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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22

Sears demonstrated to the jury that it
was practically impossible to remove
the weapon from the pocket by pulling
it forward without cooking it. A gun
expert from Denver then testified that
the revolver was defective and
took it apart and showed the defective
parts to the jury. Against these facts
the circumstantial evidence of the state
was worthless, and the jury was out
only a short time before bringing in a
verdict of mot guilty."
Jacobs returned to his home in the
eastern part of the county Saturday.
He is a young man who is well liked by
all who know him, bears an excellent
reputation, audit is the general opinion
of those who are acquainted with him
that the verdict rendered by the jury
at Sturgis last Thursday was a true
one.
A Day county gentleman who was
present at the trial informs US that the
arguments and plea made By Attorneys
Sears and Potter could not be surpassed.
During the closing plea maue by Mr.
Sears there wa hardly a dry eye in
the crowded court room, and when he
concluded there was not a person pres
ent who doubted that he had gained
freedom for his client. His plea also
practically reversed public sentiment
in Sturgis, and the citizens of that city
now express themselves as well salts
fed with the jury's verdict.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22
PRISONERS BREAK JAIL
TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE
FROM COUNTY JAIL.
MAKE A CLEAN GET AWAY
Outside Accomplices Provide
the Prisoners With Hacksaws
and Open the way to Escape.
No Trace of the Fugitives
Has Yet Been Found.
Has Yet Been Found.

Saturday afternoon two prisoners,
VIM. HI. O'Neill and Frank Brown,
who were being held for trial before
the circuit court, made their escape
from the county Jail by saving through
the bars, and up to the present time no
clue as to the whereabouts Of the fugi-
tives has been found, and il is extremely
doubtful if they will v e be appre-
hended.
Their escape was not discovered until
six o'clock when the sheriff took in the
supper for the prisoners and found that
two of the county's guests had flown,
leaving behind them part Of a broken
hacksaw as evidence Of the manner in
which they got through the bars. Four
prisoners were in the corridor from
which the escape was made, but two of
them were evidently SO well satisfied
with Day county hospitality that they
declined to leave. They stated that
the two who made their getaway had
very little difficulty in saving through
the bars and making their escape.
The hacksaw used in cutting the bars
had been passed to the prisoners by
some outsider. The saw was a coarse
one, and the men must have made con-
siderable noise in cutting through the
bars, but they evidently did the work
at a time when the county officials were
busiest and failed to notice the noise
made by the prisoners operations.
Neither of the escaped prisoners
were held upon a serious charge.
O'Niell was held for gambling and
Brown was charged with grand larceny.
The latter was the crook who touched
Joe Carr for quite a sum of money last
fall. They are both middle aged men
and are ''drifters," and both came
here last fall o~stensibly to work during
harvest and threshing, but their real
object was to accumulate the coin by
use of methods that would not require
much manual labor.
Descriptions of the fugitives have
been sent to the authorities of neigh
boring counties, but it is hardly prob
able that they will be captured.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22
Masonic Installation

The installation of officers of Coteau
Lodge No. 81 A. f. and A. M. and
of Rabonni Chapter No. % K. A. NJ,
occurred at the Masonic Temple Mon
day evening, The Blue Lodge officers
are: Floyd F. Yeager, w. M; Rex w.
Harris, S. W.; Ole T. Strandness, j.
W.; E. A. Schullian, Treas; C. A.
johnson, Sec; w. S. d. Adams, S. S.;
DR.. w. L. Cook, j. S.; DR.. j. L. Har-
ris, Tyler. DIR. w. l.. Cook acted as
Installing officer and w. S. ID. Adams,
as marshal.
The Chapter officers are: Josephus
Alley, E. H. P; DR.. j. L. Harris, E.
X; Andrew Small, Scribe; Floyd Yea
ger, Treas. G. A. Johnson, Sec; w. S.
d. Adams, c. of H.; Frank Gruby, p.
SD. c. Garrick, r. D.; DR.. w. l..
Cook, Ord Vale; Rex w. Harris, End
Vale; 0. T. Strandness, Guard; E. A.
Schullian, LIST Vale. G. c. Dunton acted
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22
a Busy Week

The past week has been one OF the
busiest in the history of Webster. The
stores have been crowded every day
with holiday shoppers, attracted by the
magnificent line of holiday goods our
merchants have on display, and holiday
goods have gone at a rapid rate. For
tunately u merchants prepared for an
extraordinarily heavy holiday trade by
ordering an exceptionally large stock of
goods, and Notwithstanding the immense
business of the past week, they are still
able to supply every demand of the
seekers for Christmas goods.
Only two days are left in which to
make your Christmas purchases, and
you will find that the Webster mer:
chants still have in stock just what you
are looking for. Come to Webster
either Friday or Saturday and complete
your Christmas purchases.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22
School Building Accepted

j. C. Edmond informs us that a set
Element was made between himself as
contractor and the board of directors
of the Catholic school Tuesday, the new
school building being accepted, and that
all parties concerned are well satisfied.
The total cost of the building COM
plete is SIG, 600. 90, and Webster can
well feel proud of this magnificent
structure. Our friends of the Catholic
faith are particularly to be congratu-
lated upon having one of the handsom-
est, most substantial, and best on
structed school buildings in the state.
1t is strictly modern in every particular
and it cannot fail to be a great salts
faction to Father Mensing, Frank Mohs
and others, who have been the princi-
pal promoters, to see this handsome
addition to the city in its completion-a
monument to their efforts and enter
prise.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22
Young Ladies Organize Club

The members of the girls basket ball
team met at the home of Miss Hazel
Rathbun Tuesday night and organized
a webster B. B. club" with the fol-
lowing officers: president and secretary,
Hazel Rathbun; vice-president, Cora
Ditmanson, treasurer, Mary Perkins;
guards, Dora Kidder, Ora Bates.
The membership Of the club is not
confined to the members of toe basket
ball club-any young lady in Webster
being eligible to membership-and the
object of the club is to promote inter-
est in athletics among the young ladies
of the city. We understand that the
promoters of the club will endeavor to
secure a building to be used as a gym
nasium by the members.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22
JACOBS IS ACQUITTED
is FOUND NOT GUILTY OF
NUMBERING SWEETHEART
STATE HAD A POOR CASE
States Evidence in the Case was
Purely Circumstantial and In
sufficient to Warrant a Con-
viction. Jacobs Returns to
His Home Near Waubay.

''Not guilty." was the verdict of the
jury in the Oscar Jacobs murder case
which was tried before Judge Rice at
Sturgis, in the Black Hills, last week.
After spending eighteen months in
the state penitentiary, convicted of the
murder of his sweetheart, Elba Roberts
at Sturgis on the night of January Is,
1909, Oscar Jacobs has returned to his
home in the eastern part of this county
a free man, acquitted of the terrible
crime of which he was accused and
convicted on June 5, 1909.
The legal battle to secure the free
dom of young Jacobs was one which
attracted much attention and interest
throughout the state. Sears & Potter,
of this city, were the attorneys for the
defense, and they deserve congratula-
tions upon the ann in which they
conducted their cas- and the success
which was their ultimate reward. At
the first trial of Jacobs, held at Sturgis
in June, 1909, they made a hard fight
for their client, but public opinion in
that county was strong against Jacobs,
and his conviction was a foregone con-
clusion before the case was ever brCdght
to trial. The evidence against Jacobs
was purely circumstantial, but he was
a stranger to the people of Sturgis, and
they Immediately arrived at the con-
clusion thathe was guilty and demanded
his conviction. The county spent thou
sands of dollars in securing expert wit
nesses, and upon the strength of their
testimony Jacobs was convicted of
murder in the firstdegree and sentenced
to the ~penitentiaiy for life. Sears &
Potter Immediately moved for a new
trial upon the grounds that the testi-
mony of the experts was incompetent.
The state supreme court granted their
motion, and early in May Messrs. Sears
& Potter were notified that a new trial
had been ordered.
The second trial commenced at Stur-
gis Tuesday, Dec. 13. Judge Rice had
ordered a special venire drawn for the
case, and there was not one of the jury
men that resided within forty miles of
Sturgis. From the beginning the state
had a weak case, and with the theoret-
ical evidence of its expert witnesses
eliminated it made a decidedly poor
showing. Jacobs version of the shoot
ing was that Miss Roberts had removed
the revolver. a long-barreled liver &
Johnson, from his inside coat pocket
and while handling it the weapon was
accidentally discharged. Jacobs carried
the revolver in his inside coat pocket
with the muzzle upward On account of
the length of the barrel, and Attorney
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22
Artesian Wells Giving Out

Pierpont's water supply is diminish
ing to an alarming extent, and the best
means of providing a sufficient supply
will be the next thing before the citi-
AS many of the smaller wells in
the neighborhood have ceased to flow it
would hardly seem advis able to sink a
new well and depend upon the low pres
sure for supply. A pumping station
with an elevated tank or an air pressure
tank will probably be the only solution
satisfactory. This will not only give
an ample supply for domestic purposes,
but furnish excellent fire protection.
The old well was a paying investment
but it has also been giving fair warn
ing for a year, Well. what are we
going to do about it?-Pierpont Signal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22
Couldn,t stand for Mudh

A card from the Ladies' Grape Arbor
Cafe, New Orleans, by DR.. p. ID. Pea
body, furnishes us with the following
important information:
"Down in this cafe they serve
mudhen under a fancy name and
consider it fine. Atlas and / have
not tried any yet. We eat fish and
oysters. Both feeling fine.
Percy"
This latter sentence will be joyful
tidings to the many Webster friends
who were considerably worried, espe-
ciaily about Knapp.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22
Finest Christmas Gift

There is nothing you a find to
present a relative or friend as a Christ
mas gift that will last as long or be so
much appreciated as a good photo
graph of yourself, family or home
johnson the photographer at Webster,
makes the best photos. Make an early
appointment and avoid the great holi-
day rush.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22
as installing officer and Albert Smith


as marshal.
Lois Chapter No. 8, o. E. s., installed
the following officers at the Masonic
Temple Wednesday night: Florence l..
Potter, w. M; Chas. A. johnson, w.
P; Jessie Edmond, A. M; Geo. c.
Dunton, Treas; Clara Dunton, Sec.
Rachel Yeager, Chaplain; Martha Knapp
Conductress; Tena Strandness, A. c.;
Eva Garrick, Organist; Beath Lund,
Warder; w. S. d. Adams, Marshal;
Chas. Nelson, Sentinel. Points of star,
Grace Huntington, Ada; Inez Peabody,
Ruth; Sophie Anderson, Esther; Marcia
Huntington, Electa; Eugenia Schullian,
Martha. Geo. c. Dunton acting as
installing officer and Sophie Anderson
as marshal. After the ceremonies
delightful refreshments were served
and a most delightful time enjoyed by
all present.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-22
Barber Shops to Close at $500

We the undersigned BARRIERS of the
City of Webster, duly give notice that
our shops will be closed every evening
at 500 o'clock except Saturday evening,
to go into effect Monday, Dec. 26, 1910.
The rule will be strictly enforced, no
use rapping on the door expecting
admittance. Signed,
C. C. Chapman,
A. M. Eastman,
+. T.. Otis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03

Chicago and obtained work. Then the
Carnegie medal committee got traces
Of him. Mccoy Immediately departed
for the east.
realizing that the hero-makers were
on his trail. he continued until he got
to Honolulu. He spent two years
there In peace and quiet until he learn
ed Of another move of the Carnegie
people. So he moved again.
He kept moving until, a few weeks
ago, he arrived at Tucson and got a
job. He was taking life easy when
the modest man was discovered, and
here he is, a hero!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
FILTHY STOMACH
Food Fermenting I'm Stomach Causes
a Rank Condition.

Food Fermenting I'm Stomach Causes
a Rank Condition.
When you have indigestion your
food sours: many times it actually
rots and forms gases that poison the
blood.
Take MI-O-NA stomach tablets If
you want to change your bad stom-
ach into a healthy. clean one.
MI-O-NA is the best prescription
for upset stomach and indigestion
ever written. Nomatter how miser-
able your stomach feels. MI-O-NA
stomach tablets give immediate re-
lief
Take MONA stomach tablets
which are guaranteed to cure indi-
gestion and rid yourself of dizziness.
biliousness, nervous or sick head
ache, or money back.
Take MONA tablets If you want
to make your stomach so strong that
It will digest the heartiest meal with
out distress, and furnish good, clean,
nutritious blood making elements to
the body.
Take MI-O-NA tablets, one or two
with or after each meal, If you want
to get rid of that drowsy, tired out
feeling.
Fifty cents is all the Harper
House pharmacy or leading druggists
everywhere ask for a large box Of
MI-O-NA tablets.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
RUNS FROM MEDAL
Illinois Young Man Given Car
negie Reward, Despite Eff
forts to Escape.
PURSUED ABOUT COUNTRY
Nearly Lost Life Trying to Rescue
Man from Gas Filled Well in
Adams County.

Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 3-The unique
distinction of being chased almost
around the world by a Carnegie medal,
and being finally captured after six
years, overpowered and branded as a
hero, belongs TO Henry P. Mccoy, Tue
sons newest and most modest citizen.
Mccoy didn't want to be a hero and
he put up a heroic fight against it, but
his former deeds have found him out
and he must sit down calmly and &C
cept the medal and a matter OF 81 900
that goes along with It.
Happened in Adams County.
1t all happened down in Mendon,
Adams county, Illinois, six years ago.
Frank L. Sherrer, 81 years old. had
been overcome by a powerful gas and
lay unconscious at the bottom of
deep well. Farmers were searching
for divers suits and experts to make
a descent when Mccoy settled the
question by clambering down into the
gas-filled we'll
After remaining as long as he dared
in an effort to save his companion, he
started to ascend. He had all but
reached the top of the ladder when he
was overcome and would have fallen
back into the we'll but for the assist
ance of men at the top.
Leaves the Country.
But when the young man came to his
senses in a hospital the next day he
was disguised to discover that every
body was planning to make a hero of
him.
Not for mine" he said. and straight
way slipped out of town. He went to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03

There is more catarrh in this sec
ton Of the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be incur
able. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease and pre-.
scribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing TO cure with local treat
ment, pronounced 1t incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitu-
tional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment Halls Ca
tarrh cure, manufactured by F. J. Che
ney & Co, Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. 1t
is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts direct
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. They offer 500 for any
case it fails to cure. Send for circu-
lars and testimonials
Address F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo,
Ohio.
Sold by druggists. 70 cents.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
PORK PRICES TO DROP
Bacon, Hams and Other Products
Will Take Fall In Two Weeks.

Bacon, Hams and Other Products
Will Take Fall In Two Weeks.
Chicago, Nov. 3.-The prices Of ba-
con. hams and all hog products will
take decided slump within the next
two weeks, according to the experts at
the Union stockyards.
Hogs are now selling on a basis of
80 cents for corn, although corn is &C
tually only worth half that much. A
fall in prices is inevitable, and the big
packers are getting ready for it.
At Armour & Co.'S and other pack
ers yesterday it was said that break
fast bacon was selling at from 20 to
80 cents a pound, but that so many
bacon hogs were coming into the mar
ket that a fall in prices was certain.
Slight reductions are now being made,
and larger ones will come within few
weeks, when the new hams and bacon
sides are cured.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03

the 18th floor of the Federal build
ing at Chicago on or before Nov. %.
Persons taking this examination who
are willing to accept appointment in
the ordnance department at large
may also be examined in the optional
subject of typewriting if they indi-
cate in their applications a desire
to take that subject. The subject of
typewriting will include tests in
copying from rought draft and copy
ing from plain copy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
NO MOB VIOLENCE
FEARED AT PEORIA
Quiet Follows Attack on School
TeacheT-Father Refuses to
Aid Prisoner.

Peoria, ILL.,. Nov. 3.-Quiet pre-
walls at the jail where Joseph Hoff-
man. the man who it is alleged, at
tackled Miss Mazo Clark, a school
teacher. late Tuesday, is imprisoned.
Excitement about the city has quiet
ed and the law will take its course.
Hoftman's father refuses to assist his
son in any manner. -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
ANOTHER AGAINST CANNON
New York Congressman Declares OPP
position to Reelection.

Position 10 ReeIecuOn-
New York, Nov. 3.-HerDert Par
sons, the strongest of the New York
city members of the house of rep
resentatives, and even now the prac-
teal leader of his party in this coun-
ty, who is a candidate for reelection
to congress, has come forth in pos
tive statement against Speaker Jo-
seph G. Cannon. II do not favor
the reelection of Mr.. Cannon to the
speakership," says Mr.. Parsons in
letter to a constituent. THE powers
of that Office have been materially
curtailed, but they still remain suf-
ficient to make it undesirable TO have
it filed by one who, in my opinion,
Is so little favorable at heart to a
number of the party policies
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
DAILY SHORT STORY.
Continued From Page Four,

That night when they trudged up
the hill swinging their strings of sill
very fish somebody saw them and
said:
well, If Phoebe Allen amt caught
Captain Amos at last
Somebody else saw them and said,
Land sakes. if Captain Amos amt
caught Phoebe Allen. after air.
And just then Captain Amos was
saying. When you get over to the
big house with me- Phoebe. there
won't be anything to shut off your
view of the weather vane"
81 guess there won't be anything to
obstruct my happiness either" sighed
Phoebe contentedly
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
SPECIMEN OFFICIAL BALLOT
To Be Voted November s, 1910.
PROPOSED QUESTION OF PUBLIC POLICY NO. /

PROPOSED QUESTION OF PUBLIC POLICY NO.
o of
eight of the voters and for the legislation
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
PROPOSED QUESTION OF PUBLIC POLICY NO. 8

a
preventing
he elections?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will
visit Davenport tomorrow to give a
campaign speech in the interest of
the candidacy of Charles Grilk, the
young attorney who is running for
congress on the republican ticket
He will speak at Central park at
1890 in the morning. Mr.. erik is
to be heard briefly also.
According to the program for the
day, Colonel Roosevelt will arrive in
Davenport from Chicago at $3.50 a.
m. He will be a breakfast guest at
8 o'clock at the home of Miss Alice
French. the authoress. Tenth and
Iowa streets. Miss French and the
ex-president have been friends for
years.
The ex-president will leave the
French home at 1918 o'clock and
go by the shortest route to Central
park.
Departs at Noon.
Leaving the park, he will go d.
rectly down Main street, so that the
crowds who may not be able to
catch a glimpse of him at the park
may see him during his journey be-
tween the park and the Rock Island
depot.
His special train will leave the
Rock Island passenger station in
Davenport at IL o'clock sharp, west
bound for Des Moines, where he will
speak tomorrow night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
TO HOLD NEW EXAMINATION

Recruiting List of Eiigibles as Type
writer's at Arsenal.
The government is having diff
Guilty keeping a list of eligibles for
appointment as typewriter at Rock
Island arsenal. and another exam
nation for recruits will be held here
Nov. so. The position pays $500
per annum. Applications must be
filed with Peter Newton, secretary of
the Seventh civil service district on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
Killed and Robbed of IS 600.

Salem. Ore, Nov. 3.-Highwaymen
shot and killed J. E. Roberts, a real
estate man, last night and robbed him
of $4,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-03
COL. ROOSEVELT
HERE TOMORROW
To Deliver a Political Speech
at Central Park, Daven-
port, in Morning.
COMES TO BOOST GRILK
VIII Be Breakfast Guest at Home of
Miss Alice French, Talking at
1880 and Leaving at IL.

Pittsburg, Pa, Nov. 3.AAfter his
campaign trips, which have been a Sc
we're strain upon him, Roosevelt had
a day of rest today as he travelled
westward on his way to Iowa, where
he Is to speak tomorrow for Charles
erik, republican candidate for con-
gress. Grilk is to meet Roosevelt in
Chicago and escort him to Davenport,
leaving Chicago at 10 o'clock in a spe-
ciaI car. Roosevelt is scheduled to
speak In Davenport, Iowa City, West
Liberty, Marengo and Des Moines. On
his return to New York he will make
several speeches on his way across
Ohio.