCKEFELLER

Chicago. Feb. A delegation of the
chemically unemployed will descend on
John D. Rockefeller within a month and
put to him this question::
You nave the earth; what are you 60
ing to do with it,"
The suggestion was made In the con-
vention of the unemployed by Attorney
Nicholas Klein, delegate of the Cincinnati
organization.
Mr.. Rockefeller is to lie called on by
three 'hoboes,' or by three unemployed
men, If that term is to be preferred"
said Mr.. Klein. The idea is to call his
attention as the richest man in America,
and the attention of all thinging men TO
the existing economic situation. 1t will
be a bringing together of persons of the
most divergent classes of society.
The men that will form the delegation
will be men of the actually unemployed
class. We don't want TO send lawyers or
college professors. Mr.. Rockefeller will
receive them, l am sure, because he is
democratic enough to do that. He is a
good man, the victim OF circumstances
He will give them an answer OF some
sort. Whatever he says will help u.s."
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
GREAT MEDIUM IS
BRANDED A FAK!EER
BY PSYCHOLOGIST
Eminent Harvard Man Thinks
She Is Possibly Unconscious
of Deception.

New York, Feb. 5.-Dr. Hugo Won
Munsterberg. the Harvard psychology
ical authority, has published a study Of
one of the seances given by Eusapia
Palladino, the famous italian clairvoy-
ant. Nine. Palladino's performances
have excited great wonder both in this
country and abroad. Among those she
impressed was the late Caesare LON
broso, the eminent Italian crimjnolo-
gist.
Professor Munsterberg asserts that
all her "feats" are caused by trickery
and physical devices. He qualities the
charge, however, by saying that he
thinks she has a split personality and
that in her everyday proper person is
not conscious of the fact that she uses
trickery in her anc In describing
a sitting at Lincoln arcade, Professor
Munsterberg thus writes Of the incident
on which he bases his conclusions:
lone week before Christmas, at the
midnight hour, I sat again at Madame
P~alladino's left side. A widely known
scientist was or her right. We had
her under strictest supervision. Her
left hand grasped by and Her right
hand was held by her right neighbor.
Her left foot rested on my foot. while
her right was pressing the foot of her
other ~neighbor.
There Came a GursIine Scream.
For an hour the regulation perform
ance had gone one. We sat in the dark
ened room in the highest expectancy.
John was begged to touch my arm and
then to lift the table in the cabinet be-
hind Palladino. John really IL lie
touched me distinctly on my hip, and
then on my arm, n at last he pulled
my sleeve at the elbow. l plainly felt
the thumb and the fingers. 1t was most
uncanny
And finally John was to lift the
table in the cabinet. We held both her
hands. We felt both her feet. and yet
the table. three feet behind her, began
to Stratch the floor and we expected it
to be lifted. But instead there sud-
denly came a wild, gurgling scream. 1t
was such a scream as l have never
heard before in my life, not even in
Sarah Bernhardt's most thrilling
scenes. 1t was a scream as II a dagger
had stabbed Eusapia right through the
heart.
Grasped Eusapia's Unshod Foot.
What had happened? either she
nor any of the others had the slightest
idea that a man was lying fiat on the
floor and had succeeded in slipping
noiselessly, like a snail, below the cur
tain into the cabinet / had told him
that l expected wires stretched out
from her body and he looked for them.
What a surprise when he saw that she
had simply freed her foot from her
shoe and with an athletic backward
movement of the leg vas reaching out
and fishing with her toes for the guitar
and the table in the cabinet! And
then, lying on the floor, he grasped her
foot and caught her heel with firm
hand. She responded with that wild
scream which indicated that she knew
that at last she was trapped and her
glory shattered.
Her achievement was splendid. She
had lifted her unshod foot to the height
Of my arm when she, as john had
touched me under cover of the curtain.
She did it without changing in the
least the position of her body"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
FRENCH FUGITIVE IS
FOUND IN WILDERNESS
Wounded Man of Uncertain
Identity Located in Cali
fornia Hunting Lodge.

San Jose, Cal, Feb. Awhile search
ing for a bandit who recently held up
the Alvarado station, officers yester-
day surrounded a shooting lodge in a
lonely spot near this city and found
therein a man who asserted he was the
Marquis De Courcelle, who was a
principal in a mysterious shooting af-
fray near DIN Richmond, last No
yember.
The man was brought to this city
and placed in Jail to await inyestiga-
ton. He Is suffering from a wound.
The police think De Courcelle may
be DR.. Arnold De Falaise, representing
the Pasteur Institute or Paris, who
disappeared on October %, last and for
whom the police OF Ashland, Ore, are
looking. They assert he answers the
description OF De Falaise which has
been sent out by the Ashland police
department.
The French consul In Sal Francisco,
who some time ago looked into the
mans case, failed TO establish his
claim to French nobility.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
PARIS RETURNING TO
4 NORMAL CONDITION
Flood Conditions Materially
Improving in Stricken
French Capital.

Paris, Feb. 4.-The flood situation
continues to improve rapidly. Except
in the Javel quarter, the 18th arron-
basement and a few isolated spots on
the left bank OF the river Seine. the
waters have almost wholly reeeded
from the streets Of Paris.
The retreating waters have exposed
great gaps in the pavements. while
stranded boats and bits OF wreckage
indicate how far the river wandered
from it's normal course.
The work of disinfection and the re-
storing of transportation systems Is
proceeding energetically, but the prog
ress is necessarily slow. 1t will be
many days and probably weeks before
the telegraph and telephone systems,
the surface railways n the railroad
lines are again on a normal basis.
John Burns, president of the British
local government board, who came from
England TO examine the situation here,
paid a remarkable tribute to the prodf-
gies performed by the relief ~organiza-
tons.
He said today that he had been par
ticularly impressed by the splendid
courage displayed by the poorer classes
in the inundated districts.
The plain below Paris as far as st.
Germain-en-Laye is still under several
feet OF water.
A generous American who desires
that his IDENTIFY shall not be revealed,
has written 10 one Of the relief socie-
ties offering to pay for all the bread
distributed gratuitously during the next
80 days.
Later today 1t vas learned that Rod
man Wanamaker had offered through
American Ambassador c to pay
for a loaf OF bread for every flood vic
tim in Paris and vicinity, daily, for a
period of 80 days.
The American subscriptions received
over night included $4,000 from Henry
G. Prick. of Pittsburg, and $1,000 from
citizens of Baltimore. The grand total
of American subscriptions now ex-
ceeds $3.50, 900, the largest sum con-
tributed by any foreign country.
Up to this morning Ambassador Ba-
con a turned over to the French ov-
eminent $3.50, 900, which is being used
by the authorities at their discretion
or transmitted to some agency for dis
tribution designated by the donors.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
MRS. BROkAW WINS
SUI! AGAINST HER
WEALTHY HUSBAND
Court Holds Mans Charges
Against His Helpmeet Were
Not Justified.

New York, Feb. 5.-MrS. Mary Blair
Brokaw was granted alimony OF $15,-
COO a e The decision was handed
down in the supreme court at Mineola
by Justice Putnam, before whom the
case was tried. The separation was
granted IN the ground of desertion.
The Brokaw trial was one of the
longest and most sensational in the
history of separation suits in the state
courts. Mrs. Brokaw asked a separa-
ton and 81, 500 a month alimony. h
charged cruelty and abandonment and
for days occupied the witness stand
telling in detail how, as she alleged,
she a been spied upon by ervants
at Mr.. Brokaw's direction, while she
was staying in the Brokaw residence
at Great Neck, l.. l., and Mr.. Brokaw
was at his hunting lodge in High Point,
n. c.
Her husband had neglected her and
sighted her, she claimed, and finally
abandoned her. She attributed his
conduct to unreasoning and unjustif-
able jealousy and bad temper.
Her Character Attacked.
On cross-examination Mr.. Brokaw's
counsel tried to show that her hus-
bands jealousy was justified. She
was asked about a house party and
other social happenings at Great Neck
and kilograms from the absent nus
band were produced demanding to
know if such and such a man had been
entertained with Mrs. Brokaw's woman
riends on these occasions. MRS. Bro
kaw persistently denied that she had
eve carried Oh hiTtati0ns or in any
way given her husband cause for
jealousy.
The kilograms and letters from Bro
kaw to his wife and from Brokaw to
the Great Neck employees. read into the
evidence, enlivened the trial apprecia-
bly,.
As to Kissing Doctor.
In one letter to his wife BrOkaw said:
You promised to see no man while
I am away. You know what ] told you
about kissing the doctor. If he at
tempts to kiss you tell him that o
do not kiss any one but your husband.
/ will know if you do, and If you kiss
any n 1 will not var to kiss you
again"
Mr.. Brokaw's ordeal in the witness
chair also was a long one. He denied
that he frequently drank to excess in
the first year of their married life;
laid upon Mrs. Brokaw the brunt of
the blame for the many dissensions IN
the family, and refuted charges that
his conduct had forced his wife to lock
herself In her rooms and that he had
forcibly entered her apartments against
her will to quarrels with her.
Mr.. Brokaw submitted a statement
that he was worth only about 81, $780,
900, and declared that an award of
$50, 900 a yea alimony would be ex-
cessive.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
MRS. FORD FAILS TO
SECURE A DISMISSAL

Cincinnati, Ohio. Feb. 4.-The trial of
Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford for al
legged blackmail was continued here to-
day, Judge James B.. Swing declining
to stop the proceedings on the motion
Of the defense to dismiss because
Prosecuting Attorney Hunt refused to
obey a court order and furnish the de-
Tense with a transcript of the grand
jury testimony of Charles l.. Warmer.
The decision is not final, Judge Swing
stating that the point at issue Is in
volved in a case pending before the SUI
preme court of the state and until that
Is decided he would hold the matter in
obeyance.
He said the defense could Ak ex-
ception to this course, and IL the SUI
preme court denied the contention that
grand jury proceedings are inviolate, a
motion for a new trial would be enter
tained If the higher tribunals decision
is delayed beyond the conclusion of the
case at bar.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
YOUNG WOMAN IS
TIGHTLY HELD BY
The DARK PRINCE
Alarmed Villagers Call on
Their Priest to Exercise the
Evil Spirit.

Charlottetown. p. e. l., Feb. 4.-The
French farmers OF New Zealand, a
small settlement at the extreme east
ern end OF Prince Edward Island, have
been thrown into intense nervous ex-
citemenent by a series OF supernatural
phenomena surrounding a young wom-
an, Chinene.
These ignorant farmers believe the
girl Is possessed of a devil, and Fa-
Their Walker, Of Roilo Bay. the parish
priest, has been importuned to perform,
the ceremony OF exorcism once resorted
TO by the Catholic church for the pur-
pose OF curing one possessed OF devils.
Since the death of her parents
Chinene, who Is 20 years old, has been
keeping house for her brothers, small
farmers. Several months g the Oldest
brother informed his sister that he in
tended to marry. Miss Chinene burst
into a fit of rage and declared that she
would as soon have a devil In the FAM
lily as a girl"
Floats in the Air.
That night the household vas
aroused by loud noises, which seemed
to come from all parts of the house.
Then the voice of the girl, shrieking
In agony, was heard from her room.
The brother rushed to the girls
ROOM, followed by other members OF
the family. When they opened the
door. they declare they saw the young
woman floating in the air several feet,
above her bed. She was talking in
conerentry In a strang language.
She finally sank back or her bed
and fell into a natural sleep. When
she awoke next morning she knew
nothing of the occurrence.
Night after night the same perform
ance was repeated. News OF the hap
penings soon leaked out among the
farmers, and these simple people came
to believe that the girl, by her sacri-
iigeous remark concerning her pros
pective s!steriniaw, had given herself
over to the "evil one"
Has Ciairvoyant Powers.
The girl developed c~lairvoyant pow
err while in what eemed like a hypnotict
trance, and told her visitors how much
money they had with them, and she
was also able to repeat the addresses
and contents of letters in their pockets.
Doctors were called In, but could do
nothing. Next the parish priests as
sistance was sought, but earnest pray;
ers seemed to be unavailing. Mean
while, the excitement became so In
tense that Father Walker issued a no.
tice TO parishioners forbidding any fur
ther visits to the home OF the young
woman.
DIR. Peter Conray, chief OF staff az.
the Charlottetown hospital. declares
that In the Chinene girls case nothing
has happened which cannot be ex-
planned by science. His personal theory
is that the young woman Is suffering
from autohypnotism with "obsessive
influences
He also advanced the theory that by
involuntary hypnotism, Miss Chinena
created decisions in the minds OF those4
around her.
She has been taken to an asylum for
the insane.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
RESPECTED MAN SAYS
HE'S FORCED TO STEAL
Impulse Irresistible, He De-
clares, When He Gets Whisky
Under His Belt.

Pontiac, Mich, Feb. 4-Developments
following a raid of the Clinton hotel
yesterday bid fair to reveal the source
OF nearly half a hundred burglaries in
Pontiac in the last three years. James
Monroe, proprietor OF the Clifton hotel,
and. when sober, a respectable citizen.
admits, the police declare, most OF the
burglaries, and has told the officers
things that will lead TO discovering the
rest of the robbers.
Monroe is said to have beer shot by
Patrolman p. A.. Knight last Wednes-
day, but escaped and went 10 Windsor,
where his wound was cared for. To the
sisters who nursed him Monroe Is re-
ported to have confessed. He says he
returned to Pontiac with the idea Of
giving himself up, but the officers made
the arrest before he had carried out his
intentions.
(, George Hicks and Richard HEX
brothersinlaw of Monroe, and William
Brown have been arrested on the sto-
ries told by Monroe. Monroe declares
that every time he had a few drinks
Of whisky, the impulse to steal became
irresistible.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
EXTORTI0N IN PAPER
nHUE is UISJLUSEU

Columbus. o., Feb. Sat the annual
meeting OF Associated Ohio Dailies,
comprising 124 daily newspapers OF
Ohio, held today in this city, a state
ment upon "The Price Which Publish
ers Should Pay for Print Paper was
made by John Norris, chairman of the
committee on paper OF the American
Newspaper Publishers association. Mr..
Norris said IL free competition and nor
NAL conditions should prevail in the
paper trade, news print should be dellv-
cred in press rooms at $35 a ton, or s1.75
per 100 pounds.
He charged hat newspapers are
taxed IS a ton above hat figure on
1000, 900 tons, or $4,000, 900 per annum.
because of the ignorance and lax meth
DDS of print paper makers. and hat the
same causes are imposing a penalty Of
$50, 000, 900 per annum upon the users Of
all kinds OF paper.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
RAILROADS DENY
WAGE INCREASE

the country have notified the represen-
tatiyes of 80, 900 iremen Of h rejec-
ton of their demands for a 20 to 20
per cent wage increase and other con-
c~essions. News of the rejection was
contained in a private dispatch from
Chicago today.
The roads express a willingness to
arbitrate the question of wages, but
fatty refused other demands.
The demands OF the firemen were
made on railroads In the west and Off
Gals Of the eastern lines said today
tina they did not know whether de-
mands would be made on their lines
or not.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
WIFE OPPOSES AUTOPSY
ON HER HUSBANDS BODY

Monroe City, Mo-, Feb. 4.-With the
resumption of the inquest today over
the body OF Professor James T.
Vaughn. which was exhumed yester-
day, there arose a probability that a
post mortem examination may not be
held. Coroner Wilson stated he would
oyerruie the protest of Prosecuting At
torney Fuller and permit witnesses OF
Mrs. Anna Vaughn, the widow, to tes-
tify.
in the state normal school at Kinks
vile, and died after a few hours i'll
ness. His brothers caused the disin-
terment of the body, which Is now In
the rooms of an undertaken.
Attorneys for Mrs. Vaughn say their
only reason for wanting to avert an
autopsy Is TO spare the feelings ct tho
widow and other relatives.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
EVIDENCE IN THE AULD
COURT MARTIAL ALL IN

Boston, Feb. 5.-There was no morn
Ing session today at the Charlstown
navy yard of the court martial which
is trying Paymaster George P. Aud,
on charges of assault IN DR.. Edward
S. Cowles at a hop" last December.
The evidence was concluded yesterday,
and adjournment was taken until this
afternoon. when Major Leonard, senior
counsel for Aud, was to begin the
argument.
That unusual interest in the case is
being shown at Washington was borne
out in a degree by a request that a full
transcript OF the proceedings be sent
to both Secretary of the Navy Meyer
and Senator Lodge.
The trial OF Past Assistant Surgeon
Ansey d. Robnett on charges similar
to those against Paymaster Aud, will,
it was unoficially stated, start next
Monday
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
HEAVY FALL OF RAIN
IN SOUTHERN STATES

Louisville, KY, Feb. 5.-The spring
like weather of the last two days In
the south and southwest has given
place to rain end mitch lower temper
atures.
In ONE parts OF Texas, the Their
mometer yesterday registered in the
neighborhood Of 80. freezing weather
prevails today.
Rain is falling at nearly all points
east of the Mississippi and south to the
gulf. and this will be followed before
nightfall by much colder weather, ac-
cording to the weather bureau.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
DEADLY CIGARET Is
CAUSE OF DISASTER

Laredo. Tex. Feb. 5.--The toll OF hu-
man life which paid the penalty OF
negligence on the part of some miner.
according to latest reports. is placed at
10. After an official report showed So
dead. IL additional bodies were recov-
cred, bringing the total up to e5. while
three others have died in the hospitals.
making the grand total Of victims thus
Tar 90.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
FEVER EPIDEMIC IN A
FEDERAL PENITENTIARY

Leayenworth, Kan. Feb. IAN cpl
demic Of typhoid fever has broken
In the federal prison here. Richard
Bruno. OF West Virginia, il dead from
the disease. Eugene Ross, of Oklahoma,
Is dying and several others are seri-
ousiy Ill There are nine patients In
the hospital with the maiady. The
prison physician attributes the discasV
TO impure water.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
PRESIDENT WILL HAVE
POWER OF WITHDRAWAL

washington, Feb. 4.--That there shall
be no question as to the power Of the
president to withdraw public lands for
conservation purposes. and continue
the Withdrawals in force until revoked
by him or by act OF congress-. he Sem
ate committee on public lands today re-
ported . substitute fer two or the adj
minls<ration conservation bills. ccver~
ins the points In question.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
MINERS UNION GIVES
MONEY TO THE BEREFT

indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 5.-Reports OF
committees occupied the attention OF
the United Mine Workers today. The
leaders hoped to be able to complete
their work and leave for Toledo to-
night.
The convention voted $1,000 for the
families of the men killed in the mine
explosion at Drakesboro, KY.
Toledo, Ohio, Feb. AT an executive
session of the operators of the Ohio,
Indiana and Pennsylvania mining dis
tricts lasting until noon today, j. c.
KoIsem, manager of the Jackson Hill
Coal and Coke company, of Terre
Haute, Ind, was agreed upon for chair
man of the Joint wage conference with
the miners. Another meeting will be
held tonight.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11

lAYM EN- TO MEET.

St. Louis, Feb. 5.-A four days con
ference OF the laynan's missionary
movement will begin here tonight with
a dinner 10 the 1000 delegates. Ad-
drt sses will be made by DIR. M. ID. Eu-
hank. OF China; E. w. Halford. OF
w ashington. and J.. Campbell White.
Of New York.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
AT T

New York. Feb. "A three-masted
schooner was sunk on the Sandy Hook
bar today. The shore stations report
Ing the loss OF the schooner were un-
able to make out her identity or learn
the caue OF the accident. 1t is believed
the crew was taken Off by a passing
steamer.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
RESCUERS STRIVE
fG TAKE C0RfSES
FROM DEATH TRAP
Scenes of Explosions in Col
orado and at Cherry Witness
Hard Efforts.
DEATH LIST HAS NOW
REACHED TOTAL OF SO

Drakesboro, Ky, Feb. A.
Thirty three miners are known
to have been killed, two are
missir,, and is are injured as
a result of the explosion in the
Browder coal mine. There were
only 100 men in the two wings
of the mine at the time Of the
explosion, but the so in the west
wing were uniniured and es-
capped.
Those in the east wing felt the
full force of the explosion. One
or two of the injured are in a
critical condition. OF the dead
about half were whites, all
Americans, and the remainder
negroes