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The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1910-04-07
Boldt Again Behind The Bars

On the night of March 10, 1910
a burglary was committed at the
Range Mercantile Company's store
in this city. r. ~ f~#,
The clothing stock of the CON-
pany is kept on the second floor of
the building, the only means of
access being by way of an outside
covered stairway which extends up
the west side of the building to Il
landing and side door.
Some time before the night of
the robbery Elmer Zigler went in
to the barber shop of Gus Robson
one evening, according to Robson's
story, and furnished Robson
enough liquor SO that the barber
became intensely intoxi cate d,
which it might be as well to ex-
plain, is synonmous with pifnicat-
ed, heavily Jagged, soused, and
oreide.
Later in the night Bill Boldt
very kindly consented to act as
maid for the temporary million
aire barber and assisted him in To-
eating his virtuous couch as it
swung round its orbit.
During the melee Gus or Bill or
somebody decided to put the Unit.
ed States Treasury out of business
by tearing up all the currency in
existence, and started on one dol
lar bill.
When Gus swept out and cleaned
up the mess next morning he dis
covered one half of that dollar on
the floor.
Don't lose interest, dear reader
we will return to the burglary
presently III our next chapter.
Gus turned his half dollar(which
was the first half dollar he had ever
had in his possession which was
not worth fifty cents) over I'd the
Stock Growers Bank for redemp.
ton and it was promptly redsemed.
/ On the same morning Gus found
his purse on small stand in the
shop, the purse being empty when
discovered.
A few days later Bill Boldt fash
ed a piece of money" ina Pierre
restaurant, and it proved to be a
piece of a one dollar bill.
He later exhibited the same half
dollar in the Fort Pierre Restau-
rant and asked the night man,
Percy Sutley, what it was worth.
Percy advised him to take it to the
bank and have it redeemed.
On the night of the burglary
Ziegler and Boldt were seen at q
late hour lettering about the Range
Mercantile Co building. Atabout
$3.50 a. m. Percy Sutley saw them
come from between that store and
Fischer Bros, and when asked
where they had been their reply
was that they had been down to
Browns barn.
On the morning of March 11th
Louis Chase, an employe at the
store, found half of a one dollar
bill in pile of shavings on the up
stairs landing, the door having had
a hole whitfield in it with = jack
knife to enable one of the burglars
to insert his hand and operate the
spring lock from the inside.
DO you begin to see the inward
ness of the little Sherlock Holmes
story we are developingl Could
our old college chum, DR.. A, Co.
nan Doyle, do it any better9
When Percy Sutley was asked in
Justice McGuire's court to describe
the piece of money Bill Boldt
had shown him in the restaurant.
he said that. looking at the dark
side ofthe bill upon which its num-
Der is printed, Bills half dollar
was the left hand half, aud that it
was torn nearly straight ocross with
the exception of . jagged place at
the t0n
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
DAILY
BOOK REVIEW
OUR GARDEN FLOWERS.

Many OF us would like to take a little
journey into the garden; many OF US do,
but although we satisfy what stevenson
calls the hungry curiosity OF the eye"
and find delight In the brilliance and the
fragrance of the blooms. it is without un-
Outstanding them. ''Our Garden Flowers:
A Popular Study Of Their Native Lands.
Their Life Histories, and Their Structural
Affiliations by Harriet L. Keller, is
volume designed TO make US all better
acquainted with the. inhabitants OF our
gardens and by better knowledge come to
a fuller understanding and appreciation
Of them.
1t has been the aim OF this author to
make her book fairly complete study
OF all the annual and perennial towering
herbs commonly found in a hardy gar
den, but II Is by no means intended as a
catalogue. Among the many species OF a
genus ii has been found necessary. In
many cases, to select but one for descrip-
ton. AS a rule the choice has been either
the typical form. or the one longest in
cultivation or the greatest favorite. AS
a result the volume is a compact and use
full compendium that is easy of reference,
and should be most handy 20 use. 1t has
its value increased by eighty illustrations
from photographs. reproduced IN half-tone,
and by 1856 Illustrations from drawings.
II is volume that every lover Of a gar
den would like to have In his library.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
Baseball Pensions Now.

The latest thing in 'parentalism' is the
proposition 10 establish a pension fund
for disabled baseball players. The sub
ject comes up over the news that Pop
Arson, one of the former chiefs of the
baseball clan. is out Of money and out
OF work The fact that he has spent a
fortune since he left the diamond does
not seem to make much difference. He is
in need; he was once a popular idol-let' s
pension him.
The need of Pop" Arson, has, how
ever, set the big leaders of baseball TO
thinking. and they are agreed that some
plan must be devised by which baseball
players may be kept from becoming a
charge on the public after their useful
ness has ceased. Ban Johnson proposes
that once year each club In the two
big leagues shall designate one game on
its regular schedule for the benefit OF a
pension fund. the gross receipts TO be
used for the benefit Of impecunious and
disabled players.
That sounds all right as a remedy but
we cannot help thinking that there
should be no need for such a remedy.
Baseball players during the heyday Of
their usefulness receive salaries that are
good bit above those enjoyed by or
binary mortals. and there is nothing in
their calling that should prevent them
from taking the ordinary precautions the
rest of US have TO take against penury
and want in old age. If, as a body. base
ball players viii not care for themselves
by ordinary thrift. then It might well be
the function OF the leaders of the two big
leagues-seeing that impecunious baseball
players cannot add much credit to the
game-to set aside a certain percentage
of the big salaries to form a pension
fund from which they may be cared
for. There is. in many walks of life. too
much reckless living up 10 the last penny
of the income, In the hope that the bur
den of life may at some time be shifted
to other shoulders.
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
An impossible Suggestion.

The Montgomery Advertiser is respon-
sible for the following startling sugges-
ton:
Suppose husbands should go out OF
fashion,
If husbands should go out of fashion,
love would go out of fashion. and then
the world would stop going around!
That. In brief, is what would happen.
One shudders to contemplate in detail
the terrible things that might come TO
pass If husbands should be relegated TO
the background and all but forgotten.
For one thing, June brides would go out
OF fashion along with them. For, as IN
important as the groom is in June we'd
ding. 1t is never a wedding. really and
truly. without him. And If June brides
go out Of fashion. along. too. will go
babbIing brooks and shady hooks. and
moons serene and mellow. What would
be the use bothering with those stage
properties and effects if the leading man
were scheduled for a place in the male
chorus only?
II husbands go out of fashion. wives
viii follow. 1t may not seem gallant TO
say it. but It is true. After ALL hus-
band affords a wife more innocent
amusement than anything else she can
midas she herself always has admitted.
eventually. She could not get along
without lin very satisfactorily; with all
his faults. she adores him still. If he
makes a success. she knows she is, really.
responsible for it: If he makes a failure.
she knows somebody else than he was
TO blame-bless heri
But husbands are not going out Of
fashloni Indeed. If we had only thought
to mention that in the first place. we
might have saved ourselves the distress
OF even one untoward thought IN this
connection. Husbands have stood the test
Of the centuries-and stood it fairly we'll,
moreover. They are not all they should
be sometlmes-oh, WELL Ofttimes. If you
must-but nothing better has yet been
discovered to take their place.
Husbands are here to stay!
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
King Georges Home Secretary.

There is evidently prejudice on the part
of the newspaper writer's who chronicle
events in London against Winston
Churchill. who is described as more
personally overbearing than ever since
his elevation to the home secretaryship.
II is related that at a recent interview
between Mr.. Churchill ana King George.
Churchill forgot himself and broke in
on some of the Kings remarks with the
offending statement, 7 do not agree with
your majesty" The account describes
the King as being dumfounded at the
interruption, and ordering Churchill to
leave his presence; whereupon Churchill,
''abashed and crestfallen, skunk dejectedly
away" to be seen later about the Par
namentary Hobbies with rounded Shout
ders and head down like a prematurely
aged man."
Perhaps II VIII be safe to discount this
description of the royal anger and its
demoralizing effect on the dejectedly
Sinking Churchill. We in this country
know so little concerning the acute eti-
quette OF royalty that it is difficult to
understand why an adviser Of the King
should not be able to converse with the
head Of the government as man TO man
II cannot be that in this enlightened age
there is anything more than fiction in
the adage that kings can do no wrong
convenient as that amiable theory may
be. 1t ought TO be possible for the home
secretary of the British government to
correct the King when he gees wrong. or
to disagree with him when it is consid-
cred necessary, without striking the King
dumb from the shock or leading TO any
detection or bringing on premature old
age on the part OF the transTesssr. We
would be inclined to have a more fav-
orable opinion Of King George II It were
known that he made not too fine a point
Of the etiquette Of his exalted state in
his routine transactions with his advisers.
1t would undoubtedly be fair to King
George TO form no hasty judgment of his
good sense, or lack of it. from any such
source as the writer's who entertain q
dislike for Winston Churchill
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
The War Correspondent.

It is very evident that the picturesque
and sometimes well-rewarded occupation
OF the war correspondent is gone, probably
forever, During the Russo-Japanese war
we had a striking instance of how use
less duly accredited war correspondents
can be made. and the example set by
the japanese military officials is sure to
be needed In the next war. no matter be-
tween what nations. Russia, however.
was hardly backward of Japan in the
stringency Of regulations imposed on war
correspondents. and the whole subject
has been revived by a report made re-
Gently to the Car by Gen. Kuropatkin.
This gentleman. who Jared so Ill at the
battle Of Mukden. is in favor of the full
est publicity after war is over, but he
believes that while the fighting is going
on the newspapers should be compelled
TO refrain from comment or criticism.
OF course, there is no way to compel
newspapers not to give the news of
a battle or tell how it was fought-if
they can get the news. If the papers of
ones own country do not give it, the
papers of the enemy may. So the only
safeguard the army can throw about it.
self to prevent the news Of its move
ments getting out is to bar the camp
absolutely to members Of the press
Whether this can be done or not re-
mains to be seen. The Japanese sue
ceeded pretty well in doing It. but they
used diplomacy and tricks rather than
force; and even then they were not as
successful as they might have wished.
The Russians were little more liberal;
and. after all. the war correspondents
did them no harm
II seems probable that If there are TO
be war correspondents in the future they
will have to be men Of the earlier type
of correspondent; men who can get along
In the field without insisting on the CON-
forts of army officers; without being pro-
yided with passes, protection, ard food.
To report an event. one does not need
If he be a good reporter-to be on the
inside. It might make for better and
less hanlpered work ali around IL he were
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
No Color Line Permissible Here,

From the Atlanta Constitution
Describing a recently adjourned session
Of the Superior Court OF Sumter County.
a dispatch 10 the Constitution from
Americas reports that many negro muir
derers and pistol-toters were sent to the
penitentary and changing. several re-
celving life sentences.
We assume, and hope. the same sum-
mary justice was dealt white pistol
toters.
This is one evil in which the color line
most decidedly does not figure.
II Is just as reprehensible for the white
man to carry a weapon concealed IN
violation Of law as II is for the negro
70 do the same thing
The negro's offenss might be at least
extenuated on the plea Of ignorance and
that "aIl-around eussedness' applying TO
the embryo-criminal of the race
The white man knows. or ought 70
know. better. He has the advantage, as
a rule, Of refining influences and asso-
Citations, with generations OF respect for
law back OF him.
At the same time. the promptness
shown in handling this species OF law
breaking in Sumter is distinctly encour-
aging.
Applying the moral impartially to both
races, il should prove an excellent lesson.
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
PIscAToRTAL.

When the split bamboo is vanished and the ny
books filed with flies.
When the east winds have quit blowing and no
clouds are IN the skies.
When the rubber boots mended and there's
something 10 the flask,
In the language OF Ike Walton. what remains for
man to ask
When the trOutlet in the sreamlet the booklet
floating by,
And the manlet's is bistered as the hot sun
mounts hghi
When the lunchlet oT clifaes quite By accident is
lost
Think 70 not that hopes Of triumph are behind the
angler tossed.
shu those hopes viii spring triumphant meath the
fishers rain-soaked vest
Though he turns home empty-handed when the sun
dies ia the vest;
stl he decorsss the bushes with his choicest brand
Of flies,
For the fishing microbes in him. and 1t bIdes there
Till he dieA
-psuvez RspshHeAa.
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
A FaithfuI lighthouse Keeper.

Faithful Lighthouse keeper
From the Los Angeles Times.
Miss Laura A. Hecox, who for twenty
seven years has tended the light of the
Santa Cruz lighthouse, has but recently
returned 10 her post from the last of the
six vacations she has taken during that
period. Since 1881 this woman has had
absolute charge OF the light, and In all
that time it has never gone out during
the night. Miss Hecox followed her
father in charge OF the light. He was a
retired clergyman. who took the work
when his health broke down. With him
went his wife and girl. During the thir
teen years her father was in charge Miss
Hecox was practically the real mistress
of the lighthouse. When his death came
she applied for and was given the work.
Since that time she has been steadily at
it, cleaning. tending, and watching the
light, that 1t may be never dimmed. Then
her mother died in the old lighthouse,
and the woman was left alone with her
work. She loves IT, and is never satisfied
il she Is away from il for long. Her
only recreation IS an occasional visit to
her brother at Oceanside, and gathering
in sea specimens, a collection OF which
she recently gave to the Santa Cruz
Library. Fortunately for Miss Hecox.
the Santa Cruz lighthouse is not built on
a rock bound coast. but Is powered
among trees. The light is a modern one,
OF twelve candlepower. multiplied by re-
heotors 10 something like 665 eapdlepower.
During the twenty-seven years IL has
been tended by Miss Hecox no ship has
been wrecked on the Santa Cruz coast.
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
THE PEACH KING.
Revolution in Orchards Accom-
pIished by a Yankee.

Revolution in Orchards Accom-
pIished by "a Yankee.
Down in the State of Georgia they
have peach orchards where you can walk
a mile in straight line and not get be-
yond the end Of a row Of peach trees.
After the civil war any one could 90
through the same country and see moth
ing but cornfelds. Now more peaches
are produced on Georgia soil than in
any other portion of the United States
with the possible exception Of California
This revolution in horticulture. accord
ing 10 the BoOkkeeper, was brought
about by a Connecticut Yankee J. II.
Hale as a boy began his start in life by
carrying fruit and truck in baskets 10
Hartford, Conn, and selling IL from
house TO house. He finally accumulated
enough money to plant a little orchard
of his own In the suburbs OF Hartford on
ground that people said was unfit for any
crop
Hale thought differently, and when his
orchard grew from an acre TO over 100
acres, and his income from the peaches
20 thousands OF dollars a year. they real
lied that they had been mistaken. One
winter Mr.. Hale thought he would take q
Southern trip. and. going through Geor-
gia, he noticed the red clay soil.
He made up his mind that here would
be good place to grow peaches, al
though not tree was in sight of the 10
cality he visited nor were there any for
fifty miles around. The land was cheap
and he bought several hundred acres.
Then he took two or three men from his
New England orchard. put them on the
place. and planted the trees.
To-day he can count $4,000 trees in his
Southern orchards, to say nothing of
those In Connecticut. Not merely car
loads. but trainloads are sent to the
Northern market as a days shipment in
the season, while sometimes 800 negro
laborers are picking, boxing, and loading
the fruit
Peach growers from all over the coun-
try followed Mr.. Hale TO Georgia and
other Southern States. and orchards In
the vicinity Of his can be seen ranging
from 100000 to 10000 trees. from which
the harvest goes not only to the North,
but across the ocean to Europe.
This is why the Connecticut Yankee is
now called the peach king; he owns more
trees of this variety than any other
American and has made over 81. 100000 in
the last twenty years simply because he
knows how TO raise the fruit
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14

tle nation, GfeT1EQTt.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
To-day is the ls3d birthday anniversary
OF the American flag. The date, June Il.
III, has been accurately fixed by the ac-
ton of the Continental Congress as re-
corded in the Journal of Congress. That
body was then sitting in Philadelphia,
having moved over March from little
over two months sitting in Baltimore.
The Stars and Stripes first appeared
floating over the headquarters of Gen.
George Washington. on the heights Of
Cambridge, near Boston, on January !.
1T76 Thus the Father Of our Country
promulgated his individual declaration
Of independence. When the British sol
d:ers saw the flag they imagined it was
a token of submission, but very soon dis
covered their error.
The British Register Of 1T7s says: The
rebels burned the Kings speech, and
changed their coiors from a plain red
ground to a flag with thirteen stripes, as
a symbol of their union of thirteen colo
MES"
From January 2, I77s, TO July 4, 177s, six
months elapsed before the PRONUNCIATION
of the Declaration Of Independence Of
the UnItel States. Moreover, almost an
other year elapsed before the national
emblem was officially sent upon its mis-
sion of universal love and liberty. Thus
Washington was one year and half In
advance of Congress in finging this
'Old Glory Of ours 10 the free air OF
heaven.
The official order of Congress on June
IA read as follows: Resolved, That the
flag of the thirteen United States shall
be OF thirteen stripes OF alternate red and
white, with a union Of thirteen stars Of
white in a blue field, representing new
constellation"
The report OF the committee who de-
signed and passed upon the flag reads as
follows THE stars Of the flag represent
a new constellation OF States rising IN
the West. The idea Is taken from the
great constellation Lyra. which. in the
hands of Orpheus. signifies harmony.
The blue In the field is taken from the
edge of the covenanter's banner, in Scot
land. significant Of a league covenant of
the United States against oppression.
The stars are disposed in a circle, SYM
bolizing the perpetuity OF the Union: the
ring, signifying eternity. The thirteen
stripes with the thirteen stars show the
number es the united colonies. and de-
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
Aviation PeriIs.

From the New Haven Register.
II has been supposed, and with some
little reason, that the airship, at least,
would be immune from Embarrassing
accidents. IL seemed prudent 10 expect
that the train would not run over" the
airship, but that the airship would ''run
over the train, and with no damage 10
either Yet here. thus early in the game,
we have an aeroplane wrecked by a
train in Kansas. The immediate cause
OF the accident Is OF interest. The avia-
tor was flying above the track when a
fast train passed beneath him, and the
strong suction OF the train drew him
down and smashed his flying machine.
You, too. aviators. Took out for the en-
CINE when the bell rings"
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
Kissing Is Ancient.

From the Kansas City Star.
Brantome's memoirs contribute a pleas
ing anecdote concerning kissing customs
OF the sixteenth century. The Cardinal
OF Lorraine went TO pay his respects TO
the Duchess of Savoy, and It Is recorded
as typical of her haughtiness that she
held out her hand for him to kiss. The
cardinal. furious at the affront, seized
her by the head and administered two
or three kisses. exelaiming: 81 kiss the
queen, my mistress, who is the greatest
queen in the world. and am not to kiss
you, who are only dirty little duchess
(une petite duchesse croiteD"
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
Music Hath Charms.

From the Atlanta Journal.
Wherever you go over the State Of
Georgia you will find the people interest
ed In music The humblest home, II Il
cannot afford piano, has its organ, and
II there IS a music teacher within reach.
the poorest mothers will send their
daughters to her 10 take lessons. This
shows very plainly what the people want
they want music in their homes. The
state should have an institute Of music
so that this widespread need could be
satisfied. Free instruction in music 10
two students in each district who could
afterward teach in the communities from
whence they came. would mean more TO
the State than two representatives TO the
legislature.
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
TUESDAY. JUNE Il. 1910.
Let Your Paper Come After You

Washingtonians who leave the
city. either for a short or long
stay-whether they go to mountain
or 5eash0re, or even across the sea
should not fail to order The
Washington Herald sent TO them
by mail II will come regularly,
and the addresses will be changed
as often as desired. It is the home
news you will want while away
from home. Telephone Main $500.
giving old ard new address.
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
Airy. Fairy Lillian

From the Houston Post.
The Washington Herald makes the out
rageous suggestion that Nat Goodwin
may marry Lillian Russell next. We in
dignantly repudiate it, If we can pre-
vent it, the charming Miss Russell shan
never be tied up with a reprobate like
Nat From her fiat IN New York Miss
Russell can look to the southwest and
exclaim: Beyond the Alleghenies lies
Texas" and the gates of TEXAS are
swinging outward for Miss Russell
The Washington herald., 1910-06-14

free lance. attached to neither army,
and free 70 report Just what he saw. 1t
is plain that the old days are gone. and
the war correspondents are not likely to
be allowed with the army of any nation
Ia time Of war.
But somehow or another. the press will
get its news. We may be sure.