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GETS
PRIMARY VOTE
ON PRESIDENCY
A Special Bill Passes
t h e House
Today
TEDDY is GREETED
Heard by Large and Enthusi-
astie Crowds in Iowa and
Minnesota.
TEDDY IS GREETED

Springfield, Hl.-By a vote of 100
to none, the house this morning pass
ed the Senate preferential president
ial primary law, giving the voters
a chance to vote on the question in
the primaries on April 9th. The bill
now les to Gov. Deneen, who is
sure to sign it since he called the
special session for the purpose of
passing the measure. The votes on
the delegates-at-large will be state
wide, while the voting on the con-
g%ressional district delegates will be
confined to the districts.
Roosevelt at Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, 'Wis.-Col. Roosevelt,
en- route from Minnesota to Chicago,
addressed 800 people here for ten
minutes at 9:45 o'colck. This Is the
only speech he makes in LaFollette's
state.
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FIGHT BAN ON MoNoPLANB

Paris, France.-Aviators who es-
pecially favor the monoplane as the
best type of flying machine will
make their protest to the War Office
today against the recent order issu-
ed by that department forbidding
officers and military pupils in avia-
ton from making flights in mono
planes. The War Department has
set the seal of approval on biplanes.
and the order against monoplanes
was the result of alleged proof that
the upper surface Of the monoplane
is no sufficiently strong and that the
frame is too weak generally. The
champion of monoplanes are furious
ove the order and will submit proof
at today's audience approve that the
War Office has been misinformed.
Adherents of the biplane are cor.
re%spondingly jubilant over the slant
taken by the War Office
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
INDIANS ARRESTED
FOR FOUL MURDER
FULL BLOOD SIOUX in CUSTODY
AT SISSETON FOR TAKING
Llr'I OF YOUNG MAN.

Sisseton, S. D.-John Wi-ce-te-
all full-blooded Sioux Indians were
arrested yesterday at a native o n
gregation six miles south OF Sisse-
ton agency by Sheriff Swanson and
his deputies on a charge OF having
committed the revolving murder Of
Roland oudish, the seventeen-year.
old farmer boy, Sunday night last.
High Bear is a Standing Rock reser-
Walton Ind an who has been in The
locality but a short time, and the
other two are members of the no
torious Seven Brothers band of Sis
seton Sioux Indians which for
many years terrorized the white res
idents of their immediate vicinity in
the eastern part of the county along
the shores OF Big Stone and Traverse
lakes.
At the time of their capture the
Indians We're participating in a ma
tive dance, in full regalia and gaudy
war paint. The meeting was being
held indoors and was attended by
upwards of fifty Indians, male and
female. At the time the house was
surrounded and the Indians arrested
the squaws and bucks We're seated In
rows ranged symmetrically around a
large room squatting upon the floor
and filling the room to its capacity.
The rows, arranged in the form OF
a square We're occupied in the cen
ter by the medicine man vigorously
beating the kettle tomtoms, and the
entire assemblage was chanting a
wierd native ghost-song.
At the time of the murder the
dead boy was stripped of his cloth.
ing, and his watch and simila" trink.
cts, and a shotgun and bulldog re-
volver which he had been known tc
have in the house We're stolen. 1t is
authoritively stated thai the Stand
ing Rock Indian, High Bear, was
seen with these articles in his pos.
session, and that he sold them to
different parties in the rural dis
tricts near the scene OF the atrocious
crime. The ieweller at the village
of Browns Valley is also reported
to have identified the Indian Jonah
Whale as an Indian who attempted
to pawn certain articles of jewelr!
answering the description of the
stolen property.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
ONE ALLEN OUTLAW
GIVES HIMSELF UP
TIRED OF FLEEING AND GOING
WITHOUT SLEEP OR FOOD,
HE SuRRENDERS TO POSSE.

H%illsville, Va.-Starving and fa-
tigued, Claude Swanson Allen came
out of the thickets in the Blue Ridge
late yesterday and gave himself up
to the posse which for nearly two
weeks has hunted him. He is a
prisone in the little brick Jail, a
stones throw from the Carol county
court house, where on March IA the
Allen gang killed the judge, the
prosecutor, the Sheriff and q by
stander.
All day the posse, divided into
small numbers, had been following
a trail thought to be that of Wes-
ley Edwards, a nephew of the Aliens.
Claude Allen, the son of Floyd
Allen, who was the cause of the
court house Shooting, had been CIV
en- up as having escaped. Detective
Lucas and four men were working
toward Floyd ALIENS house, when,
25 yards or so off the Mt. Airy road.
a figure. creeping stealthily, through
the underground, was dimly seen
through the mist. The pursuere
brought their rifles to their shoulders
when, to their surprise, Allen STEP
ped out into the road his hands
appraised, a pistol in each.
I'm glad to get a chance tt
come" he sad. II have not SLEPT
in a bed since the shooting. I'm
hungry"
The young mountaineer swung ir
behind the men who had been hunt
ing him and they started back tc
Hillsville. Claude's capture give:
renewed hope for the capture of the
three remaining fugitives, Sidna AL
len, his nephew Friel and Wesley
Edwards. Claude stoutly denied
any knowledge of the hiding place
of the three.
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TEST BOARDS RIGHT
no REGULATE PHONES
CLAIMED IN SIOUX FALLS SUIT
STATE COMMISSION SHOULD
NOT HAVE AUTHORITY CIV
ZEN BY LAW.

Sioux Falls, S. D.-Questioning
the authority of the state railway
commission to enforce its order re-
garding the switching of a rival
telephone company over its switch
board, the Beresford Telephone com
pany has entered a demurrer before
Judge Jones in the circuit court,
to the complaint of the commission,
that the company has not complied
with it's order.
The North Star Telephone COM
pany which is a rural concern, and
operates in the vicinity Of Beres-
ford, and has three lines running
into that city, entered complaint
with the board of railway commits
sioners on January IA, 1911, against
the Beresford company. 1t alleged
that while it has Il switching ar
rangement with the Beresford com
pany and that company will con
company with II of it's W sub
scribeTs, it will not connect a sub
scriber on one of the North Sta
lines to a subscriber on another lin
of the same company.
The board in its findings of fac
and law, handed down May 90, hell
that the companies were competitor
but that the North Star compan,
only lased one prone to each o
its stockholders and to no outsiders
and hal the Beresford compan,
should therefore do the SWITCHING
for the North Star company at
cost not to exceed % cents per tele
phone per year.
The commission now alleges tina
the Beresford company has faile
to comply with its order and ask
the court to issue a peremptory wri
of mandamus to compel the Beres
ford company to carry out the in
structions of the commission.
In it's demurrer, asking the dis
missal of the suit, the defendar
company denies the legal power c
the board 10 make such an order, BIZ
cause it in a measure deprives tn
company of the control of it's prof.
eTty.
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RAILROAD GIVEN
DECISION IN CLASS
OVER NEW STATION
Judge Carpenter Re-
fuses to Back
Commission
NEAR STATE LINE
New Town Was Wanted.
Chiefly for Saloons, the
Road Claimed

Aberdeen, s. D.-Judge c. C. Car
penter of Lennon has just handed
down an important decision affect
ing the railroads of the state, in the
White Butte case. On May 2, 1911,
on complaint of the residents Of
White Butte, in Perkins county, the
South Dakota railway commission
ordered the Milwaukee road to build
n station and install an agent and
put in sidetracks at White Butte,
within thirty days.
The railroad company refused to
comply with the order, and on July
20 n hearing was held at White But
an order was made compelling the
railroad to put in a suitable station
platform and sidetracks and install
an agent by November /.
On November 9 Judge Carpenter
issued an alternative writ of manda-
mus, compelling the railroad COM
pany either to comply with the or
der of the commission Or show
cause why it should not.
The company in its nsw claim
ed no public necessity existed for es-
tablishing q station at White Butte,
and that inasmuch as White Butte
was but A 1-2 miles from Petrol, N.
D., and but 6 miles from Haynes, N.
d., those two stations being less than
IL miles apart, the commission could
not compel the railroad to install
the station as demanded, holding the
South Dakota code provides stations
cannot be established by order OF
the commission unless existing sta.
tions are at least twelve miles apart,
The railroad also contended that
the effort to have a station placed at
White Butte was inspired by a few
men who had established a saloon
at the point and wanted a station sc
they could profit from the trade
from North Dakota, a prohibition
state. Judge Carpenter has just up
held the contention of the railroad
that the distance between Petrol anG
Haynes, ever though both are in
| North Dakota, is not sufficient to jus
tify the court in enforcing the com
missions order. The railroad com
pany contends the decision of the
court is important, as if the com
missions contention had been up
held railroad companies might have
been harrassed in the future by eff
forts of townsite companies to sc
cure railroad stations where no rea
necessity or demand existed.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
L0R|MER IS CLEARED
BY COMMITTEE VOTE
FIVE OF EIGHT MEMBERS VOTE
FOR SECOND ACQUITT.AL OF
CHARGE OF GIVING BRIDES.

Washington, d. C.-Senator Lori
mel of Illinois, today won an over
whelming v%indication at the hands
of the special committee of eight
senators who have finished a second
investigation of his election by the
Illinois Legislature in 1909. Twice
challenged and once acquitted, the
committee, by a vote of five to three
on all vita. points, completely exon
Grated him of any knowledge of leg
islative corruption.
Edward Hines, the millionaire
lumberman referred to in the com.
mittees as the man who put Lori
mer over" also got a v%indication by
the committee.
1t has been charged thal Hines
raised a corruption fund of 100000
to elect Lorimer to the Senate. The
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04

Pierre, S. D.-The foreign stock
fire insurance companies will this
year pay into the fund which goes
directly to the firemen of the state
$22,413, which is practically two
thousand dollars more than for last
year. Out of the money to be paid
in this year the leading cities of the
state will get: Aberdeen %$1712.93;
Deadwood S1197.S5. Lead $953.70;
Huron yo12.06; Pierre $417.43;
Rapid City, $534.36; Sioux Falls,
$2436.79; Watertown $772.95;
Yankton, $420.45. Mitcehll $636.65.
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656 to 242, was there a doubt as
to the adoption of the program
agreed upon by Taft leaders.
The Roosevelt adherents, although
hopelessly outnumbered, carried
their fight to the floor of the con-
vention, but the minority report, in
dorsing Roosevelt, and recommend
ing that two delegates at large be
given to the Roosevelt forces, was
rejected overwhelmingly.
The delegates at large follows:
United States Senator ~Guggenheim,
I. II. Deyine, Jefferson Farr. Craw-
ford Hin. \. NJ. Stevenson. Irving
l%iowvert, \. NJ. Parrish and j. f.
Mcdonald.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
JAPAN GETS RIGHTS
ON MEXICAN COAST
UNITED STATES EXPECTED TO
PROTEST AGINST AGREE.
MENT, UNDER MONROE
DOCTRINE.

New York City.-A SPECIAL cable
from Toxic to the Evening Telegram
says that Japan has succeeded in Sc
curing the l~ong-coveted concessions
in Magdalena Bay from Mexico. ia
pan has a settlement there and has
for a long time tried to secure defin-
lite rights in the locality from Mex
leo. The United States has feared
that in this way Japan would secure
a military station at an advantage
eous point and now the United
States is expected to protest against
the agreement, under the Monroe
doctrine.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
LITTLE INTEREST IN
LICENSE QUESTION
WILL NOT BE MUCH OF ISSUE
IN CITY ELECTIONS in THE
BLACK HILLS.

Lead, S. prom present indi-
cations, the annual spring elections
in the Black Hills this year which
will be held April 18th, will not be
as vigorously contested as usual.
In Lead, Deadwood, Belle Fourche
and Hot Springs there will be con-
tests for the local offices but in no
case has the opposition proved bit
ter and the old time election excite
ment appears to be lacking this
year. Liquor has heretofore been
an element in the local elections that
has reused some feeling but this too
appears to be dormant this year and
there is so far no organized opposi-
ton to the w, is" in any of the
twenty odd towns in the Hills which
vote on the proposition and license
is not likely to be much of an issue
this spring.
Lead. the second largest city in
the state, holds its first election UNI
der the commission form when il
will choose a mayor and two comis-
sioners. Six candidates are out for
commissioner, while the present
Mayor Harry Howard, who is serv-
ing under the old form OF govern
ment, is n candidate for the same
office in the commission form, with
out opposition.
Belle Fourche also tries out ar
election under the three commits.
sioner plan and has plenty of candi
dates for the offices. Rapid City
which has been under the commits
sion form lor a year, has the same
condition.
In Deadwood the contest center.
over the mayoralty fight. w. E
Adams seeks another term as mayo
and is opposed by Barney Mullen.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
COMMISSION TO HAVE
HEARING AT MITCHELL
RAILROAD BOARD WILL GO INTO
WESTERN CLASSIFICATION
OF FREIGHT RATES AT THE
MEETING.

Pierre, S. Dat the meeting Of
the state railway commission here
yesterday, the commission fixed April
2 at Aberdeen; April 8 at Watertown
April 4 at Sioux Falls; April 5 at
Mitchell and April 6 at Deadwood, as
dates TO meet with shippers in con
sideration of the schedules proposed
by the railroads as their new west
ern classification rate. This state,
with ten other western states is OPP
posing the putting into effect of the
proposed new rate, and the whole
matter will be threshed out before
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04

New York City-Singing the "star
%Spangled Banner 24O happy child
rem passed through here this morn
ing on their way from Philadelphia
to the homes of their parents in
Lawrence, Mass. They are the child
rem of strikers there, over whom
the strikers and police rioted at
Lawrence because the parents want
ed to send lnem away.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
TWENTY YEAR RECORDS
BROKEN BY FLOODS
PLATTE RIVER HIGHEST 1T HAS
BEEN IN THAT TINIE.-lOWA
RIVERS ON RANIPAGGS.

Lincoln, Neb.-Flood conditions
along the Platte river were worse
last night with ice moving out and
twenty years. Seven spans of the
Burlington railroad bridge near Co
lumbus went out today. The wagon
bridges at Schuyler and Louisville
were partly wrecked by the floating
ice and are impossible.
The Rock Island bridge at South
Bend. which was out of commission
but was repaired during the night
suffered worse damages yesterday
afternoon, and trains are again be-
ing routed over Burlington tracks
between Omaha and Lincoln.
At Fremont only the new dixie
prevents flooding port of the town.
Water is running over the Union
Pacific tracks between Fremont and
North Bend and traffic is badly ham
pered. Several feet OF Burlington
track has been washed out near
Ulysses. Railroad mel see no pros
pect of early improvement.
Six hundred families at Columbus
We're forced tonight TO hurriedly
leave their home by a rush OF back
water which swept down into the
low lying sections.
No trains are running on the
Union Pacific tonight from Grand
island east, all traffic of that line
being routed over the Burlington
tracks, via Lincoln.
The Norfolk river overlooked its
banks at Norfolk, flooding the east
ern section of the city.
Des Moines, Ia.-Warm weather
of the past two days has caused the
ice to break in the Des Moines liv-
en-. An immense ice gorge has
formed near Gordon, fifteen miles
north, and has caused the lowlands
in that part of the COUNTRY to be
overtlowed with water. =
The gorge has wedged itseli
against the Gordon briage and
threatens to carry it out.
Walnut creek, five miles west o.
town, has risen to such an extent
that thousands of acres of lowlands
are inundated.
DROWN in CEDAR FLOOD.
Cedar Rapids, la.-James Colgar
and wife. living on an island in the
Cedar river lea here. were drowned
last evening while trying to escape
from the high water. They tool
their five children to the mainland
and then set about removing theil
household goods. A cake of ice de
molished their boat and Colgan anc
his wife persisted. A son who wa!
with them succeeded in getting L,
shore.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
ROOSEVELT WINNER IN
PRIMARIES AT PORTLAND.

Portland, Me.-Friends of former
President Roosevelt succeeded in
carrying five of the nine wards in
this city at last nights caucusses to
choose delegates to the state and
district convention. The ballots
used were headed Taft delegates
and Roosevelt delegates" Thirty
two favorable to Mr.. Taft and 40
for Roosevelt were elected.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04

Rock Island , Ill.-Six hundred
soldiers We're on guard all night in
this city to prevent rioting. A doz-
en- arrests were made OF citizens
who refused to keep moving. The
soldiers will remain for some time.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
ROOSEVELT TELLS
VIEWS ON TARIFF
IN TAWNEY'S HOME
ShouldEqual Difference
in Cost Here and
Abroad
TARIFF BOARD
Endorses Idea Urged by Taft
spending Day in
Minnesota
TARIFF BOARD

Cedar Rapids, Iowa.-Col. Roose-
Welt arrived here OF a special train
from st. Louis via Rock Island this
morning. He was met by a crowd
of 1000 people and delivered a
brief speech, saying hat he stands
for progressive ideas and for rule by
the people.
Albert Lea, Minn.-Col. Roosevelt
reached here this afternoon, and in
the home of his political enemy,
James Tawney, former member OF
congress, delivered a tariff speech
similar to that delivered in Sioux
Falls, Sept. 3, 1910. He said that
the tariff should only make up the
difference between the labor cost
here and the labor cost abroad. He
also endorsed the tariff commission
idea which Taft has vigorously urg-
ed throughout his administration.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
n in ID BLOOD.

Watertown. s. Din an effort to
secure the attendance OF Theodore
roosevelt for an address in this city
on either May 30, so and 81, when
three big conventions are TO be held,
the United Commercial Travellers
organization, the South Dakota TRAY
cling Mems association and the South
Dakota Retail Dealers and Hard
ware Mems association, a committee,
consisting of NJ. r. Baskerville. G.
X. Snyder and Wright Tarbell rep
resenting the Watertown CONNER
cial club will meet Mr.. Roosevelt
upon the occasion of his visit to Min
neapolis and ST. Paul on Friday and
extend him a pressing invitation to
be preSen
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
ROOSEVELT SPENDS
BUSY EAY AT ST. LOUIS.

st. Louis, Mo.--Col. Roosevelt
stated his case yesterday to the peo-
pie OF Missouri He made five speech
es in this city and another in East
st. Louis, in which he explained his
political doctrines. The streets We're
drenched with a %downpour of rain,
but Col. Roosevelt found a crowd
awaiting him at the station when he
arrived and large audiences con
fronting him wherever he spoke.
The colonel put in a day which
kept him busy from the time he step
ped from his train before breakfast
until we'll on towards midnight,
when it was time for him to start
for ST. Paul. In addition to maxi
ing six speeches, he attended a
breakfast, luncheon and dinner. is
sued two statements, sent a message
to the Illinois senate, covered a large
part of the city in his jaunt from
place to place by automobile, and
between times found opportunity to
go over the political situation With
the leaders of the Roosevelt cam
paign of Missouri.
Col. Roosevelt's main speech was
delivered last night in the First 1egi-
ment armory. He discussed the
right OF tie people to rule and
talked largely in the same vein as
in his speech in New York last week
upon the same topic. He protested
against the theory ascribed by him
to President Taft that the people
should be ruled by "a representative
part OF the people, and said thai
If the people cannot rule them.
selves then they are not fit for free
government, and democracy is
sham"
In a Commute speech in East st
Louis, Col. Roosevelt referred to the
presidential primary act now before
the Illinois legislature, declaring hi
hoped the people of Illinois would
be permitted to cast their votes a!
they saw fit. Here in Illinois," HI
said, where Lincoln first made hi.
fight for the rights of the plain PEG
pie, We have a peculiar right to asl
your support"
INDIANA DELEGATION STANDS
lS TO 8 FOR THE PRESIDENT
indianapolis, Ind.-IFive congress
sional districts in Indiana yesterda,
erected 10 lne IdliOlldl re
publican convention. two of them
the second and tenth, choosing Tai
men; and three. the sixth, eight
and ninth. electing Roosevelt sup
%porters. Today's action gives Tai
the delegates from seven of tn
states 10 districts and Roosevelt
the delegation from four.
Taft, with the four delegates n
large elected at a special state con
vention, has a total of is an
Roosevelt has S of the Indiana de,
egation of so. The 18th distric
will choose delegates on April Q;
the 18th district on April 2. Cor
tests are expected i'll both and tn
leaders are counting on adding fou
more to their total.
In the sixth district c%onventio
yesterday peculiar conditions pre-
q vailed. The meeting adopted til
Taft resolutions approved by til
g state convention, for harmony
: sake it was said, while Rooseve
o delegates were chosen to the nation
al convention.
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GARFIELD IN PREDICTION
OF THIRD PARTY MOVE

Cleveland, Ohio.-James r. Gar
field, Roosevelt's adherent, believes
failure of the democratic and re-
publican parties to solve political
and industrial problems may result
in a third party.
This is a period of political tram
sition," said Garfield today. "If
both the old parties are to be domin-
ated by reactionaries a third party
is possible"
Garfield says the acquittal of the
Chicago packers is proof of the in
ability of the courts to solve the
trust problem.