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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
Express Rates Fixed.

16A0tS00 nSSVo ssr>SSs fi.et,
Pierre. The state railway depart.
ment has sent out notices of the new
express schedules fixed by the com,
mission, and it is expected that the
different companies will at once go
into the United States court in a fight
against the rates fixed. The general
reduction as fixed by the commission
is 80 per cent below the rates which
were in effect January 1, 1909.
The commission has fixed number
of hearing on different matters at diff
ferent places over the state. One at
Canova, on the question of stock yard
facilities; at Salem for the investiga-
ton of an accident causing the death
Of a woman; at Tyndall to look into
the matter of telephone rates; at ELK
Point to investigate an accident which
caused the death of a brakeman; at
Bradley in regard to connecting track
between the Minneapolis and ST. LOU
is and the Milwaukee lines; at Pier
pont in regard to telegraph service at
that place; and at Troy, on the Min
neapolis and st. Louis line, in regard
to establishing an agent at that place.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
AND is SENTENCED TO LIFE I'M,
PRlsoNMENT in PENI.
TERTIARY.
WIFE AND SON ARE ACQUITTED
Judge Reid's Charge to Jury Permit.
ted Of Only One Degree Of
guiIt.-WiIl Appeal to
Supreme Court.

Hayward, Wis, May 15.-John F.
De1tz was found guilty of murder in the
first degree, denied a new trial and
sentenced for life Imprisonment in
the state penitentiary, the sentence
providing that he shall spend the
eighth day of October each year in
solitary confinement. Mrs Deitz and
Leslie Deitz were found not guilty..
Deitz's only hope now is in an appeal.
and the corut has granted him ten
days in which to give notice of ap-
peal and frame proper motion.
In moment Deitz was unnerved.
IN an apparent daze he arose and
moved for new trial and for stay.
When the court had allowed his mo.
ton to be entered and had denied it
he asked Deitz if he had anything
to say why sentence should not be
passed. Deitz then launched into
bitter attack on the lumber interests
reviewing his whole case, denounced
the people of Sawyer county and again
denounced w. B. Rubin of Milwaukee
who had first appeared as attorney for
him.
The jury was charged by the court
to return verdict of acquittal or a
verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree only, for either the father, the
mother or the son separately or for all
three.
John Deitz for the first time in all
his fearless life heard himself pitiless-
ly arraigned and pictured in every de.
spicable light by man who stood fear.
lessly face to face with him and in
cold, unadorned language heaped upon
him as much as if not more contempt
and vtllitication than the backwoods.
man has ever attributed to the law
and the lumber trust.
Pointing his finger almost into the
face of the much-feared backwoods.
man, Attorney .Sturdevant called him
name after name, laughed at his her.
aided valor, sneered at his gameness,
and heaped scorn on his bravado.
John Deitz listened to every word of
it, heard himself held up to the world
as everything low and contemplate.
He looked at the judge, at the jury
and then at the man who was throw.
ing the dirt In his very face,
Leslie Deitz sat behind his mother
with his hand on her shoulder as
though in restraint. He mainly ex.
pressed his feelings by smiles of dis.
belief at every depreciatory reference
to his father.
"The uHcontradicted evidence of the
state makes all three of the defend.
ants guilty as one another" said Dis
trict Attorney S. j. Davis, in the
states argument
Mrs. Deitz had refused to come out
when she was given that chance Les.
lie Deitz was a grown man and intel.
ligent and only stayed in the cabin to
help his father fight. The conspiracy
between them was plain. The lumber
trust has nothing to do with the kill
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18

IL = ls ~ aI ( 4 q
ton was former member Of the house
and is close friend OF Vice Presi-
dent Sherman and other leaders of
the old guard In the state, having sue.
ceeded MIR. Sherman in the house
when the latter became vice presi,
lent.
The TWO Careers.
Mr.. Stimson was born in New Yorh
Sept. Il, 1867. He graduated from
school ia 1890. He was associated
with Senator Root of New York in
the practice Of law and In 1906 was
appointed United States attorney for
the southern district OF New York
He resigned that position after three
years, service. but became special
counsel Tor Ine goysTnmenttSTF tn III :
prosecution OF the sugar trust. AS
counsel in that case he won the ad
miration Of Attorney General Wick
ersham and Mr.. Taft.
Secretary Dickinson was born II
Mississippi, spent most OF his life ii
Tennessee and was appointed to tht
cabinet from Chicago. He is 60 years
sold. Ia the Civil war he served with
1.-The Mississippi ~ lunJeers. He wa
educated Ia the University Of Nash
vile. the University OF Leipsig, Sax
Ipny. and the SorbonI1e, Paris Heswal
sworn IN ~ zec Of war IL arc,
Il II. 1868, previously having been gen
er6l counsel OF the Illinois Contra
X - irnnX I, With nfFfceas iYi r,htcars,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18

president and Mr.. Dickinson, no rea-
son other than that of pressing pri-
vate affairs is given for the secretary's
retirement.
Mr.. Dickinson will go to his Tennes-
see home Immediately upon the quail
fication of his successor. He expects
to devote his attention to business and
will not return to the practice of law
in which he was engaged when Presi-
dent Taft appointed him secretary of
war in March, 1909.
New Assistant Treasurer.
Coincident with the announcement
Of Mr.. Dickinson's retirement came
that of the appointment of c. S. Mill
tngton of Herkimer, n Y, to be as
sistant treasurer of the United States
in New York.
Mr.. Stimson was the Roosevelt can
didate for governor, while Mr.. Milling
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
Edgemont a Feeding Point.

Edgemont.-T Burlington has de-
cided to make this feeding station,
and to accommodate shippers have
ordered the erection of stock yards
which will accommodate an entire
trainload of cattle. Twenty more
pens will be built and five loading
chutes put in Local producers and
dealers in hay and feed anticipate q
brisk market as a result.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
FROM MANY POINTS
EVENTS or THE DAY HELD 70 4
FEW LINES.
oars EVENTS BOILED DOWN
PsrsonaI, Polltlesl, Foreign and Other
lntsilIgencs Interesting 70 the
General Reader.
Washington.

Representative Warburton Of
Washington. newly elected republi-
can member, In speech in the house
announced his intention Of support.
Ing the democratic free list bill.
The decalogue and the golden rule
as standards for laws and government
are recommended to congress in a
Joint resolution prepared by Repre-.
sentative Pepper, OF Iowa, at the re-
quest Of the christian party.
While many reports from Mexico
are far from encouraging, President
Taft and his cabinet are hoping for
peace The cabinet discussed the
Mexican situation and 1t was deter
mined this government shall stand
pa"
Investigation Of charges Of graft
IN connection with the contracts for
shoes for the army and navy was be-
/ gun by subcommittee of the house.
The inquiry is to determine whether
bids and speciifi tii0n5 aTs published
60 arranged as to throw the contracts
into the hands Of one firm.
It was Indicated that Secretary
Macveagh will call for popular bids
on an issue OF $50 100000 OF Panama
honda IN few days. They will be
dated June ] and II the treasury is
unable to deliver them BY that time
they will carry accrued interest, The
interest rate will be per cent
The Joint resolution providing for
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
WAR DEPT. CHIEF MENTIONS
BUSINESS AS HIS REASON
FOR REsieNiNG.
ISTIMSON IS SUCCESSOR
Rumors Of Friction Heard.-The APP
pojntments In New York Re
gardee as Political.
Move.

Washington, d. c. Secretary of
war Jacob McNavock Dickinson of
Tennessee, the Democratic member
of President Taft's cabinet, has re-
signed. Henry L. Stimson of New
York, recently defeated Republican
candidate for governor Of that state,
has been given the war portfolio. In
the letters exchanged between the
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
Correct Measures.

Correct Measures.
Vermillion.-That boxes of berries
must be labeled with their true meas
ure after July i, is a statement in
cluded in bulletin issued by Alfred
N. Cook, state food commissioner. He
says:
The net weight law, known as the
Curtiss bill (also as senate bill No.
40, imposes the following require
ments:
/. Each and every package of food
must be stamped to show the true net
weight, measure or numerical count.
2. It must bear the name of the
| manufacturer or wholesaler, together
| with the address of the same.
8. The true grade, or class, of the
product must be given.
4. All goods in the hands of retail
ers and wholesalers within the state
on July /, 1911, are exempt and do
not come under the terms of the
law According to the opinion of the
attorney general, this provision does
not apply to goods outside of the state.
The department will allow varia-
lions on account of small unavoidable
errors in weighing, If the error is
found to be as often above as below
the state weight, and will also take
!. into consideration shrinkage due to
climatic conditions in case of pack
ages put UP under normal conditions
i from normal stock.
n aH,Js - ofo
ards the state food and drug commits
A sioner requests wholesale firms doing
i business in South Dakota to comply
4 as nearly as possible with that part of
the law requiring the true class or
grade Of the product to be plainly
marked upon the container.
Money In Dakota Treasury.
Pierre The statement of condition
4 Of I the ii state treasury for April 30
shows that on that date there was a
total of $90S,612 in all funds. OF this
the eneral fund carried s274,27S, which
means that the state will pay cash for
some time to come, as that amount
D will easily carry through until the re
ceipts from the June call for taxes
come in. The Irvine plant fund shows
|, surplus of $4,000; the game fund
ii SIS, 1863, but this will be reduced when
!. the department begins to pay for the
) birds and animals which they will Sc
cure for stocking the state. The com
81 4 5: ;se.s seheel income fund shows SAILS.
j Ola, which will go out of the treas
& ury In June for the benefit of the
E schools Of the state, and will material
" reduce the total cash on hand. This
D fund will likely 90 to over 100000
d before it is distributed.
4 vessey Guest Of Honor. s5
b Parker The Mems Sunday Even
8 ing club. Of the Presbyterian church
= Rev William Wallace pactor, recently
{ held banquet in the church parlors
9 Foasts we're responded to by members
z TOT TOT the club. Gov. AIessey, who was
the guest 0ff honor he's ttrii,,s, vel
q somed BY the club. and responded with
q splendid address 's's. isS ssla
Z For Tablet TO klttredge. sii.ss
Sioux Falls movement to raise
e. i fund BY voluntary subscription fol
the purchase Of a sui,ahfe tablet q
Z. the memory Of the late ex-senator Al
p. Kittredge has been inaugtirated by
8. NJ. E. Walton Of Huron. secretary Of
q the Republican primary organization
&. u South Dakota, Although the place
!. TOR erecting the tablet has nor VET beer
considered, II II believed Il will be
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18

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billiard Wight of Aberdeen, head OF
the Wight Theater company, pleaded
guilty in federal court to charge OF
having infringed on copyrights and
was sentenced by Judge Charles viii.
lard to "a fine of $500. Wight for two
years past has been engaged in pre-
senting ROYALTY plaYs in South Dakota
towns without having paid royalty,
escaping this by advertising the plays
under other names than the original
titles.
Improvement on Trolley Cars.
Electrical engineers are proposing
that trolley cars be equipped with ball
bearings In order to let the cars coast
as much as possible and thus reduce
the consumption Of energy.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
Attorney Shot Down.

Redfield. William Issenhuth, states
attorney of Sphinx county, was shot
and seriously wounded by William
Temsha here. Issenhnth was struck
in the hip and hand, but will recover.
Tomsha was examined by the insanity
board short time ago, but was dis
charged. He blamed Issenhuth for
instituting these proceedings.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
Referendum on Headlight Law.

Referendum petitions have been
printed and will be put in circulation
to again submit the electric headlight
law to vote of the people. This law
was voted on last fall and defeated
by a large majority. This means that
it will again be voted on in 1912, and
the railroads will not equip their en-
gines with electric headlights accord
ing to the provisions of the bill.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
Litigation over Ditch.

Litigation Over Ditch.
Pierre.-The state engineers depart
ment has issued permit to Fred G..
Doody and Adolph l.. Burnard for the
right to appropriate the waters of
False Bottom creek, in Lawrence coun-
ty. This application has been subject
to a great amount of litigation, and the
permit has been granted subject to the
decision of he courts in the matters in.
volved in the litigation.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
eRoPR,EToRs OF HOTELS, SODA
FOUNTAINS, ETC, ARE CIV
EN- WARNING.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital City, the Various
State Institutions and Diff
ferent Parts of the
State.

VermilliOn.-A large amount OF ice
has been harvested and packed every
winter iii South Dakota that is of ques-
tionable character. The food depart
ment, up to the present date, has been
dealing with other problems and has
not been able to consider the vital
question of the character Of the ice
offered for sale to the public. The time
has come, however, when the depart
ment will assume an aggressive atti-
tude with regard to the matter of ice
which is impure. The department will
object to the sale of ice as food, or to
be added to food, in South Dakota
which is not pure from sanitary
standpoint. Ice is unfit for food under
the following conditions:
/. If it has been taken from a pond
or stream which is contaminated by
sewage from cesspools, outhouses,
barns, kitchen wastes, etc.
2. If during the process of freezing
it has not been protected from tres
passers by portable fence or other
suitable means. Ice which is located
at a considerable distance from hui
man habitation and out of common
range of trespassers would, of course,
iced no such protection.
3. If it has been handled and trans.
ported under unclean and unsanitary
conditions.
Dealers in ice, hotels. boarding
houses, restaurants and proprietors OF
soda fountains are warned against the
sale of ice as food, or in food and
drink, which is contaminated by sew.
age or from other causes.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18

Pardoned by Vessey.
Pierre.-Gov. Wesley has granted a
pardon to Henry Baker, who was sent
from Campbell county on a charge Of
adultery.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18

Use for Street Rubbish.
City authorities Of Amsterdam are
now considering the conversion OF the
street rubbish as mass into cosabus
tible briquets for heating boilers.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18

A,shougt'a my sef1iftsss II "a; 81
80 hi : m y5ov, J, !. ~
some ofhce-aeeker cornes D 4 49, n s. -
- AUS I'm on my ssalntiin. hss
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
The prosnect

Caller-Is your mistress engaged to.
night?
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next week. M
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-12-15
SOME CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
Double Penalty Threatened for Those
Who Dared to Interfere With
the Wires

Rotorua has been laughing over the
wording of notice that has been
place by the Public Works department
on some of the electric wire posts on
the road to Okere, in New Zealand.
Some time ago Maori youth, who
seemed to have a misguided taste for
experimenting. threw q long piece of
cable over the electric wires that run
to Rotorua from the power station at
the Okere Falls.
The town was at once plunged in
darkness for TWO or three hours until
the mischief had been located.
The dusky and youthful experiment.
sr was carpeted in the court and fined
sor his scientific enthusiasm, and the
department. put up this notice
Any persons climbing the electric
light poles or damaging the insulators
are liable to fatal shock and a penal
y of 210.'-Tit Bits
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-12-15
Public Spirit Run Riot.

Our little town o. Blueberryville is
right up to date an about as progress
sive an public-speerited as any town
in the state" said Zedekiah Brush, as
he drove over the hills with the sum
mer boarder.
Fact is, some Of us think the Sc
lec,men use the tax money a little too
freely keepin' Sace with the speerit
Of progress that seems to be in the
air nowadays Here, in the last year,
the town hall has had a new roof. an
a new boss shed las been built around
the church, an a new handle put in
the town pump, an bridge costin'
most 5000 has been built over Plum
Crick. The town clock has been put
in repair at a cost of $3.50, an
they've put three dozen new books in
the town liberty, an now they are
talkin' of offerin' a firm a bonus O.
5000 to start a pickle factory in the
town. Once a lot o. selec'men git
the progressive fever. an the tax
money flies. Public speerit is all right,
but us taxpayers has to foot the bills
when it runs riot the way it does here
in our town."-Jndge.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-12-15

many of them being utterly unfit for use Deal
ers such these rare it is true; the major
ity of them are honest
To the dealers, whom the railroads designate as
the consignees the little fellows the traders
These also represent almost every phase of hui
man character. Many up a few hundred dol
lars and visit the freight yards with their teams
buying the trees in less than carload lots In this
way they can see just what they getting.
Most OF them are shrewd fellows, and drive a
hard bargain Your upcOuntryman is Outlines as
shrewd however, the "piker' dealer, and many
amusing hours may be spent frequenting the
freight yards in the railroads where the trees
stacked exhibited for sale
Each year there many additions to
the company of dealers. The lure of the adven-
ture, the chance to realize money upon an invest
ment that is practically certain to bring a SO per
cent. return, attracts many to the business Trees
can be purchased in half carload lots or even in
hundred lots for about so cents apiece If they
can be sold for dollar perhaps more the
chance to make money quickly is irresistible to
many investors
Not always does the investor succeed His
fingers are sometimes pretty badly burned. The
market may be glutted, he may have rival on the
next corner, or perhaps his trees not sufficient
ly attractive to cause the public to patronize him.
Perhaps he has held off, waiting for better prices
till the last moment and finds himself with half
hundred spruce his hands, which he must
dispose of as best he may
Usually, however, the business is lucrative The
wise dealer buys trees in hundred lots peddles
them out quickly, and comes back for more. He
does not wait for high prices but sells his trees
for what he can get
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-12-15

AS you pass windy one of these
blustery nights before Christmas Eve and see
the long rows of evergreens laid against the wall,
or ignoby lying prone upon the ground, bethink
you of the place in which they first the light.
The kindly hills, snow-covered engrdling valleys
fragrant with spicy odor picture them bare, lit
tered with the waste Of cuttings, and the unsightly
stumps of trees
Picture the brooding of those trees as they grew.
II took them 20 years to reach age ana
size where they might prove marketable. No
more will the wind and sough through
their branches. The hills bare. The snow
will melt in the spring, and the soil will not
absorb it. Water will run into the streams and
the streams become floods, and the foods breed
calamites
The trees, noble fellows all of them will have
their tops hacked off to accommodate them to
the STIFFNESS of our little boxike homes. AS
the heat of our rooms dries up their sap, their
lives will go out, slowly. day by day They will
end on the bonfire
Yes, buy tree. Buy one and take it home to
your children. When it is bravey decked out in
all it's gala fnery, gather your family about it's
spreading branches, which are exhang their last
breaths for you, and tell them the story of the
life and death of the tree.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-12-15

versary Of the Nativity is in danger
of losing its loving purpose. 1t has
degenerated in many cases to mer-
cenary exchanged gift for a gift.
The spirit is frequently absent.
This should not be- Women rep
resent the greater number of gift
givers. Let us then revert to the
underlying love and reverence that
prompted the Wise Men to lay their
offerings at the feet of the Holy
Baby. Let us give a little of our
hearts with each present, and if we
cannot give a tangible expression of
our love, let us give a hearts wish
instead.
In your hands lies great power for
good or for evil. A woman influences
thought and action. 1t is your duty.
then, to discountenance the heartless
offer and to smile your approval of
the spirit of the day.
Then, indeed, Christmas will mean
all that he would approve The
guiding star of love and good will
that shone SO clearly in the blue
night long ago should never be lost
in our minds, and the love to which
it pointed should epitomize our eff
forts to honor this great day.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-12-15
IT Is CRIMINAL TO NEGLECT
THE SKIN AND HAIR

Think of the suffering entailed by
neglected skin troubles-mental be-
cause OF designation, physical be-
cause of pain. Think of the pleasure
of a clear skin, soft, white hands, and
good hair. These blessings, so essen
tial to happiness and even success in
life, are often only a matter of q little
thoughtful care in the selection of
effective remedial agents. Cuticura
Soap and Ointment do so much for
poor compilations, red, rough hands
and dry, thin and falling hair, and cost
so little, that it is almost criminal not
to use them. Although Cuticura Soap
and Ointment are sold everywhere, a
postal to ''Cuticura," Dept. 81 L, Bos-
ton, will secure liberal sample of
each, with 32-page booklet on skin
and scalp treatment.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-12-15

Heap on more wood.-the wind is chill
But let it whistle it will,
Well keep our Christmas merry still.
Each age has deern'd the newborn year
The fittest time for festal cheer;
And we'll our Christian sires of old
Loved when the year its course had roll6
And brought blithe Christmas back again
With all his hospitable train.
Domestic and religious rite
Gave honor to the holy night;
On Christmas eve the bells were rung:
On Christmas eve the mass was sung:
That only night in all the year
Saw the stoled priest the chalic rear.
The damsel donnd her kirtle sheen
The hall was dressed with holly green;
Forth to the wood did merry men go
To gather in the mistletoe.
Then open'd wide the baron's hall
To vassal, tenant, serf and all;
Power laid his rod of rule aside