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NEW CORN WAREHOUSE
FOR THIS CITY
DAKOTA IMPRONEE. SEED COM
PANf HOLDS DIRECTORS
MEETING AND DECIDES ON
MANY IMPROVEMENTS.

The board of directors of the Da-
meeting Yesterday afternoon at the
office of the secretary at which time it
was definitely decided TO erect a new
seed corn warehouse on the North
western right of way north of ware
house No. 2. TIE new building is to
be IS BY GA feet and 81 feet high.
Work will begin OF it Immediately.
The best systems of drying and
handling the seed corn will be put in
use in the new structure. Modern
machinery and equipment will be in
stalled so that large Quantities OF
corr can be handled with the least
possible waste of time and labor.
Tho demands upon the company the
past year have made the new build
ing IA necessity. S. sa&Y 3s
The past year about Ia. 5000 bushels
of sccd corn were sent out by this
popular concern. The orn is grown
under contract with local farmers,
and notwithstanding the very poor
condition of the majority of seed corn
last year., Tue Sttu pun oHt mas S4NNii
excellent satisfaction and has pro-
duccd 500 stands wherever used,
Seed corn is supplied by the Da-
kota Improved Seed company to all
the Northwestern states, and also
during the past wear it has been ship
ped to Russia, China. urugay, Ven
czula and other foreign points. 1t is
usually shipped in two bushel sacks,
both shelled and on the ear.
This new building does not in any
way duplicate the plan or take the
place Of the new proposed three story
warehouse which will be erected next
year on the lot at the corner of
Railroad and Lawler streets, for
which the foundation is already COM
pleted.
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TEACHER ASSIGNMENTS
FOR COMING YEAR

superintendent McClinton this
morning announced the following as
assignments of the teachers in the
public schools of Mitchell for the
coming school year. Most of the tea
cheers have already arrived in the
city preparatory for the coming work
and those who have not will be here
by Saturday.
High School.
j. w. McClinton, superintendent;
j. c. Lindsay, principal; III. M. Swift.
science: c. ID. Polling, German ana
athletics: Luella Turrell, English:
Anna White, English; Irving Gar
wood, English and debate, Cora p,
Sletten, botany; Effie f. Putney, Lat
in; Alma Mitchell; mathematic; c. 5.
Hall, mathematics; Emma S. Weld,
domestic science. Manual training to
be supplied.
Central school.
Ella Linklater, principal and un-
graded work; Lilly A. Patterson, de-
work; Cora TRACER, de-
partmental work; Ethel Jones, de-
partmental work; Frances Leavitt.
departmental work: Susie Smith, de-
partmental work; Nallietta Flory, de
partmenta1 work; Alice Maxwell, de-
partmental work; Beatrice Cameron,
sixth grade; Amalia Opperman, fifth
grade; Elsie Hardy, fourth grade;
Martin Curtiss, manual training n
drawing; Mabel Price, supervisor,
music and drawing.
Whittier School.
Elsie Benedict, first grade and
principal; Margaret Jones. first and
second grade; Tilda Reierson, second
grade: Julia l.. Dahl, third grade:
Lois ID. Wiltse, third and fourth
grades.
Lincoln School.
Helen Walker, first grade and
principal; Alice Pierce, second grade;
Maude E. Johnston, third grade;
Nina F. Berkeley. fourth grade.
Lo%ngfelIow school.
Nellie Nj. Lindsey, first grade and
principal; Hazel l. Dickey, second
grade Mary f. Cook, third and fourth
grades; Florence Shelby, fifth grade;
Angelina Puskett. sixth grade.
Eugene Field school.
Blanche Hewitt, first grade and
principal; Nettie b. Field, second and
third grades: Cecilia McGrath,
fourth and fifth grades.
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FATHER BREAKS UP
MARRIAGE PLANS
~ trT7T---- ,nyoa III EtJS
HE is ARRESTED BY PROSPEC.
TIVE SON-IN-LAW AND MAY
FACE SUIT FOR DAM.
AGES. 9tE

Alexandria, S. D.-A father virtu-
ally tearing his daughter from the
arms of the young man she was about
to marry and forcing her to accom-
pany him home, and the arrest of the
father on a warrant sworn out by the
disappointed lover of his daughter,
with a suit for breach of promise now
threatened, are features OF a sensa-
tional episode in Hanson county.
Miss Lilly Huge and William Reed,
employed on a farm near the resid-
ence of Miss Houge, had all arrange
ments made to get married, and had
sent out invitations of the approach
ing event. One OF the invitations was
sent to the father of the girl, and it
is alleged this was the first intima-
ton he had that his daughter ex-
pected to be married. Miss Houge
was temporarily stopping at the
home of the prospective groom's sis
ter when the irate father appeared
their home. The prospective groom
then got busy and caused the arrest
of the father on the charge of assault
and battery upon the person OF his
daughter.
During the trial of the father the
daughter denied the charge of her
lover and stated that her father had
not used her roughly at all. The girls
sticking by her father was a shock
TO the prospective groom who when
the father was acquitted proposed
that the girl and himself be married
at once on consideration that he
would stop all proceedings. This pro-
position did 10 look good to the
father and he promptly turned it
down. Reed now threatens to insti-
tute a breach of promise suit and fur
Their developments are awaited.
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DIXON ENTHUSIASTIC OVER
PROGRESSIVE PARTY OUTDOOR

Chicago, Ill.--A song of victory
went up from the Progressive lead
ters today with the return of Senator
Joseph Dixon, manager of the nation
al campaign, to complete the organi-
cation in Chicago, where headquart-
ers will be. Senator Dixon dubbed
over with enthusiasm at the reports
he brought from the East and his
conference of last week with Roose-
welt. He declared the New York office
is organized and the work in ether
division headquarters will be taken
up in a few days.
"We're going to carry Massachus-
etts." declared Senator Dixon. "The
Roosevelt strength there is wonder
full. 1t is almost unbelievable. The
new propaganda appeals to workers
on it's economical side-minimum
wage, industrial insurance and old
age pensions. Rooseyelt's New Eng
land trip was a sensation.
Strong in the Factories.
"Why" said Dixon, .'the republi-
cans are SO weak that it is my honest
conviction that Taft may not carry
a single state. Here is one report Of
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a poll of Tlffany's establishment at
New York with 693 Roosevelt votes
out of eight hundred. And another
from Waltham Watch company that
not a single vote was found there
against Roosevelt. And SO it goes
everywhere.
Governor johnson will open III
Western campaign at Salt Lake City
August %, and then nov eastward,
while Colonel Roosevelt moves west
ward. We have fine reports from the
Mormon country and we will carry
Utah, as we'll as all other states west
of the Missouri. Colonel Roosevelt
will speak in every state west of
the Mississippi and Governor johnson
will campaign at the same time in the
East. After Roosevelt ends his West
ern trip at Memphis September 90,
he will invade the South, speaking in
New Orleans, Atlanta and Raleigh
and other cities"
Tom Watson Il Progressive :,
One of the interesting details of
II Senator's talk revealed the fact
that Tom Watson of Georgia has
come out for Colonel Roosevelt. For
NAL announcement of the treasurer
of the Progressive campaign and all
except three of the nine members of
the executive staff was made by SEN
ator Dixon. E. II. Hooker of Niagara
Falls, a manufacturer who was dep
uty commissioner of public works
under Roosevelt, has been agreed
on to guarantee the finance. The ex-
ecutiye committee as settled is:
George w. Perkins, New York,
chairmas; Judge Ben B. Lisdsey,
Denver; Miss Jane Adams, Chicago;
Dewey, Chicago; George c..
Priestley, oklahoma; Meyer Lissner.
San Francisco.
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HILLS CROPS
MAKE NEW RECORD
CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE OF
THEIR VALUE PUTS IT AT
$1,000, 900.

Deadwood, s. D.-Harvesting of
the 1912 cropsain the Black Hills,
always later than other sections OF
the state, has commenced and as
indicated. the crops will break all
records for this part of the country.
A careful and very conservative es-
innate OF the total crop output from
the Black Hills country this fall is
So, 100000, far in excess OF any
thing heretofore.
Estimates of how the crops run
have been made by those familiar
with this work and are believed to
be approximately correct. There will
be about 100000 bushels of wheat,
900, 900 bushels of oats, 200, 900
bushels of corn, 10000 tons of al
falfa, $1,000 ions OF nctive hay and
$4,000 bushels OF potatoes, be-
side a scattered crop of flax, barley,
mated, and an extraordinary produc-
ton of garden vegetables.
1t is the first time that oats and
hay will be exported from the Hills
and the first year that this section
has grown enough wheat and vege-
tables for its own consumption,
which shows the magnitude of the
crop as the population of the Black
Hills is 10000.
on the land under the government
irrigation project there is 11,214
acres in wheat, $50 acres in oats,
$500 acres in corn, 4,64O acres in
alfalfa, 1890 acres in native hay and
440 acres in potatoes. The rest of
the Hills will produce about twice
as much of all these with the ex-
ception of alfalfa which is five times
rs great.
The estimated run of the grains
md produce is: Wheat 20 bushels
o the acre; oats, SO bushels; corn,
10 bushels; alfalfa, four tons to the
acre: native hay, / ton and a quar-
ter to the acre and $50 bushels Of
potatoes to the acre.
This ~ the estimate. furnished to
the railroads and on which the
farmers of the Black Hills are has
ing their claims for a
winter this year and there is little
reason to believe that thu figures
are anything but conservative and
that good conditions from now on
will not tend to increase, IL any
thing these estimates.
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WILSON CAMPAIGN
WILL Be DIRECTED
AGAINST ROOSEVELT
Realized That Taft Is
Not In The
Race
GIVES VIEW
Tells Wilson Something Must
Be Done to Head Off
the Progressives
GORE GIVES VIEW

Washington, ID. Cit has become
known in Washington that the man
ayers of the Woodrow Wilson cam
paign are considerably disturbed be-
cause of the backwardness of the
work. They say that at this time
the work should be much further ad-
vanced and that thus far the COM
paign has not gotten off on the right
foot. They are paying little atten-
ton to Taft but the advance of the
Progressives has given them much
cause for worry.
Chairman McCombs is HI and, from
reports, his condition is so critical as
to Il the belief that he will not
be able to take charge of the cam
paign work for a month and, possibly
will not recuperate sufficiently to
again take the saddle at all. Mr..
McCombs is something of an invalid.
He is not strong and has not been
we'll for several years. The strain of
the Baltimore convention and the
campaign subsequent to it are said
to have been too much for his
strength. He has excellent men as
sisting him but unfortunately their
excellence does not lie in the manage
ment of a presidential campaign.
Gore Alarmed ut Progressive Gains.
1t is known that only a few days
ago Senator Gore of Oklahoma hur-
ried over to Seagirt and urged that
something be done, and that very
quickly, to get some life into the
campaign. Senator Gore is said to
have told the leaders he had certain
knowledge Roosevelt was rapidly
making inroads into the Wilson field
and something should be done to stop
that, because the theory among the
Democrats is that the Bull Moose
ticket is to draw it's strength only
from the Taft tick t..
Taft Not Considered in the Race.
J%osephus Daniels, member of the
executive committee of the national
committee, at Democratic he%adquar-
tiers, is in New York constantly try
ing to get more ginger into the
game. Former Representative
Jameson of Iowa, who did splendid
work for Champ Clark in the race
for the nomination, is also among
the steady aids.
In Washington it is a cloakroom
dbli' uIlOnS PSlllOtl hllC lJGII-
bers of the iIous and Senate that
Wilson, to win, must beat Roosevelt.
Taft is not considered in the money.
The leaders have told members
when they take the stump, after
Congress had adjourned, to center
their fire or the Bull Moose and pay
scant attention to the President.
New England Progrcssivism u Sur
prise.
Attention is being called to the
wonderful meeting given Roosevelt
in New Enpland, where it was
thought the old republican party
would II that ALLEGED conservative
portion of the country to give the
Progressive party small encourage
ment. In other words, the Demo
cratic senators and House members
are making up their minds that in
strongly republican states Taft will
not be able to draw sufficiently
from the Roosevelt strength to per
nit Wilson to carry them. "Unless,'
it is added, 'the national demo-
cratic headquarters displays a dis
position to show more pep"
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DEMOCRATS ASK COURTS TO
ADD TO THEIR TICKET

Pierre, S. D.-T. TT. Null, repre-
senting the democratic state commit
tee, is here today and presented an
amended nominating petition to the
secretary of state, in an attempt to
get the name of Robert p. Stewart of
Deadwood on the regular democratic
ticket as a candidate for supreme
court judge from the first district.
The petition was turned down by
Assistant Secretary Nelson and Mr..
Null will ask the supreme court for
an order compelling action. AS but
two of the Judges are in the city,
there will be no hearing on the APP
%plication until some time after the
middle of next month. When the 9th
er judges return from their vaca-
tions.
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MI. ~Roosevelt's bureau of corpora
tons in May, 1906. Within three
months after that date every such
rate criticized by the bureau as illeg-
al was Cancelled by the railroads max
ing the rates. That voluntary action
by the railroads more than justified
the conclusion of the Roosevelt adj
ministration that there had been in
existence for a long time a system of
railway determinations in favor OF
the Standard in almost every section
of the country.
Brought Millions to Standard.
The Standard underSold compet-
itors in the Southwest by means of
that G-cent rate TO the ST. Louis gate
way, and, having undersold them
and driven them out of that territory
it then raised prices to Il monopoly
figure so that lis marketing concern
there was making more than $50
per cent on its capital stock in 1900.
The enjoyment of this discrimina-
tion was worth many millions OF
dollars to the Standard.
May 10. 1907, Herbert Knox
Smith, commissioner of corporations,
who had been making an inVestiga-
ton of pipe lines by direction of Pre-
sident Roosevelt, made public the
report on the oil trust which showed
how the pipe lines of the Standard
controlled the oil industry. That re-
port accused the o. trust of scandal
Gus, oppressive and unlawful acts in
gaining its tremendous power. 1t said
the monopoly was built up first by
railway favoritism, second by gain
ing control OF all pipe lines, often by
wrongful acts, and third by unfair
selling methods.
Facts Gathered by Garfield.
The facts ON which these conclu-
sions were based in the report of
1907 We're gathered in the inquiry
begun by Garfield in 1909. He pre-
viousiy had made public his conclu-
sions on railway transportation. The
1907 section of the report dealt al
most wholly with the pipe line situa-
Other sections were withheld
by order of President Roosevelt be-
cause the publication of the facts
might hamper the prosecution of the
and its subsidiaries by the gov
eminent.
The big government suit institute
ed by the Roosevelt administration
for the dissolution of the Standard
was begun November 16. 1906, by
Attorney General Bonaparte in the
Eastern District of Missouri in an
equity proceeding to dissolve the oil
combination. A decree in favor of the
government was filed November 30,
1909. The case was argued on appeal
in the United States Supreme court.
which reversed its opinion May 10,
1911, ordering the dissolution OF the
Standard Oil Company.
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CITIZENS OF PRESHO
BOOST GOOD ROADS
EIGHT AUTOMOBILE LOADS
MAKE TRIP TO PIERRE OVER
ROUTS OF PROPOSED
HIGHWAY.

Presho, s. D.-That the Great
Plains Canal road is an assured fact
vas indicated by eight auto. loads OF
Good Roads and Irrigation Boosters
who attended the very successful
meeting of the Good Roads Congress
at Pierre.
State Engineer Lea put this road
upon the map and Ben NJ. Wood OF
Rapid City, secretary of the new
state organization has heartily en-
dorsed the road and has promised it
the ~neceshary attention as have 9th
er officers of the new association.
The irrigation project was not dis
cussed at the convention beyond APP
proving the canal road, as the meet
ing was primarily for the a OF
perfecting a State Good Road asso-
citation. However, the election of the
officers indicated that the Great
have the hearty cooperation of the
good roads officials.
A mapped and logged road from
Presho to Ft. Pierre is assured and
the extension of this road northwest
river will follow "A survey and in
OF lhe mosl pIdcllcdpie
route.
The construction and logging OF
this new road will mean the opening
up OF the Last Great West" to the
tourist and investor from the East
and South.
The citizens of Presho as Good
Roads and Irrigation Boosters were
heartily commended by the press
and people of Pierre for their enthus-
iastic interest in the Good Roads
movement and general development
of South Dakota.
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HOW ROOSETELT Has
FOUGHT OIL Il
Started Rebate Case That Led to Fine of $50, 900 by Judge
land1s.-Began Prosecution for Violation of Anti
Trust Law that Ended in Conviction by
y. S. Supreme Court
u. S. Supreme Court

Washington, ID. C.-While i'm tho
White House President Roosevelt in.
stitutcd various Investigations of the
violation of the Sherman and anti.
rebatlng laws by the Standard OH
Company and it's subsidiaries. He
conducted them without fear or fay-
or Oh polltlcal consequences. These
Investigations, in fact. We're begun
IN ms hrst term, but the various suits
IN the federal curtis did not material
~" uhiil the evidence was ready for
presentation i'm his first elective term
lhe hrst investigation was begun
by the department of justice and lat
or the department of commerce and
aDo bureau of corporations made
Il sweeping, but careful, investigation
which supplied the department OF
justice with valuable additional data.
The first important scrutiny OF
Standard Oil affairs, with Il view to
prosecution, came in connection with
the violations of the Elkins anti
rebate law by the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana. 1t was in this case,
conducted by direction of President
Roosevelt by eN-District Attorney
Sims of Chicago. that Judge Lands
imposed August 3, 1907, his fine of
S29,2lO,UG0 upon the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana. That was the
%So-callcd "Alton case
Got Two-Thirds Rebate.
ina and all other rebate indict-
mcnts instituted against the Stand
ard was based on a report by Mr..
R%ooscvelt's commissioner of corpora
tions made in May, 1906, setting.
forth in detail the deliberate, long.
continued conduct on the part of the.
Standard in violating the anti-rebate
laws. The question in the case was
n of a published 1S-cent rate to
East st. Louis, as against a secret g.
cent rate. The oil shipments involved
in this so-called Alton conviction
started from Whiting, Ind, the
great refinery of the Standard near
Chicago. and were delivered at St.
Louis. or East St. Louis, Just across
the river, by the Chicago q Alton
railroad. They covered d period from
September |, 1908. to March /, 1905.
In that period 1,462 cars of oil We're
carried from Whiting to East st.
Louis owe the Alton road for the
Standard at the rate of six cents a
hundred, just one third of the pub
lished rate filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commission. There were
other Illegal and secret rates to a
large part of the South by way Of
Grand junction. Tenn. a secret rate
combination from St. Louis to Louis
lana, secret rates from the standards
refinery at Olean. N. Y, into Yer
upon which the New York
Central was convicted and the Stand
ard indicted.
Those rates ali were exposed by
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REEVES WANTS posroFF1CE.

Aberdeen. S. D.. d. Reeves,
former state auditor and in charge of
the postoffice at Groton for the
bondsmen since the arrest and re-
moval of Postmaster j. G. Ropes, has
sent his petition to Washington, ask
ing for the appointment to fill the
vacancy. Mr.. Reeves, who is editor
of the Groton Independent, served as
postmaster during the Harrison ad-
ministration.
The chief of police and the sheriff
are rounding up all the "hoboes" in
Aberdeen, and those who cannot give
a good account of themselves are
either run out of town or lodged in
Jail to await further investigation, as
their cases justify.
A handcar was taken by the
thieves at Warner, and it was found
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at the outskirts of Aberdeen next
morning. The authorities think the
robbers are in hiding in Aberdeen.
Deputy United States Marshall
Byron McNeigh, who is on the case
for the government, is confident the
job was done by "Gunny" McAlleer,
WAC ecaped from pail at Sioux Falls
two weeks ago, where he was held
awaiting trial in federal court for
another p%ostoffice robbery. "Gunny',
one OF whose aliases is Frank Vii
office Jobs.
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BY BULL.

Aberdeen S. D.-While John Cloyd
and Fred Moore of Webster were at
tempting to load IA bull into a wagon
the animal got away and attacked
both men. Moore was knocked down
and the bull was attacking him when
Cloyd rushed to his assistance with IA
pitchfork and was knocked down
and trampled upon in his turn. Other
men rushed to the scene of the acct
dent, and the civtims of the bulls
attack We're rescued after being pain
fully injured.
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the generals work entities him to lie
in Westminster or st. Paul's cathe-
iral, where many Of the other ma
lions greatest heroes of war and
peace are entombed; but his wish
was to be buried beside his wife, and
it is doubtful if the church authori-
ties will make the offer to place the
body in the cathedral.
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LODGE OFFICIALS ARRESTED

Mankato, Mimi. F.. Johnston,
organizer of the order of Owls, was
arrested here today and taken to AL
gonia, Iowa, by the sheriff of that
place to answer to charges growing
out of the organizing work. He de-
clares his innocence.
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