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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-15
Proposed Amendment to the Cunstitu-
tl0n OF the SiMle of Snmlh DnknLn

'oh VI thc Hlute OF SOUih lJakOta
=, TO the people Of the state Of South
The eleventh legislative assembly of
the state of South Dakota, begun and
day of january, 1903, and concluded
on the ffth day of March. 1909, pro-
posed the following amendment to the
comstitution of the state viz:
of the state of South Dakota be
amended so as to read as follows:
Article xI
Section 1. Tho legislature shall
provide for an annual tax, sufficient 10
defray the estimated ordinary ex-
penses of the state for each year, not
40 exceed in any one year two mills
on each dollar of the assessed valua-
state. to be asCertained by the last as
purposes.
And whenever II shall appear that
such ordinary expenses shall exceed
the income of the state for such year.
the legislature shall provide for the
leyying of a tax for the ensuing year
come to pay the deficiency together
with the estimated expenses OF the
year in which such levy is made. And
debt, the legislature shall provide for
levying tax annually, sufficient to
pay the annual interest and the prin-
cipal Of such debt within ten years
from the final passage of the law
creating the debt. Provided, that the
annual tax for the payment OF
the interest and principal of the
public debt shall not exceed in
any one year two mills on each dollar
OF the assessed valuation of all tax
able property in the state, as ascer-
tanned by the last assessment made
for state and county purposes.
Section 2: All taxes shall be uni
form on all property and shall be
poses only. The value of each subject
of taxation shall be so fixed in money
that every person and corporation
shall pay a tax in proportion to the
value or his or its property. Fran
chises and licenses to do business in
comes, shall be considered in taxing
corporations and the power to tax cor
porate property shall not be Surren-
dered by any contract or grant to
which the state shall be party. The
legislature shall provide by general
taxes on all corporate property, as
near as may be, by the same methods
as are provided for assessing and
levying of taxes on individual proper
ty.
Section 8. The legislature shall pro-
Investments in bonds, stocks. joint
stock companies, or otherwise; and
also for taxing the notes and bills dis
counted or purchased moneys loaned,
and all other property, effects or dues
of every description, of all banks and
ployed In banking shall always be SUBJ
Ject to taxation equal to that imposed
on the property of individuals.
Section 4. The legislature may clas-
SHY Inheritance, devises, legacies and
oequests and gifts In view OF death In
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-15

the words: Shall the above amend
ment to the constitution in relation
to the salary of the attorney general
by the Legislature at its biennial ses-
sion be approved and ratified?" Im-
mediately to the left of which shall be
each preceded by a square in which
the elector can place cross to indi-
cate his vote. Electors desiring to
vote Yes" will place "a cross before
the word Yes" and those desiring TO
vote No" will place a cross before the
word No"
25th day of July, A. ID. 1910.
SAMUEL G. POLICY
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
SHIPLESS CAPTAINS.
-Four Shippers. Victims Of
Wrecks. Come to Port.

The steamship BerInudan brought 10 port
Yesterday seven captains. one of them
being Captain Frazer. who was in COM
mand of the vessel. She also had on board
remnants of the crews of four sailing ves-
sells that had been blown out of existence
by the recent storms that have howled up
and down the Atlantic Coast. For the last
five weeks Bermuda has been a haven for
shpwrecked sailormen and storm tossed
steamers whose coal supplies had become
depleted while fighting the gales.
On board were twenty-seven sailors from
the American schooner Abel c. Buckley.
the Norwegian bark Crown. the Italian
bark F'iIipo Denegri and the American
schooner George l.. Drake. Besides the
shippers of these four sailing vessels the
Bermudian had on board Captain Witt
formerly of the President Grant, who will
command the Hamburg-America steamship
Oceania during her cruises to Bermuda. He
made the trip to become familiar with the
course TO the Bermudas. Captain Lubutat,
of the Fabre liner Provincial who was in
jured when his vessel put into Bermuda for
coal and who remained there for treatment,
also was passenger on the Bermudian.
The stories of how the four vessels went
to pieces during the holiday gales were told
by the first instalments of the crews, who
arrived here on a previous trip of the Ber-
mudian,
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
PATENT SQUABBLE.
Curtiss Erpects Flights to
Haze Inn DOrtant BEARING.

Los Angeles, Jan. 10.-Glenn H. Cur
tiss to-day said that his flights in the
international aviation meet here would
have an important bearing on his pat
ent controversy with the Wrights, and
in his opinion, would end the litigation
which nearly prevented the holding of
the aviation contests.
''In the arguments of their lawyers the
Wrights proved theoretically to Judge
Hazel, in the federal court of New York
State, that my machines depend on the
vertical rudder to maintain equilibri-
um,' said Curtiss. II will demonstrate
by actual flight that they do not That
will end the action for injunction, for
the Wrights' patents hinge on what is
called the warping surface Their ma
chimes have to depend on the vertical
rudder to help them maintain their bal
ance. The warping surface of the planes
give the machines a turning tendency
which the rudder has to overcome. The
rudders on the Curtiss machines have no
such function. This meet will prove
what 1 say. We are going to take the
decision OF the judges before the
courts
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
HOUSE TO ELECT. SIX.
Senate adopts Baliinger-Pin-
chot inquiry Resolution.
GFrom The Tribune Bureau. !

Washington. Jan. 10. - The Ballihger-
Pinchot investigation will be conducted by
q committee consisting of six Senators, TO
be appointed by the Vice President, and six
Representatives, 20 be elected by the House.
IL Is probable that the Republican members
OF the House committee will be nornina ted
In caucus TO be held this week. and 10
which all members of the majority party
will be invited. although some of the IN
sUrgents have announced their purpose not
10 attend
twas expected that there would be con-
siderable debate in the Senate over the
mode of procedure in the investigation, but
Jne jones resolution, modified by the
Committee on Public Lands, went through
With no opposition and without rollcan =
Tho resolution will now go back 10 the
House for concurrence in the Senate amend
menfs. II is not thought there will be seri-
Gus opposition 10 lie notifications made in
the Senate, as they do not limit the scope
OF the inquiry 1t is not impossible that
the House will concur in the Senate amend
ments tomorrow and that the resolution
will go 10 the President for signature on
Wednesday.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
HUB CAMPAIGN ENDS.
Fight apparently Betsceen
StOrrOso and Fitzgerald.

Boston, Jan. 1o.-With a clear under
standing of the issues involved, which are
almost wholly personal, the voters of Bos-
ton TO the number OF probably one hundred
thousand will decide tomorrow on the
question of placing the administration of
the city i'm the hands of one of the four
we'll known candidates for the next four
years. under the provisions of the new
city charter
Mayor Hubbard announced this afternoon
that he had instituted a $4,000 libel suit
against Golfers Weekly" on account OF
an article entitled "Tammanyizing Bos-
ton,' in which he is charged with having
formed a league with politician at the
apparent order of the Republican Senators.
Mayor Hibbard repeats a statement that
he has made no alliance with former
Mayor Fitzgerald.
Close political observers and the betting
public agreed to-day that the fight to-
morrow will be between Storrow and Fitz-
gerald. Even money between the two
found many takers to-day. >
A Fitzgerald parade caught up with an
automobile carrying Mr.. Storrow tonight,
and the Fitzgerald paraders. it is said, at
tackled the Storrow automobile with lighted
torches. One or two of the occupants OF
the car were said to have been slightly
bruised, but Mr. Storrow escaped Injury
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
PAULHAN FLIES
Continued from first page.

chine Once he headed directly for the
grandstand. waiting until almost upon IL
before pointing the bow of his craft up
ward. and skimming just above the
crowd.
UP FOUR HUNDRED FEET.
On his second flight he remained up
ten minutes and two seconds, reaching
height of four hundred feet and travel
ling about four and a half miles. In
descending he just cleared the top of MS
own tent from the rear, alighting a short
distance from the entrance
on his third flight Paulhan arose d.
rectly in front of the gTandstand, passed
over it and turned back to the official
course, where he rose to a height OF
three hundred feet. Covering the mile
and a half in two minutes and fifty-elght
seconds, he took another shoot into the
country, came back, went around the
course second time, and had started
on his third lap just as Beachey. in his
djrigible, and Charles X. Hamilton, in a
Curtiss monoplane. had made an ascent
and got under full headway The French
aviator fell in behind Hamilton and
until the latter descended after flight
OF four minutes. Then, after completing
his third lap, Paulhan made a series OF
graceful turns in the middle of the field
and repeatedly sailed low over the
grandstand. This flight lasted twenty
nine minutes and two seconds.
In the machine in which he made the
worlds speed record of 1912 miles in
10 minutes ) 3-5 seconds. at Rheims,
Glenn II. Curtiss attempted another
flight. He rose to a height of 20 feet in
500 yards flight, when his propeller
broke anG he was compelled to stop
his engine. He landed gracefully
The only accident that in any way
marred the day occurred when the en-
gine on the Gill-Dosch machine was
started, before the biplane had been
taken from the tent, and a bareback
tore out portion of the upper plane.
This slight accident prevented the ma
chine from flying to-day.
Tonight Manager Ferris announced
that Paulhan would attempt to break
the worlds altitude record for heavier
than-air machines tomorrow. The at
tempt will be made in the Farman BIZ
plane used to-day
There is no set programme for any
day except Saturday, when the gov
ernment dirigible. in charge of Lieu
tenant Paul Beck, of the signal corps.
will try night attack on the revenue
cutter Perry. in San Pedro Harbor Any
aviator may go up at any time be-
I Ap7 iy, yln 90
dark.
One feature of the meet will be flights
by Mrs. Paulhap with one of the
Frenchmen who came with her husband.
Like her husband. she speaks no Eng
lish but through an interpreter to-day
she announced her intention of flying
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
AVIATION MEETS.
Committee Selects October for
Catherine Here.

Paris, Jan. 1o.-The meeting Of the In
ternational Aeronsutical Federation to-day
tc arrange dates for carnivals in 1910 de-
veloped contest with the Aero Club of
England, but it finally was agreed that
the season should extend from March to
November, with aviation meets successive
ly at Cannes. Nice, Berlin, Verona, Buda-
pest Rheims, England, Rheims (second
meeting). Brussels. Deauville, Havre, Bor-
dcauX, Milan and the United States.
The American meetings. it is announced.
will be held October Is TO 90. the inter-
national balloon cup contest being fixed
for October %. November . has been set
for the beginning of aviation week The
federation decided that it did not have the
power to prevent the holding of meets for
prizes under $4,000 by private organiza-
tions. to which prominent aviators are
tempted by large fees, but it retains the
privilege of disqualifying avia tors who
take part.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
ELECTION ORDERED
BRITISH CAMPAIGN
NE4RS ITS CLIMAX.
Umonists More Enthusiastic
and Liberals Less BodstfW.

fBy French Cable to The Tribune.l
London, Jan. 10--The.. dissolution OF
Parliament, which has been forced by
the peeys in violation of constitutional
usage, was formally carried into effect
to-day by the crown. o.
Wrts were issued for the election Of
new Parliament with the same procedure
which. would have been followed if the
government had been upset by a vote OF
the House of Commons instead of having
the supplies withheld by the House of
Lords.
The canvass is being conducted with
increased energy and confidence by the
Unionists. John r. Cousins. the organ
izer of the Tariff Reform League, who is
speaking every night in the south and
west Of England before large and en-
thusia site audiences. told me to-day that
the Unionists would win twenty seats in
Lancashire through the revival of the
Home Rule issue. and have an adequate
majority in the next Commons.
Yorkshire is our weak point" he said.
but We are cantering in
The contrast between existing condi-
tions and the apathy and indifference of
the party in 1906 impresses the pioneer
tariff reformers like Mr. Cousins and
tends to make them extremely optimistic.
The Radicals, with equal facilities for
obtaining information at their party
headquarters, are less boastful than they
were a fortnight ago
Mr.. Lloyd-George made tonight at
Falmouth another bitter attack upon the
Lords, asserting that they used language
outside the reach of the stable and were
lowering the controversial methods Of
the country. He had apparently forgot
ten his own offensive Sarcasms about
''the mongrel aristocrats."
Mr.. Churchill, who has begun second
tour from Birmingham to Derby, Glas-
gov and Dundee is a safer and more
Useful canvasser than his brilliant col
league, who is repelling the support of
moderate men throughout the country.
Mr.. Balfour delivered tonight at Aber-
deem closely reasoned speech against
Home Rule, contending that Ireland was
too near and had been borrowing too
much money from England for land pur-
chase purposes to have government
along colonial lines. His most effective
analogies were taken from the German
states, which had drawn together instead
of separating, and from the British col
onies which were waiting anxiously for
some practical scheme for imperial fed
Grafton.
Mr.. Churchilrs main theme in invad-
ing Birmingham was the House of Lords
assault upon representative government
and popular rights. 1t was a fearless
and outspoken exposition of the increas-
ingly democratic character of the House
OF Commons. /. n. F.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
EUGENE ZIMMERMAN SUED.
Duchess of Manchester Father De-
fendant in $4,000 Action.

For two days the action brought by
William Duryea against Eugene Zin1msr-
man. father of the Duchess of Manchester:
William c. Rogers. NJ Coehrsne Armour.
William C. Heron. Daniel 3. MeachsHl
and Adelaide H Brown. as executrix OF
the estate of Archer Brown. 10 recover
see. GOO invested in certain stocks alleged
10 he worthless. has been on trial before
Justice NJ. j. Keogh. in the Supreme Court.
at White Plains 1t will be continued to-
dsy. The plaintiff is represented By Rob-
bert B Honeyman. Of Manhattan. Wills
Mr.. Zimmerman has Rush Taggart as his
attorney. Mr. Zimmerman, who has besa
in court each day. denies the charges.
The complaint alleges among other
things that on or about October 19 lsa.
zimmerman and the other members OF
Rogers Brown & Co organized the Ala
hama and Georgia Iron Company. With
capitai of st,S0O.000. 1t was also alleged
that the statement contained in the pros
pectus that the Cherokee Iron COMPANY.
one of the properties acquired. had an
actual cash outlay of ssoe.eoe was false
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
FIND ELOPING PAIR
Continued from first page.

Please. papa dear, take Tootsey fmes1-
ing her pet fox terrierl and always keep
her with you.
Be kind and good to her and take the
best care of her. Now. please grant me
that one favor. Please forgive me and try
10 think kindly of me. and also ask Mrs
Cohen to please forgive me, as / did not
realize what trouble this thing would
bring when I coaxed her husband to go
away with me. Please do not prosecute
Fred BE thankful TO him for the
beautiful way he has treated your
daughter. 1t was all my fault. Good
ROBERTA.
p S.-Don't forget about Tootsey.
When asked by the police whether she
still held a desire to kill herself the peni-
tent Miss Dejanon cried bitterly and said
between sobs:
mo, / don't want to die now. I want
to go to New York TO live with papa or
back TO my grandfather i'm Philadelphia.
/ will go to the school at Bryn Mawr. or
any other place they want to send me.
Oh, / am so glad you have found me.
am so glad: 1 can't tell you how glad
am I don't want to be a runaway any
more
Cohen told the police that he first met
Miss Dejanon at the Bellevue-Stratford
last October, when she went there to
live with her mother After her mother
died. he said, Miss Dejanon called to see
him frequently, asking for advice. She
seemed to be melancholy and told him
she did not want to go away to school.
On December 10. Cohen said, Miss De-
janon asked him to go with her. After
his letter to her of December IA she
met him again and arranged to meet
him on December 81 On this occasion
she wept and he consented to go with
her.
on December % she bought a cheap
brown dress. which hung just below
her knees, and some other clothing. She
let down her hair and hung it in two
braids to make herself look younger.
and he boarded train for New York
with her. Everywhere they went. he
said. they read of their escapade in the
newspapers.
II am sorry for what I have DONE"
said Cohen. but her pleadings were
irresistible, and I swear I have not
harmed the child"
When the effects of Miss Dejanon
were examined tonight forty-tvo letters
were found. Forty of them were written
to Cohen and two to her father. one on
January 5 and the other on January 5.
In the former she said:
This is to certify that |, Roberta De-
janon. have left my home at the Belle
vue-Stratford. in Philadelphia. of my
own accord: and / also acknowledge that
/ asked Fred Cohen to take me with
him, and after refusing several times
he finally consented to take me as his
daughter. To-day is the sixth day since
leaving home, and Fred has treated me
just as if | was his own daughter This
will exonerate Fred Cohen from any
blame whatsoever. as it was / who
begged him to take me away.
In her letter OF January S she wrote:
II is now eight days since / left home.
and L am writing this of my own free
Will in case we should get caught. for I
will very probably end my life If that
occurs L want to free Fred Cohen from
all blame. Every day since we left
Philadelphia he has repeatedly requested
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
SAYS IT WOULD FREE MORSE.
Judge Lewis, of Buffalo, Opposes Pro-
posed Federal Probation Law.

tBy Telegraph to The Tribune.l
Buffalo, Jan. 10.-zJudge George A. Lewis
a member of the State Probation Commits
sion. has voiced strong opposition to the
proposed new federal probation law, the
bill which has been introduced by Senator
Bacon.
Il don't believe Congress will have nerve
enough to pass the BILL" he said. Under
its provisions. if enacted into law, it would
permit Charles w. Morse to regain his lib
erty in one year from now, although he
has been sentenced to fifteen years i'm
prisonment. | can't imagine why this bill
should have been introduced. If it becomes
law it will make it possible for the
board, consisting of the prison warden
physician and any travelling agent of the
Attorney General, it might be his stenog-
rapher, to liberate every federal prisoner
who has served year. irrespective of the
term of his sentence or the nature of his
offence"
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11

me to go home. but positively refused
self il he left me alone.
That the girl was OF a poetic nature
was demonstrated by several rhymed
notes given TO Cohen at the Bsllevue-
Stratford by Miss Dejanon. One she
handed him while he was waiting on ths
table for her in the hotel dining room
was as follows:
Nothing 70 do. Freddy darling
Nothing to do. Vou saw
Let's take a trip on memory snip
Back to the bygone DAYS.
Sail 20 the old Bellevue Stratford-
Anchor outside III. look in and you s.A
There's You and there's me-
4 couple OF kids once more.
Love days love DAYS.
Dear old golden love days
Kissing and huzsins and auarreinns
But always sure to make up right sway.
You we're my king. the waiter man,
vas YOUR bashfal little girl.
You put down on paper Il love you 80
When we were couple OF kids-
In describing her elopement tonight
Miss Dejanon verified what Cohen had
told the police. and added:
when I asked him TO go away with
me 7 told him that 7 had never been al
lowed TO play like other children and
that I had been neglected. fou see. one
that lives in a brovustone front on
boulevard is not always happy"
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
CORPORATION, TAX.
CleUeland Suit to Test Validity
of the Lasc.

Cleveland. JAM 10.-The first move at
tacking in court the federal income law
upon corporations was made here to-day,
when Lewis w. Jared. of Chicago, filed a
suit in the United States Circuit Court to
stop the collection of the tax. 1t is alleged
that the law is unconstitutional Mr.. Jared
is stockholder of the American Multi
graph Company, and brought suit in behalf
of that company
While the suit primarily attacks the tax
law, it is directed against the company in
stead of the government, and asks that the
court hold that the company should not be
allowed to pay this tax.
The contention that the law is unconsti-
tutional is based upon the allegation that
it is not uniform in its operation, as it ex-
cludes companies whose net income is less
than 5000 year, and that the law de-
mands of companies information of pri-
vate character. The American Mutigraph
Company is a s5.ooo,ooo corporation.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
DETAILSOF CAMPAIGN
Premier 4squih Scores the
House of Lords.
LBy The Associated Press.

London. Jan. 10.-Herbert III. Asuuith the
Prime Minister, tonight issued an election
address to the Fist Fife electors. The ad-
dress is a comparatively brief document,
ignoring all sides Of the issues raised dur
ing the course of the campaign. and is
confined strictly to the constitutional ques-
ton involved in the Lords rejection of the
budget In defence of the budget the Pre-
mier says:
the luxurics, superfluities and monopolies
leaving the necessaries of life untouched"
Again he says: I'm a sentence, the House
of Lords has violated the constitution in
order TO save the cause of tariff reform
from mortal blow
The Premier declares that the Lords
claim TO the control of the country's
finances is usurpation, and that the ex-
perience of the Parliament Just dissolved
shows that the possession of an unlimited
veto by q partisan second chamber is an
insuperable obstacle to democratic Iegis-
lation.
Describing how the House of Lords places
no check on legislation by a Tory House
OF Commons, while a Liberal House of
Commons is impotent to carry new Ieeis-
lation. he says: "It is absurd to speak
of this system as though it secures to us
any advantages of a second chamber in
the sense ir' which that term is understood
and is practically interpreted by every other
democratic country
Mr.. Churchill at Birmingham suf-
fered considerable interruption from suf-
fragettes, several of whom were expelled
from the meeting.
A crowd of Unonists invaded Liberal
meeting at Camberwell, Parliamentary
borough of London. and created such dis
turbance that Thomas James Mcnamara
Member of Parliament for that district,
who was billed for a speech, could not
get hearing and was obliged to abandon
the attempt
Sir Edward GREY, Foreign Secretary at
Edinburgh, declared that there never
was less reason to talk about war be-
tween Great Britain and Germany than
there was to-day. In time he said, the
German naval programme would be com
rleted. and then ii would be ascertained
exactly how the ratio between the navies
cf the two countries stood which nigh.
put rivalry in naval expenditure at rest