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The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14
The Call For axe

Pierre-The call for taxes this month
will bring probably $500, 900 to the state
fund. and with over 500, 900 on hand
at the beginning of this month, will
bring in sufficient cash to aake up the
outstanding general fund warrants to
the amount of about $4O0, 900 and are
for the capitol warrants coming due,
beside leaving about 5000, 900 to carry
the state on a cash basis and save
paying 6 per cent on general fund
warrants.
This will reduce the state debt to
approximately $500, 900, and with the
surplus left from the present collec-
tons, and the money which will come
in from the calls made later in the
year, it is hoped the state can be kept
on a cash basis the rest Of the year
and save interest charges.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14
Usher Faces Big Task

and other rights of way, easements,
the issuance of patents for lands, and
with furnishing certified copies of
land patents and of records, plats and
papers on file in that Office. In the
national forests, he executes all laws
relating to surveying, prospecting, 10
eating, appropriating, entering, re-
conveying or %patenting of public
lands, and the granting of rights OF
way amounting to easements.
The employees of the department
are divided among the various
branches Of the service as follows:
Office of secretary, 307; Office of
the assistant attorney general, %;
general land Office, LAST; office OF
Indian affairs. sos; patent Office,
934; pension Office, 1879; bureau OF
education, 178; geological survey,
1908; reclamation service, LAS; bu-
reau of mines, 1913; hospitals, 900;
parks and reservations, Sc; territorial
and District Of Columbia, 26; Office Of
superintendent Of the capitol, %; to
tai, 1892.
OF course, the big thing in the pub
lice eye in the department of the in
terror at the present time is the con-
servation question, involving as it
does a definite policy for the admins
tration of the public domain with
especial reference to Alaska, as well
as the contiguous territory embracing
the states. Arising under the pres
ent laws, however, is the Cunningham
coal claims in Alaska and the water
power sites controversy, both Of
which were involved in the Ballinger-
Pinchot embroglio, and both Of which
will have to be dealt with by Secre-
tary Fisher. Even while considering
these important items, however, Mr..
Fisher must ever have an eye on the
general administration of the whole
department, which is one of the most
comprehensive in the entire govern
ment.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14

n EALERS In corsets are not pleased
~ with the latest fad Of the Wash
ington smart set.
On excellent authority 1t is said
that to be strictly swagger nowadays
q woman must discard the engirdling
Istays-a thing not impossible with
the present style of empire girdled
frock. The younger set promoted
the back to nature" idea. There
have been many smart dances this
winter, and one after another the
youthful damozels have cast aside the
artificial form.
The first girl to appear at a dance
uncorseted created a mild sensation.
But so materially did her innovation
affect ner career as a belle that the
subsequent dances were remarkable
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14
State Land AppraisaIs

Pierre-The appraisal work of state
lands which will be offered for sale
this spring has been completed. The
appraisal figures range from SIS an
acre down to SIS an acre on forty
acre tracts which will be offered. In
the past the appraisement has been
made to a certain extent on general
prices and conditions in the vicinity
where the lands are located, but this
year each forty-acre tract is treated
as standing by itself, and while the
good lands are held up at a good fig
ure, the poorer lands get the low ap-
praisement. This will mean a some
what lower average appraisement than
for former years, but the returns from
the sales will no doubt keep UP the
record, as the best lands are the ones
most likely to be taken.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14

VIIHILE the customs service is be-
w ing rehabilitated there is a dis
position at the treasury department
to clip OF red tape wherever possible.
The abuse has grown up through
many years, and Secretary Macveagh
wants to eliminate it and practical
politics whenever he can. A collect
or at q small port In New Jersey, who
has q record Of collecting so cents q
year and drawing $40 In salary and
expenses recently was called to &C
count for not sending certain docu-
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14

A trial package of Munyon's Paw Paw
Pills will be sent free to anyone on 10
quest. Address Professor Munyon, SD !
jefferson SITS, Philadelphia. Pa II you are
in need Of medical advice, do not fail TO
write Professor Munyon. Your commune
cation will be treated in strict confidence.
and your case will be diagnosed az care
fully as though you had q personal inter.
view.
Munyon's Paw Paw Pills are unlike
all other laxatives or cathartics. They
coax the liver into activity by gentle
methods. They do not scour. they do
not grippe, they do not weaken. but they
do start all the secretions Of the liver
and stomach in . way that soon puts
these organs in a healthy condition and
c~orrects constipation. In my opinion
constipation is responsible for most all
ments. There are 26 feet Of human
bowels, which is really q sewer pipe.
When this pipe becomes clogged the
whole system becomes poisoned. cams
ing b~iliousness, indigestion and impure
blood, which often produce rheumatism
and kidney ailments. No woman who
suffers with constipation or any liver
ailment can expect to have > clear
cOmplcAlOu OI euJOy BUO0 ucAAt0s -
/ had my way I would prohibit tho salo
OF nine-tenths Of the cathartics that ars
now being sold for the reason that thsy
soon destroy the lining Of the stomach
setting up serious forms Of indigestion.
and 20 paralyze the bowels that they ~
fuse to act unless forced By strung
purgatives.
Munyon's Paw Paw Pills ars : tonis
to the stomach. liver and nerves. They
invigorate instead Of weaken; they em-
rich the blood instead OF impoverish
It.; they enable the stomach to sst Ill
the nourishment from food that + put
into it.
These pills contain no calomel, no
dope; they are soothing. healing and
stimulating. They school the bowels
to act without physic. /.
Regular size bottle, containing - pills.
% cents. Munyon's Laboratory, sd =
Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14
MacVeagh Will Abolish Red Tape

ments in connection with the payment
of his salary. He made this protest,
which has been preserved among the
archives Of the treasury:
Il was criticised because 1 had fail
ed to make an AFFIDAVIT that I had paid
myself my salary. In spite of the fact
that I had sworn to my monthly &C.
counts that I had paid myself my sal
airy, / had not sworn that I had re-
ceived the salary which l had sworn
I had paid myself. This last AFFIDAVIT
cost me Is cents.
II then had to put In a voucher for
the 25 cents and make an afidavit
that I had paid myself the Is cents
This, according to q new ruling, was
accompanied by an afidavit that I had
received the Is cents. I had sworn
had paid myself. This has started an
endless chain. which threatens to land
me IN N insane asylum"
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14
PuIverizer Injuries Woman

Sioux Falls-To have a pulverizer
dragged over her, and then to have
her hair catch in the machine and be
dragged over the ground for some
distance, and escape with her life,
was the thrilling experience of Mrs.
Theodore Merritt, wife of a farmer
residing in Beadle county. Her hus-
band, desiring to drive some cattle out
of the field, asked her to operate the
%pulveriZer until this could be done.
Mrs. Merritt dropped one of the lines,
and in STOPPING to pick it up, fell
between the machine and the horses
attached to it. This frightened the
animals and they ran away, dragging
the disc over her. She was cut in a
number of places and was badly
bruised.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14

M ASHINGTON.-Some idea Of the
W gigantic task which confronts
Walter l. Fisher of Chicago, the new
secretary of the interior, a be CLEAN
ed from the fact that approximately
$500, O00, 900 is expended annually in
the department Of which he has just
been made the chief; 700, 000, 900 acres
OF public land Is under his immediate
jurisdiction. not including the terri
tory Of Alaska, and nearly 5000 en-
ployees take their orders from him.
The Importance of the department
TO the country at large cannot be
overestimated, especially at this time
when the country is insisting upon an
administration favoring use of the ma
tional Of the country on the
public domain and in Alaska, which
will not only permit immediate devel-
opment, but conserve these
Tor future generations.
Establishment of the interior depart
iment was the direct result of the &C.
tcession Of territory following the Mex
lean war and general increase in pop
fu~lation, wealth and business. 1t was
made a sort of catchall for govern
lment business which could not be con-
'v~eniently transacted by any other de-
lpartment.
l At the present time the secretary of
the interior has supervision over the
following Offices and institutions:
General land Office, in charge Of
Commissioner Fred bennett, which SUI
pervises the survey, management and
disposition Of the public lands, the ad-
publication Of conflicting claims re-
lating thereto, the granting Of railroad
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14
Looks Good This Time

Bridgewater-The piling up of 49,
900 ties at Bridgewater, Dalton and
Marion Junction has given rise to
a well founded rumor among rail-
road men that the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railroad company will
begin building operations on
what is known as the Marion cut
of" between Marion and Sioux Falls,
a distance of thirty-three miles, and
thus connect with the Running Water
branch, making a direct line between
the latter place and Sioux Falls.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14

Sioux Falls-The number Of pris-
oners at the ~penitentiary has grown
to such an extent that it has been
found necessary to once more press
into service what is known as the old
east wing, or the government wing OF
that institution. There are now 224
inmates at the penitentiary and the
east wing has been thoroughly over
hauled and new plumbing put in, max
ing it equal in all respects to the re-
mander OF the prison. The east wing
has not been used to lock up prisoners
since the government convicts were
withdrawn 3 number of years ago.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14

Wheeler-Wm. Cowan, a farmer liv-
ing north Of old Platte, had . peculiar
experience while engaged In hauling
corn fodder from one Of his fields. a
pine board forming part Of the rack
ignited by friction on one II che hind
wheels, and before he Scarcely knew
what had happened the back part d
his load Of fodder was all In flames.
The horses were stopped and unhitch-
ed with difficulty and taken 70 4 plAco
Of safety. There was Z high wind
blowing ct the time and me names
had soon consumed the load c4 fodder
and practically destroyed the wagon.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14
Clean Town Apostle

Aberdeen-O. s. Basford, state insur-
ance commissioner, has written the
chief of police of Aberdeen notifying
him that a plain clothes man will be
in Aberdeen within a few days and
that wner of property where rubbish
has been allowed to accumulate or re-
main upon the occasion of the plain
clothes mans visit are apt to receive
word their insurance has been can
celled after the sleuth makes his re-
port.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14
ForestaIIed

Foeestalled.
District Attorney j. r. Clarke OF
New York was talking about the re-
cent KIDNAPPING cases.
"Kidnapers," he said, "are apt to
disappear now. They have become
too unpopular. Why. q kidnaper II -
unpopular as q widower.
widows, now. are very attractive,
but about q widower there il always
something uncanny, something almost
clammy-I mean, OF course, from the
matrimonial point Of view.
II know q widower who Ii thinkine
OF marrying again. He thought he'd
breach the matter delicately the other
morning to his little daughter. % he
said:
".Ah, my dear, how / did love your
mother!'
"But the little girl gave him Z sus
picious look and snapped:
"'Say "do," not did," papa ii
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14
Central to Fargo

Watertown-The South Dakota Cen
trail will begin at once the erection of
a handsome new passenger station in
this city, according to Superintendent
Cunningham. Plans have been drawn
and accepted and material ordered.
There are rumors of the road build
ing north to Fargo this summer. 1t
is believed the extension will be built
this season.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14

The secretary of state has issued 376
new auto licenses for March, showing
that the people of the state are be-
ginning early in the year to lay in
their stock of chuff wagons. The last
number issued was 1857, showing that
the Investment in that class OF trans
portation in South Dakota runs into
the millions, but the people Of the
state can afford it.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14

The boards Of trade of Duluth and
Superior have made application to the
state commerce commission, for better
rates to South Dakota points from
those cities, and have requested the
South Dakota railway commission to
intervene in the hearings on the part
Of this state. The board has not yet
decided as to whether or not they will
take q part in the applications.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14

An JnotvtouaI1ot.
The aso for the individual drink
ing cup had been explained again and
again to the children and they had
become sturdy supporters to the
idea.
So It vas not surprising to hear
Henry calling: ma. NAL MeIville's
got my individual applet"
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14

The Freeman Telephone exchange
has made application to the railway
commission for permission to increase
rates, and . hearing will be held ct
that place
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-14
Feeble cuardianshIp.

II wonder" said the Sweet Young
Thing. why q man Il always 20
frightened when he ~proposes?.
THAT" said the Chronic Bachelor.
sis his guardian angel trying 70 hold
him back."-Stray Stories.
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shoestr1ng, SO to speak a few years ago. and
De1ng worth few dozen millions today.
They have tried rubber and made fail
ure, cocoanut plantations bring forth fruit
slowly, pineapples grow large, as do grape
=arult and oranges, but they ripen SO quickly
and the import duty is SO heavy that exporta-
ton under present conditions is hardly to be
considered. Rice does fairly well, while cot
Zee on the west coast reaches high grade OF
perfection. The coffee. diplomatic and other
officials assert, is the finest IN the world.
The chief trouble on the east coast is End.
Ing hillside level enough to stand on and
cultivate the product.
The labor question In Nicaragua has the
servant girl issue in the United States beaten
q. nautical mile, One man will tell you he has
no trouble In getting labor. II he means real
work there is plenty to be done, but from the
standpoint of the employer, the task is no easy
one Money means nothing TO the average
native. One plantation manager told cor
respondent he had so men working for him
and that he transacted business on 500 soils
monkey money, they call TIA year. This
plantation conducts a store, as do the major
1ty- The men are paid in the national cur
re1cys which just as steadily comes back into
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a /IINRAGsLL4N <aWl1-I !

the store, Faylng OF labor in Nicaragua is
much like taking a dollar from one pocket ana
putting it into another That's all right, SO
far as it goes, but when the laborer-genera
an Indian or Jamaican thinks he has too
much to do he quits. He can live without
work. and works merely to please his foreman
The foreman who can get the good will Of the
Indian is the valuable man The superin-
tendent of a coffee plantation has been trying
to get 300 men to work for the last two years
At one time he had 130-and he is a man the
natives like, too.
The manager of a big banana plantation Ii
having the same trouble. month or two Is
frequently spent getting half hundred men
together. Indians stay close to their villages
and tho hope OF the planter IS the building
OF these conglomerations of huts Give the
workers bamboo covered shed in which to
live, build them a church Of the same ma
terial and secure for them a preacher, even
though their morals seem lax, and the natives
will probably spend their lives on the planta-
tfcn-Working when they feel so inclined Now
and then they want to wander away and get
all the bad whisky they can buy, but they
return in time to again take up the machete.
Good treatment appears to be the only secret
II there be any secret of getting labor In
Nicaragua #
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-28

an an noln y. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago
ana men rom numerous smaller cities who
1s interested financially in agriculture and
n nla,. WORK IN Nicaragua Many are already
ieanzlng on their investments.
1aloAs the Rlo Grande river there is a wide
5000, sssa - territory covered with bamboo,
ments of bananas were taken ont Of that 500.
Ion TOT the first time a few weeks ago by the
Fan. ran. company, Kansas CITY and q
LOUIS concern. There are half a, dozen small
companies beginning operations and within
SIX months fully 100000 or 100000 acres Of ba-
nanas VIII have been planted along that river.
which Is said to be the best for the culture
o. tnis particular fruit Of any in the republic.
me bananas-about 5000 bunches-shipped
lately were the finest taken into the port Of
New Orleans
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in the northern part Of the Republic aud
founded the Lone Star mine. Today he is
several times over millionaire. Joe La Pere, a
French Canadian, discovered the Bonanza
mine from which millions In gold have been
taken The Topaz Mining company is an
other paying venture. The chief difficulty
with the mining is the matter of transporta-
ton.
While the earnings Of the various mines
have proven satisfactory, yet it Is in the ba-
mana business that the figures presented by
American experts prove amazing; they show
payment for land, cost Of clearing, planting
and harvesting at the end Of the second year
with an additional profit Of so per cent. on
the Investment. They are indeed startling but
the men who make them point to the United
Fruit company, having started business on
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the nature of gift, and therefore that inter-
est should not be added to the arrears: and.
second, that the vessels belonging to the
Mosquito coast should hoist the Nicaraguan
flag, though against Nicaragua's contention
they were allowed to hoist their own along
side OF It; but on every important point the
decision was in favor of England
Under this decision settlers began to come
in, especially from Canada and Jamaica and
business became quite brisk Nicaragua
failed IN another attempt to induce the coast
to vote in favor Of full citizenship, and mat
tiers went on merrily till few months after
zeIayas rise to the presidency, when. in
January, 1894, a Nicaraguan army suddenly
appeared at Bluefelds, kidnapped and sent ia
the interior the chief Justice and all the lead
Ing men of the coast, and in their absence
ordered an election, with soldiers at every
polling place, to determine finally the stains
Of the coast.
In this election there could be only ona
result, and Nicaragua announced that tha
coast had accepted full citizenship In Mics.
ragua, and, therefore, British interference
was at an end.
For ten years, in spite of occasiona. a.
tempts at revolution one nearly successf,,l
matters Went on fairly at bluefelda an5
business grew, but In 1904 there began s,s
tematic attempts to Cypress this coast
As further yexation or foreigners ~
Moraylan missionaries and the Chnrnh -
england rector at Bluefelds, who. sinaa tha
Catholic churches have been harried o,,t -
existence, are the only representatives -
re1g1on OF any kind In all this region have
had their schools closed because tuition was
In English. Hsss
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of the coast claimed by Honduras, while to
Nicaragua she agreed to surrender her pro-
tectorate and recognize the sovereignty of
Nicaragua.
Nicaragua in turn agreed to grant complete
local self-goyernment to the Mosquito tribes
then OF blood largely diluted with strains OF
white and Jamaica negro, and using Eng
Hsh as their official language. Nicaragua
also bound itself to make a free port OF
. GreyoWn, at the mouth OF the navigable river
by which the great central lake of Nicaragua
discharges into the Caribbean sea, and for
ten years to pay annually to the Mosquito
Indians subsidy of $4,000
After 10 years less than half of the sub
sidy had been paid, while IN violation of the
treaty Nicaragua had imposed duties lat Grey
town under the pretext that they were to-
pay the subsidy, and had introduced a gov
ernor and garrison at Blueields the Mo-
squlto kings capital, and was otherwise yex-
Ing the inhabitants SO as to force them to
abandon the English language and their local
self-geVernment. Finally. after most inso.
lent treatment of the British consul at Grey
town, who had been appointed the MOSQUITO
kings agent to receive the arrears England
sent Warship to Greytown Nicaragua pro-
tested that, as the British protectorate had
been Withdrawn and Nicaragua's sovereignty
recognized over the coast it was none of
Engiands business whether Nicaragua fulfill
cd the treaty stipulations In favor OF the In
dams. But the captain of the warship was
not moved by this, and after much parley the
entire matter was submitted to the arbitra-
ton Of the emperor of Austria
On two points the Nicaraguan contentious
were upheld, first. that the subsidy was Of