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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
MAY B. Due TO MADISON.
Kansan's Report Probably Caused Bal
fingers Recent Action.

Washington, Nov. 15.-It is suspect
ed here that the report of Representa-
tive Madison of Kansas on the Bal
Iinger case may have something to do
with an announcement made here by
Secretary Ballinger that he would
recommend to the president that the
famous Cunningham coal lands cases
be transferred from the jurisdiction of
the general land office direct to the
court of appeals of the District of
Columbia.
The Cunningham claims are those
which L. r. CLAWS protested were be
ing turned over to monopolistic inter-
ests with the acquiescence of the Sec
rotary of the interior, who had pre-
viously acted as counsel for the claim
ants In his report on the case Repre-
sentative Madison, who was member
of the investigating committee, said of
the Cunningham claims:
81 have no heSitancy in expressing
my conviction that they are fraudulent,
and that the government will prove
them to be so if earnest, diligent and
able lawyers prosecute the cases vigor-
ousIy 1 have read a large portion of
the evidence in the hearings before
Commissioner MCGEE and 1 am con-
WINGED that the governments case is
not being properly presented or vigor-
ousIy prosecuted. The cross examina-
ton of Clarence Cunningham was a
farce. 1t should have been earnest
and forceful."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
LIKE PLASS CASE.
Rev. C. NJ. Severance, Promoter of a
Banana Company, Is Arrested.

New York. Nov. 15.-A case some
what similar to that of the Rev. Nor
man Plass, formerly of Washburn col
lege. Topeka, now of Boston, came to
light when federal officials swooped
down on the offices of the Ell Progresso
Banana company and the International
Finance company at 154 Nassau street
and arrested the four officials and the
Rev. Claude NJ. Severance, a director
of the banana company, on charges of
a conspiracy to use the mails in fur
therance of a scheme to defraud.
A letter to another minister and
signed by Doctor Severance was found
in the Offices 1t praised the merits of
the company and urged the pastor to
invest, assuring him that there was no
trickery and that he would become in
dependently wealthy in a short time.
In circular letters which were sent
over the country, the banana company
asserted that it owned 1880 acres of
choice banana lands in Honduras. This
assertion. according to postoffice in
spectors who made the raid. is ficti-
tiOuS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
ARBrrRATE THEIR DIFFERENCES
This Is Latest Plan of Striking Mis-
souri, Pacific Employees.

Sedalia, Mo-. Nov. 15.-StrIking employees
of the Missouri Pacific railroad shops and
the heads of the railway system will be
asked to arbitrate their differences. This
held here under the auspices of the local
commercial club. Representatives of
every city which is division point of
the railroad in Missouri. Kansas and Ar
kansas, and the governor of Arkansas
were present.
The parties to the dispute will be asked
by resolution to submit their differences
to arbitration. A committee of five mem
bers was appointed to draw up the paper.
After the mayors and the heads of COM
mercial clubs in cities on the railway have
signed the resolutions, they will be pre-
scented to the two sides.
Delegates to the meeting reported that
although the strike has been in progress
but a short time, there has been a visible
falling off in business,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
He MISREPRESENTATION
Clark in Washington to Meet Members
as They Come In.

Washington, Nov. 15.-Champ
Clark, prospective speaker of the ma
tional house of representatives in the
next congress, has arrived in Wash
ington. Mrs. Clark accompanied him.
The Missouri representative has in
mind to see the Democratic house
members as they come TO Washington
and talk over policies with them. He
also will speak to them about the i'm
portant question Of the house organi-
zation in the next congress.
The speaker of the house has ten
times the power of the vice president,
and in some things he has advantages
over the president himself. That is
particularly true in the shaping of leg
islation which he can largely control
through his power to appoint commit
tees and change the membership of
committees at his discretion or pleas
ure. The Missourian has worked up
through the natural course, having
been second man in power in the
Democratic minority organization, then
the minority leader and now; since the
minority has become the majority, he
is by the rules of politics entitled to be
speaker.
Trouble Over Minority Leader.
Republican congressman who are ar
irving here to make preparations for
their families for the winter freely
admit that, like their opponents in the
next house, they will have trouble in
agreeing on a legislative program for
the coming session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
CALL FOR DR.. BABB.
Milk Inspector Is Needed at City Hall
to Help Milk Maid.

Some people can't keep out of trou-
BILE, others. have it thrust upon them
and then there are those who court it
DR.. Babb, city milk inspector, has
had it thrust upon him, he has conrted
it and now he has taken it with him 10
the altar of matrimeny. g..-s .fs -,a
DR.. Babb is the man who legislateds
himself from office few weeks ago by
pushing an ordinance through the city
commissioners that failed to provide
for his appointment as city milk in
spectOr-and it was necessary for the
mayor and commissioners to appoint
him all over again.
Following a series of complaints that
came to the city hall alleging that Dr..
Babb did not stay in his office long
enough to receive license subscriptions,
the city commissioners found it neces-
sary to appoint deputy milk inspector
to take up this work.
''The people are kicking like fury -
said one of the officials. "They have
to pay a license for selling milk and in
addition to that DR.. Babb has required
that they pay 25 cents a COW for regis
tration fees. This 70 cents Is called
clerical money Now DR.. Babb haSn't
been in the office long enough to at
tend to the registrations for more
than a week and the people who have
cows and who are willing to pay for
their registration have to come to the
citv three or four times before they
can find the doctor in
On his office door DR.. Babb has q
| sign-"Office hours from 10 a. m. until
| - M" But the city officials complain
| that he isn't there.
| None of the other city hall officers
| want the work of registering cows that
! DR.. Babb brought upon himself by in
venting a new ordinance-thus the
| howl.
| Miss Blanch Bates, secretary to
Mayor Billiard, was suggeted as "City
| Milk Maid by Commissioner Holman
| before the city commission-and thu
rest of the commissioners agreed that
| the suggestion was a good one. Miss
| Bates will sit at her desk, hereafter
with a milk tester, milk pail, some
''tuberk" germs and the look of 1
| veterinary all in one pile.
"And we hope said one of the citS
officials to the city hall reporter. that
the story you write about DR.. Babt
| will bring him back to the city hall fol-
a few hours each day. We need his
! smiling cOuntenance.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. GOATS.
Santa Fe Road Was an Issue in Okla
hOma Campaign.

hOma Campaign.
While officials of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railway company say that
they are not in politics, they admit that
the company often is made the goat for
politicians. Down in Oklahoma, for in
stance, the state board of railroad as
SCISSORS assessed the main line of the
Santa Fe at an ayerge OF $4,000 mile.
The Santa Fe claimed that its property
was assessed at a higher valuation than
any other kind of property in Oklahoma.
For answer to this claim, Governor Has
kell and Attorney General West made
affidavit that the Santa Fe property really
was worth $4,000 mile.
late campaign in Oklahoma The Repub-
hcans tried to make it appear that Has
ken and West were 'favoring'' the Santa
Fee, and every Republican paper in the
and West assessed the railroad at 5000
a mile when it was worth, according to
their own affidavits, $4,000
But slight discrepancy in figures never
disturbs Oklahoma politicians. When the
fight came up over a reduction of rates,
the administration forces could not afford
to stand by the $4,000 per mile valuation
that Haskell and West had placed on
the Santa Fe main line, because on such
a valuation the payment of a fair divi-
most of the earnings and make re-
duction of rates confiScatory. For. the
purpose of reducing rates, therefore, At
torney General West testified that the
Santa Fe main line was worth only $4,000
a mile.
That's how the Santa Fe is made the
goat said an official today. ITO meet
three different political emergencies, Ok
laboma officials gave the Santa Fe three
different valuations-$2500O mile, ,00(
mile and $4,000 a mile. The United
States court in Oklahoma lately fixed the
value of the Santa Fe at $1,000 a mile
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
SICK HEADACHES
AND DEBILITY AFFLICTED THIS
KANSAS WOMAN.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills Cured Her
After Other Remedies and Treat
ments Had Been Tried In Vain.


There is no mystery about the fact that
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are both a blood
builder and nerve tonic, nothing un-
recognized by science in the power of
these pills to cure severe nervous dis
orders as well as diseases of the blood
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are a specific
for anHmia, or deficiency of blood
Hence they are remedy for all nervous
diseases which result from, or thrive
under, anamic conditions.
One such trouble is nervous headach,
and the success of the tonic treatment
through the blood is thus described BY
Mrs. Walter Anderson, whose address Is
r. F. D., No. l, Va1eda, Kans. She says
Ever since 1 was a child, I gufferec
with sick headaches and when I was
thirteen years of age had asevere attack
OF infammatory rheumatism in my limbs.
which were terribly swollen. I suffered
intense pain and from that time until
took DIR. Williams Pink Pills suffere,
a general weakness. There was q con
slant pain through my head and never
saw well day. I was weak, generally
run down and had no ambition to work
My blood was thin and I lost in weight
l was tired and languid all of the time
had no appetite and my stomach was
out of order. Whenever was chilled
was troubled with rheumatic pains in my
limbs. was very nervous and was Otter
confined to bed for a week.
1.-THE doctors did not do me particle
of good and they did not seem to know
what allied me. After I had been under
their care for some time, my father decided
to have met DIR. Williams Pink Pills.
could see that they were helping me after
taking few boxes for my strength came
back and my headaches disappeared.
have been in very good health since"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are unequal
ed for the treatment of even the most
severe nervous disorders, such as neu-
ralgia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance
and locomotor ataxia. As tonic for the
blood and nerves they are used every
where with the greatest success, building
up wasted bodies and bringing the glow
of health to pale and sallow cheeks
Our booklet, Diseases of the Blood, :"
will be sent free upon the request of any
sufferer from impure or impoverished
blood.
| DIR. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists, or will be sent, postpaid, on
receipt of price, so cents per box; six
boxes for $3.50, by the DR. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
FOR THE BIG 1911 PURCHASES.
Many Railroads Considering Bids on
Cars and Rails.

Purchases of construction material and
eouipment for 1911 by the railroads is
coming closer to realization but is not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
JOHNSON SAYS GO AHEAD.
State Labor Commissioner Grants Ten
Hour Day on Paving Contract.

Abilene. Kan, Nov. 15.-Mayor Rice
has received letter from Labor Com
missioner Johnson granting the request
of the city for an extension of the
working day for men employed on the
paving contract TO ten hours.
The only condition the commissioner
imposes is that the men shall be paid
at the same rate for the extra hours
that prevails for the regular day of
eight hours that is. % cents per hour
The condition has been accepted by the
contractors and the men will work ten
hours hereafter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
FOR WAYS THAT ARE DARK.
Some Kansas Grocers Are Peculiar
Especially on Weights.

John A. Kleinhans, state food in
spector. tells of the conf1scation in
Hiawatha of a scale used in the retail
of groceries at short weight. He
illustrated how the dealer falsifed the
scale by drilling the lead out of the
poise at zero on the scale beam and
put the scale in balance by taking off
the plate and adding extra lead so that
the scale would look to the customer
as though it was in balance.
The poise mu1tiplies its short weight
as it passes its fulcrum at zero until
Dassed along the beam to two pounds
at which point it is off eleven-six-
teenths of an ounce. At one pound the
scale is off seven-sixte enthS of an
ounce.
Two hound weights used on the scale
were off ten-sixteenths of an ounce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15

yet an accomplished fact. A number of
the roads are considering purchases and
several have asked for bias on cars and
rails. A few have made small purchases
The steel mills have opened books for
orders. In the plans for purchase that a.
number of the roads have made all-steel
cars constitute big item The roads are
adopting the all-steel cars for both passen-
ger and freight traffic, and next year
will show a big jump in the all-steel
trains being operated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
Trenton Made a Good Gain.

J., has a population of 96,S15 inhabit-
ants, according to the thirteenth cen
sus statistics made public. This is an
increase of 23,5O8, or 32.1 per cent
over 73,308 in 1900.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1910-04-15

The petition tor a steel bridge in
Lawrence Twp. on the section line be-
tween section three and section ten,
On motion was granted a steel or con-
crete bridge 20 ft. long, II fl. high and
l6 #. vide
Motion made that the land in class
A be raised to $3.50 per acre and class
b be left the same S7.3o and class G
be lowered to 5000.
Voting for the motion r. Udseth and
Peter Moe. voting against, G. A.
Vriem, NJ. l.. Sateren and Harry Gi'an-
bois. Motion lost.
Motion made and seconded that the
classification of the land be left the
same as 1909 which was: class a 50 40
class b 81 80, class G SIS 80. Voting
for Nesser. Nreim s;ateren. Granbois
and Moe, voting against said motion
MIR. Udseth.
The petition from Lake and Lee
townships asking for an iron bridge
20 #. long, SIT. high, l6 it, wide. On
motion was granted steel or concrete
bridge.
Motion made and seconded; that the
petition asking for an appropriation of
81, 900 for the grade west of White
Rock village. Granted.
The petition of the land owners west
OF the Chicago. Milwaukee and ST.
Paul Railroad Cos right of way in Lee
township and which lands were assess
ed for the construction of the Lake and
Lee ditch: now asks the Honorable
board of county commissioners to re-
quire the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad company to construct an
open bridge in lieu of the culvert at the
point where the ditch crosses the said
right-of-way.
On motion made and seconded. pc
tion was referred to the States Attor-
ney to take the necessary steps for
getting the relief prayed. Motion
carried The commissioners drew two
hundred names for the use Of the
Clerk of Courts in drawing the jury
for the May term of Court.
The Board inspected the jail and
court house and found the same to be
in fairly good condition.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1910-04-15
NOTICE FOR BIDS.
Sisseton. S. D.. April 5. 19.

Sisseton, s. D., April 5, 1910.
The City of Sisseton, the
county seat of Roberts County,
South Dakota, will receive bids
for $25, 300 worth of bonds to
pay off all outstanding indebted
ness. All bids to be sealed and
filed with the city not later than
May 2, 1910. The city reserves
tie right to reject any and all
bids. By order of the Council.
GEO. ADKINS, City Auditor.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1910-04-15

l have gotten up a good collie
remedy and solicit farmers and
horsemen to get a bottle and try
it. 1t will save you a good horse
it given in time. and it is guar
anteed under the pure food and
drug act of June 80, 1906, and is
for sale at the City Drug Store.
DIR. A. H. NYGAARD, Sisseton,
5. u. 11-29-O9
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1910-04-15
Notice

ont neglect an aiIment in
your horses or stock until it is
too late. Almost nine cases out
OF every ten may be cured if a
doctor is called in time. | am at
your service for either night or
day calls. My work speaks for
itself. DR.. A. H. NYGAARD.
4o Sisseton, S. D.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1910-04-15
Farm For Sale

| offer for sale the e1 of
the ne4, sec. 30, twp. 125, rng.
so, township of Easter, Roberts
county. For particulars apply
to John Bonn, 1895 Rhomberg
Ave. Dubuque, Iowa. (4t)
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1910-04-15

Motion made and seconded that they
adjourn to May third, 1910, motion
carried.
Attest:
j. A. Ray, County Auditor
Signed, r.. UDSETH,
Chairman.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1910-04-15
sissetop, S, D, April 9th. 1910

| SissctoD, S, D, April 9th. 1910.
| The board OF county commissioners met as
per adjournment. All members present as on
previous day
Bills were allowed or rejected as follows.
| D. F. Stevens, P. o. box rent, stamps 500 10
| j. H. Lewis stamps. box rent and
court scrlpt........ ................ 60 S.
| Harry Granbois, commissioners ser
I vices and milage. age...,................ % 90
NJ. l.. Sateren, seed oats for poor farm ID 90
| G. a. Vreim, commissioners service
and milage...... .......................... 10 rs
| Ever Larson. manager of the Loor
farm and hired girls wages........... 23j co
j. A. Ray, express, freight stamps and
p o. box rent and eXpences to the
auditors meeting at Pierre. ...... 80 80
Sisseton Mill Light Co., electric light
for court mouse. .........,... ...... 80 30
James Stapleton cleaning cess pool and
hauling asheS for months of Feb
ruary and March .......... ........... IS 25
Sisseton Mill g. Light Co.. feed and
grinding for poor farm asked SIG Is
allowed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. IL 90
o. 7. Axness & Co., coal for poor farm
and sweeping compound for court
house Y ~
Peter Moe. commissioner service and
milage ....... ........................... 900
R, Udseth commissioner services and
mllaRe..... ........... .......... 19 30
Geo. A. Ogle Co.'s aliases of Roberts
County. ................. % OO
NJ. L. Sateren, commissioner services
and m1lage...... ....................... 30
E, ]. Turner. salary for the months OF
Jan, Feb. and March and expences.. 235 60
Chas Hoffman, wolf bounty on one wolf 90
| John Flute 90
| John S.Swanson, criminal work ........ 11O 65
q collecting delinquent
taxes. ....................... IS II
John S. Swanson boarding prisoners. los rs
c. 1. Hougen official printing .......... 21 80
c. c. Knappen and ONCE
| supplies. 4S oU
R. H. Dudley, ofacial printing and Of
Ace supplies. asked So so allowed. 20 90
News Printing Co.. once supplies. 20 rs
American Publishing co. Office supplies 27 Is
Will A, Beach Printing Co.. Office sup.
plies and assessors supplies........... 331 s6
Perkins Bros. Co., books. Office supplies 175 q
A. E Taplin medical attendance coun-
I! ty poOr. Or.................. 90
\ T. W. Cahlll. casket and suit Of clothes
| for a county charge. 18 90
I. Stsdstad, miscellaneous. 575
II I. stads,ad, comfy filing. .......... % IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-16
Origin of the Semaphore.

From tho Strsnd.
From the earliest times and among
savage nations beacon fires and inter-
rupted columns of smoke have been used
to give warning of the approach of an
enemy. or the news of victory or defeat
Signaling by combinations OF flags is
another early method and is still used at
sea
However, il was not until 1895, when
Lord George Murray introduced his sema-
phore system that anything like an eff
cent means of Geographic communication
was established. The admiralty at the
time. seeing the advantages OF such a
system. caused semaphore stations to be
established on all the highest points from
London to Dover Deal and Portsmouth
So effectual was the system that a
message could be. in favorable circum-
stances, transmitted from London to
Deal. Dover or Portsmouth and reply
received back In London in seven and a
half minutes. The operation was per-
formed by three men in each station,
two of whom were on the lookout, while
the third was employed In working the
six shutters which were placed over the
building in two vertical frames in such
a way that sixty-three distinct signals
could be formed,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-16

oereo l'o- Gen. Hernandez stated that
the disaffected district would be flooded
win soldiers and that he intended 10
place guards along the railroad. So that
ne could use II i'm forwarding his troons
since the attack on the train at San An
urea month ago no attempt has been
MADE 10 use the line for military pur-
poses, as the insurrectos threatened i'm
SuEn case to blow up the bridges
me censorship frightened here Monday.
me Associated Press dispatches semi
from Pedernales that night and telling
OF Sundays battle reached Chihuabua
over the railroad telegraph and were de-
livered to the federal line, but fell into
official hands and never saw the light
again.
The account offended. presumably. in
placing the insurrecto loss at ninet cen
whereas the official report says eighty
and i'm stating that 1.-The federal loss rs
said to be considerable
There was no fighting today, aIthou. N
the revolutionists predicted an early at
tack by the federals. II Navarro con
tinues TO await reinforcements and the
insurrectos do not themselves attack ft
will be several days before an engage
ment is fought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-16
MEXICO IS HURRYiNC
SOLDIERS TO JUAREz
RevOIuti0niStS Continue to Ar
rive in the Vicinity of
Cerr0 Priet0.

CHIHUAHUA. Mexico. December IA
uDelayed.-A special train of box cars
was quickly made up here this afternoon
to accommodate 100 soldiers destined fol-
Juarez, just across the Texas line from
I'll PaSo. Some other city i'm Chihua lima
probably is their ultimate destination. As
JuafeZ is quiet
Gen. Hernandez. in an interview today.
stated that Gen. Nayarro's inactivity fol-
lowing the battle of Cerro Prieto last
Sunday was due to his Hernandez
orders that reinforcements be awaited
before pressing the insurrectos further.
AdviceS from Pedernales tonight state
that small attachments of revolutionists
continue to arrive in the vicinity of Cerro
Prieto and Rancho Santiago making good
the insurrecto boast that when the fed
erals again attack it will be against ], 100
men.
Navarro himself expects that the next
engagement will be more serious than
that of last Sunday. Gen. Hernandez de-
MED the story that Navarro executed
thirty alleged anti-re-electionists after
Sundays battle. The story was told, how.
ever, not only among the revolutionists,
but in Navarro's own camp.
Reinforcements Have Arrived.
The reinforcements destined for Cerro
PrietO arrived here today They mum.