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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
Sweeping Prairie Fire.

Aberdeen.-Fire on Signal Butte, in
Meade county, swept eve n large tract
Of country and destroyed con
siderable property, including 4C
acres of fine timber owned by Ed
Heiser of Faith. Tie blaze is believed
to have originated from lightning
striking a tree, and owing TO the eX'
tremely dry condition of the surround
ing country, it spread rapidly, cover
ing a strip two miles wide and six
miles long before it was finally extin'
guished. twenty-five trees. said to be
the largest in northwestern South Da,
kota, on the ranch of Mellen Garew
were destroyed by the flames. Mellen
Garew, Isadore Garew and ellison Ga.
rev lost heavily because Of pastures
destroyed by the flames.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
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engines of destruction, Germany thir-
teen, the United States ten, Japan six
and Russia and Italy four each.
But in the meantime the Panama
Canal will have been opened, and the
efficiency of the American navy al
most doubled. Up to now the larger
portion of the feet has been kept in
open it would be possible to effect a
change of position in case Of need
without serious delay.
A writer signing himself "NavarCh"
emphasizes, in an article on The Dis
position of Our Fighting Fleet" in the
Columbian Magazine, the Importance
of the new naval stations in the Pa
cific. He speaks particularly of Pearl
Harbor at Hawaii, where a naval base
is now being established, and of the
dry dock Dewey at Olongapo, sixty
miles from Manila.
THE protection OF our Atlantic
coast" he says. lies in a fleet based
on Guantanamo, and the protection Of
the Pacific coast lies in a fleet based
on Pearl Harbor. Both Guantanamo
and Pearl Harbor are ideally situated
in their respective spheres. The form
err is centrally located with reference
to the Panama Canal and our Atlantic
coast, and a feet based there would
command all the avenue toward the
canal. Hawaii stands in the Pacific
as our outpost, and no power could
successfully approach our Pacific
coast without taking it and meeting
VIGOROUSLY the strong fleet which We
would maintain there"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
LONG AFRICAN TRIP
English Girl Penetrates WiIds
of Dark Continent.
Discovers Waterfall on River Mao
Kali and French Authorities in
Country Name Cataract Les
Chutes Macleod.

London.-Miss Olive Macleod, who
left England in August last to visit
the grave of her fiance, Lieut.. Boyd
Alexander, who was murdered by ma
tives in central Africa, recently ar
rived in England.
She was met by her father, Sir
Reginald Macleod, when she landed,
and left for ~Paddington. Thence she
proceeded by motor car to her beau
tiful home. Winners, neal Maid
stone.
Altogether the African journey con-
sisted of 200 miles, mostly on foot
or horseback. p. A. Talbot, district
commissioner of Niagara, and Mrs.
Talbot, accompanied her during the
whole Of the journey. and were re-
sponsible for the arrangements.
Among the many trophies that Miss
Macleod brought home were two
baby lions, which were presented to
her in French Niagara.
Miss Macleod vas very eager to
take them home with her, but, being
now six months old, they were thought
to be rather dangerous pets for Maid,
stone, and have been sent to the
zoo.
During the journey Miss Macleod
traversed lane across which no white
woman had ever been before. At times
the party included as many as so ma.
tives, these being required to carry
stores and food.
Miss Macleod. with her companions.
IN arriving at the west coast of At
RIGA. travelled up the Niger as far as
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
Heroic Act of a Girl.

Sioux Falls.-Through the herOiism
John Denker, a well known Gregory
county homesteader, was saved, when
he was overcome by heat and smoke
while trying to save his automobile
from a burning building. The daugh-
in dragging him from the burning
structure. The building was set on
fire by a bolt OF lightning, and efforts
of the neighbors and others TO save it
were useless, nothing being left of it
but a mass of s~moldering ruins. Den
ker's financial loss was about 81, 200.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
Weddina Causes Death.

Mitchell.-Mrs. F. Mcguire died
suddenly as the result of heart failure
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mar.
tin Wider. The youngest daughter of
Mrs. Mcguire, Miss Bessie, was mar
ried Wednesday afternoon and went
to the Twin Cities in the evening with
her husband, to take a boat trip 70 st.
Louis. 1t Is thought that the excite
ment attendant upon the marriage of
her daugher brought on the fatal at
tack of heart trouble. Mrs. Mcguire
was he mother of Congressman Ma
guire, of Lincoln, Neb.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
Tubers Are Way Up.

Huron.-Continued dry and hot
weather has sent the price of potatoes
in this market skyward. Tubers are
selling at $3.50 and "a per bushel, and
the market is not overstocked. Hay is
bringing a greater price tha% fol
years-S7 to 50 per ton. Farmers are
hopeful for a fair corn crop to tide
them over the winter with stock feed
while city people are anxious concern
ing vegetables and garden stuff. The
small fruit Gre is N Of the smallest
in ten years.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
Searching for False Friend.

Deadwood.-A heart broken hus,
band in search of his runaway wife
and babe arrived on the Pierre train
and after a conference with Deputy
officer, where the two searched the
city for the wife and child, who are
supposed TO be in this vicinity. Mrs,
VI. II. Franssen became infatuated
with a friend, Fred Brabenter. several
months ago and the pair eloped from
st. Libory, Neb., June 16, going to Hot
Springs. Later the mother, her babe
and the home wrecker j]ourneyed to
Rapid City, where Bartender asked
for work at the round house.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
Sioux Falls Pioneer Dead.

Sioux Falls.-Wallace l.. Dow, aged
81 years, one of the pioneer residents
of Sioux Falls. died suddenly as the
result of a stroke of apoplexy. He was
IN architect. and vas well known
throughout the state and northwest,
He drew the plans for nearly all the
state institutions and for many of the
public buildings in the cities of ad'
joining states.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
Lucky the Snake crawIs.

Cambridge, Mass.-The serpent ia
eve wiser than the woman tells us.
according to Professor Maynard, the
noted educator here. In a rather
starting statement, the professor de.
clares that as a result of a study of
snakes he Is convinced that had they
been able to develop hands and feet
instead of being obliged to crawl, their
brains would have enabled them to
dominate the world. In that event. he
asserts man would probably have re-
named in a primitive, savage state, or
ossibly even an an ape.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
Majority of Us.

Selby.-At the recent election held
for that purpose, Walworth county
voters returned a majority OF l75 in
favor of issuing bonds in the sum of
$4,000 for the purpose of construct,
ing a court house at Selby, the county
seat. Less than rs per cent of the
total vote of the county was cast.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
New York's Debt Is Heavy,

New Workers. are the biggest bor-
rowers in the world; at least they are
collectively, for the city owes
seven times as much as any other city
in the country and more than one
half as much as the largest 27 other
cities In the land.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
Letter 20
Dr.. klimer q Co.
Blnghamton, N. Y.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You

Send to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bingham
ton, N. Y, for a sample bottle. 1t will
convince anyone. You will also receive
a booklet of valuable information, telling
all about the kidneys and bladder. When
writing, be sure and mention this paper.
For sale at all drug stores. Price fifty
cents and one-dollar.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13

His-Is he a finished musician?
Dixie came near being one last
night. The neighbors chased him lear
ly ten blocks.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13
The Modern Trend

Mrs. windows Soothing Syrup for Chiidren
,eething, softens the gums, reduces iunamma-
ion, allays pain. cures wind collie. 2Sc . bottle
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13

wv VARS and rumors of war die
HMx hard. Even at this late
@@ time in the worlds history,
when civilization might be
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-13

The silk stocking girl is very much
in evidence.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17
HOW THE STATE HAS BEEN WRONdED.

HR0M the beginning the State was a partner in the Morris
canal enterprise. 1t granted a charter comforting a valuable
franchise and lent its aid in the building OF the canal. by
a covenant in the charter it is provided that when the charter should
expire the State should have the option to take possession OF the
property at a valuation, and at the end of another period of fifty
wears the property was TO 60 TO the State absolutely, without cost.
As the State was to be the future owner of the canal the canal com
pany was virtually made a trustee for the State. If the canal com
bany had faithfully administered the affairs of the canal, or if the
canal lessee had done so, the State would in 1873, by purchase, o IN
1878, without price, come into possession of a magnificent property.
As it is there is nothing left of the canal proper but the ditch. And
the canal lessees now ask the State to reward them with all the
canal property, to be converted TO their private uses. If state ad-
ministrations in the past had exercised ordinary care of the public
interests relating to canal navigation the property would not have
been wrecked. The lease of the canal by a foreign corporation would
have been forbidden. Such a lease would not in our day be tolerated
Bad government and unfaithful legislatures in the past conspired
With the wreckers to destroy a great State property. What kind
of a government and Legislature is it that would complete the wreck
and give all the great salvage to the wreckers?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17
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The People 5 Rostrum


who pays no license to the State what
ever, the right to taxi his goods any
where in the State and collect on them,
while the State dealer, who pays a
large fee to the State for the privilege
Of doing business in it, and is gener-
ally a large taxpayer besides, car deal
only with those IN his immediate
vicinity-in his own town.
This discrimination against the
States own licensee and in favor of
the dealer who pays nothing TO the
State is so manifestly unfair as to re-
quire remedy. Assembly No. $40 merely
enables the home dealer to look for his
trade in as wide a territory as that
which the interstate m law
guarantees to the out-of-state dealer.
The senators who expires ed the view
that the act c~onfers larger rights of
delivery upon the beer bottlers were in
error. Assembly No. $40 is a supple
ment to the Werts law. the general
excise law of the State. That law has
no bearing upon the bottlers. Their
business is regulated by another act
passed in 1896. 1t is needless to explain
that an amendment to one law can
have no effect whatever upon another
law. Yours very truly.
e. RYAN, President.
Jersey City.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17
sunday Closing violation

To the Editor OF the Evening starr:
II is evident that the order OF the
police commissioners was not followed
to the letter inshaving saloons closed
all day yesterday. The shooting tina
occurred in a saloon Of the Second
precinct last evening is mute testimony
to this.
That a life may be lost as a result
is almost positive, for the City Hospital
authorities state that there is little
hope for the man, who was shot
through the breast. 1t is stated that
the injured man had nothing to do
with the brawl. but nevertheless. he was
helping to violate the ordinance by be-
ing in a saloon on a Sunday. Had the
saloon-keeper followed the advice of
the police he would not have been in
truoble at the present time. Now he
has two serious charges facing him. If
the unfortunate man should die he viii
probably answer a charge of man
slaughter, while the charge of violating
the excise ordinance will be pressed i'm
m~ediately.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17
Public discussions commended.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
That's an excellent idea of the Essex
Trades Council to arrange a public
meeting at which the fire danger to en-
ployees is to be ventilated by able
speakers.
I am just as firm a believer in meet
ings of this kind as 1 am in the full and
free discussion of current topics in the
press. One of the greatest blessings
of enlightened nations is that the peo-
pie are permitted to get together and
disuss subjects of great concern with
u fear of interruption from fussy pc
lice officials.
The Trades Council should lave the
hearty support and sympathy of the
community at large in this movement.
But it should not confine itself to talk
alone, for words on such occasions
mean little. 1t should embody it's ideas
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17
KIN. MOUNTS.


Perhaps the most admirable achieve
rnent Of palniistry is It's distribution OF
the human race into sever primary
types.
Each type is absolutely distinct from
the other, and each is Identified by so
called mounts on the palm OF the
hand. Four of the seven types may
also at times be discovered by the size
of the fingers in the absence of their
appropriate mounts"
These mounts are ieshy protuber-
ances and are named and situated as
follows:
1. Mount of Jupiter is at the bass OF
the index finger. The fingers. by the
way, are named similarly as their re-
spective mounts.
2. Mount of Saturn is at the base Of
the middle finger.
8. Mount Of Apollo is at the base OF
the ring finger.
4. Mount of Mercury is at the base OF
the little finger.
8. Mount of Mars occupies the middle
third of the hand between the little
finger and the wrist. 1t extends from
the edge of the hand (the percussion"
as it Is called) clear across to the oppo-
site edge and Is divided into three
parts. That at the outer edge beneath
the little finger is the upper mount Of
Mars" that at the thumb side OF the
hand is the lower mount of Mars"
and the space between the two mounts
Is called the plain of Mars"
6. Mount of the Moon is the hands
lowest third beneath the little finger.
7. Mount Of Venus we are already ia
| miliar with as the third phaianx OF
the thumb.
Each mount shall be treated Of In
turn. But before essaying this 1t may
not be inappropriate to discuss some
preliminary matters.
First of all, II should be thoroughly
understood that, although there are but
seven primary types Of humanity,
there is an almost infinite variety of
combinations. And the skill OF the palm
list is often taxed to the utmost to de-
termine which of the mounts is In the
lead and which are secondary in any
| given combination.
In all types, whether primary or
mixed, you will find good persons and
bad. The other markings In the
hand. such as color, nails, lines and Sc
forth. will indicate inevitably whether
the individual before o is a good or a
bad specimen OF the type he represents
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Because of the misconstruction put
upon Assembly bill $40 by some Of
the senators in the debates in the state
Senate the Wholesale Liquor Dealers
Association deem ii advisable to make
a public statement as to the purpose
and effect of the bill. The act has
passed both houses of the Legislature
and is probably now in the hands of
the Governor.
1t is only necessary to explain the
situation out of which the bill grew
to show not only its fairness and JUS
tice, but eve its necessity. Some
months ago driver in the employ Of
the Siegel-Cooper department store in
New York was arrested in Plainfeld
for delivering a quantity of liquors and
collecting the price thereof. The charge
was that ne had no license to sell
liquors in Plainield and that he was
therefore guilty of violation of the
excise laws of the State. He was in
dicted by the Union county grand jury
and convicted. On appeal to the higher
courts of the State the Court of Errors
overturned the conviction and freed
him, on the ground that the United
States interstate m law enables
the out-of-state company to deliver its
goods anywhere in the State, and thai
the State can pass no law abridging Its
right in h a particular. That decision
gave TO the foreign dealer the freedom
of the State in seeking customers and
delivering his liquors wherever he could
find a sale for them. 1t may be SAID
that he has the same right to go into
dry" territory as into wet territory
with his liquors.
b the same time a South Vine
land wholesaler was arrested while de
~livering liquors outside of the town IL
which his store was located, on {
charge of selling in a territory To-
which he had no license. On ria h,
was convicted, and on appeal the Cour
OF Errors held that he had no right t.
deliver his liquors in any town OUTSIDE
of that in which his licensed store Il
located.
The effect of these tv-o decisions wa
to give to the out-of-state wholesaler
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17
A SENSATIONAL SHRINKAGE.

Circumstances continue to alter cases
as we'll as conditions, to say nothing Of
proportions.
One of the most thrilling news stories
of the past year was that which con-
cerned the escape from theatrical
durance of a ~ferocious wolf, swapping,
snarling. white fanged, r~ed-mouthed,
gaunt and Jack Londonish.
With a hoarse snarl this ~ferocious
brute leaped into the orchestra, dis
persing the musicians and driving out
the shieking audience. His recapture
was brought about by a display of
heroism of the finest type.
That was the story, passionate, palpi-
tating.
Now mark the shrinkage in sensa-
tional values.
A Brooklyn girl has had a suit
brought in her behalf for $50, 900 dam
ages for being bitten by one of a "fe-
rocious pack of wolves belonging to a
theatrical corporation. Now listen to
the answer of the defendants. They
say the 'ferocious pack" consisted of
''one tiny timber wolf, an innocent pet,''
and while they refrain from denying
that he leaped from the stage during 81
theatrical performance, they do not
nov of his having bitten anyone.
Nevertheless 1t is a very thrilling
story-outside OF the courtroom.-Cieye-
land Plain Dealer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17
OPPOSITION TO SEWAGE isposAL PLANTS.

0TTo He determined fight that the residents of Bound Brook have
made to prevent the establishment of a sewage disposal plant
by North Plainfeld on lands close to Bound Brook is only
AN evidence of the inveterate hostility of communities and of prop
ertyowners to the existence of any nuisance of this kind. North
Painfed could find no site within its own limits for a sewagedis-
posal plant. and. therefore. sought a site within the territory of
another. Paterson tried to locate a disposal plant in Bergen county,
and failed. East Orange, Montclair, Bloomfield and Glen Ridge
are talking about a joint sewerage system, with a plant in an outside
municipality, but the instant the attempt is made there will be
fierce and effective opposition. In a rapidlygrowing region like
Northern New Jersey, in which in the next ten years more than half
a million new population will be brought and many new communi-
ties will be established, disposal plants will be a very serious detri-
ment. The instinct that opposes them is right. There is only one
way to get rid of the sewage of North Jersey municipalities, and
that is a trunk sewer 10 take the ahauent into New York bay and
thence out into the ocean.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17
OUR WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT.

I'D OSTON has plans for harbor piers to accommodate the largest
ID vessels built, and Boston will carry out her plan without any
delay. Philadelphia, always slow and sluggish, is waking
up to the importance of municipal docks and is planning large i'm
provements on her waterfront. New York city has appropriated
a million for development of Jamaica bay, and the dock commits.
sioner urges the city to build extensive new piers on the Brooklyn
side of New York bay. Jersey City wants to acquire and improve
the Hackensack waterfront. Trenton is no less anxious for munich
pal docks on the Delaware river, and there is a public movement in
for a municipal dock system. Newark, which is better
situated for dock improvements than any other New Jersey city or
than most of the cities of the country, cannot afford to lag in the
enterprise, which has been sanctioned by a referendum. If we show
the necessary energy in pushing the work of developing the meadows
and building a dock system we will have nothing to fear from the
enterprise of other cities, not even of New York. It is in our power
us doit.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17
O AS A MILITARY DISQUALIFICATION.

TH HE philosopher of the state Gazette at Trenton rises to re.
mark: 1T cannot be truthfully said that a man at the age
of "a years is unfit for active service in the field. 1t s a fact
that some of the best military commanders fought their greatest
battles after they had passed that age" AS the military law of
every nation retires officers at about the age of 90, our government
included, and as governments unwilingly dispense with the serv,
ices of experienced officers. it is evident that no government in the
world agrees with the Gazette philosopher. An army of soldiers
over 60 years of age engaged in an active campaign would be a
spectacle for the gods and sport for the enemy. 1t is not a fact
that some of the best military commanders fought their greatest
battles after they had passed the age of 90. There are a few in
stances in history of men of an advanced age, like Butcher, fighting
important battles when at an advanced age, and these are the ex
teptions that prove the rule. If there should arise an emergency
to require the calling out of troops by our government no National
Guard officer who had attained the age of ga would be accepted for
service. He would be Immediately laid on the shelf.