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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-29
DIRT ROAD CONSTRUCTION
Some Practical Suggestions for Dirt
Road Construction in
South Dakota.

(By H. G.. Solberg, Professor of Me-
chanical Engineering, State College,
Brookings, S. d.
During the past few months sever
al highways have been projected
across the state, and some of them are
designated as "transcontinental high
ways" The time is near at hand
when the actual work of road con-
struction must be begun. otherwise
these projected highways will not be
Of any particular benefit to anybody.
Hence, a few suggestions as to the
ton may be in order and perhaps of
considerable value.
If a road is intended for interstate
travel, 1t must be constructed SO as
to be suitable for all kinds of high
way traffic; hence a few fundamental
principles must be observed in the
construction of this road, that have
heretofore been absolutely neglected
in all local road construction in South
Dakota. The most important is the
width of roadway.
If we assume that no work has been
done on the road; the simplest way
to proceed will be as follows: First,
set stakes twenty feet apart for the
main roadway. This should be done
the full length of road so as to make
it straight. Then, outside Of this
twenty foot limit, start the blowing,
and pillow ten feet wide on both sides.
Then move the sod from the outside
to the center making the roadway as
nearly level as possible.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-29
Pulverize the Sod.

After all the sod is moved into the
roadway use a sod cutter and thor
oughly pulverize all sod. Do not I'M
to remain in Jumps and rot, for it will
absorb moisture and continue to set
tie uneven for at least two years.
thus producing holes in the roadway,
that will make it unfit for any and
all kinds of traffic. First pulverize
the sod, then put more dirt on the top.
If the rest of the dirt is lumpy pull
verize that also; it will then pack
even.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-29

Viii our Color Pk1nt
you can euJtH haze the
most a~rtistie home in Jour
nerphborhood.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-29

load will seek the center Of the road.
way at ono instead Of the usual GUS
tom OF trying to avoid newly con
structed roads. One steam roller own.
ed by each county would be sufficient
for all road work in that ounty
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-29

Alabastine Company
81 G~rsndville Road. Grand Rapids, Mich.
New York City. Desk Z. los Water St
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
BOMB Is SENT TO JUDGE
IN FAMOUS BANDIT CASE
hosaisky Library Wrecked and lnspec-
tor Badly Hurt by Ma
chine.

New York. = A plot to assassin
ate Judge A. Rosalsky of the
court or general sessions and who
is the presiding Judge in the Brandt
trial. came very near being success
ful, when he opened a package which
he received through the mails.
1t was only defect-sa1d to be a
small accumulation of dirt--in the
mechanism OF the Internal machine,
which the justice had unsuspectlngly
opened, that saved him from proba bic
death or certain injury.
The bomb later exploded while be-
ing examined by Inspector Owen Egan
OF the bureau of combustibles, intiict-
ing injuries to the official which may
cause death. The library of the apart
ment was wrecked.
The intended victim was Judge Ro-
salsky, who sentenced FoIke E. Brandt
to a thirty-year term for burglary at
Mortimer l.. Schiff's home IN 1907. and
VINO recently reversed his action.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
MUNICIPAL SPRING
PRIMARY RESULTS
Voters Choose Candidates in
Wisconsin Cities.
BADlNG WINS IN MILWAUKEE,
Beats Congressman Cary 2 to in
Non Parusan Contest for Mayor
atty Observation-Disclosures Siedel Is
Again Nominee of Socialists.

Milwaukee. = The non-partisan
ticket, headed by DR.. Gerhard A.
Badlng for mayor, with Joseph p.
Carney for treasurer and Louis NJ.
kotecki for comptroller, was nomi-
mated by vote of two to one at the
municipal primaries over the ticket
headed by Congressman William ].
Cary. With six precincts missing the
vote was, Bading, 25,375; Cary, IA
35S. The socialist vote for Mayor
Seidel was 16,322-5,0OO more than
in the primary two years ago. The
combined vote for Bading and Cary
shows majority of 23,411 over the
vote of Seidel, socialist, and Bading's
vote alone is 9,043 more than
Seidels. The total vote cast is near
$4,000.
Madison.-John B. Helm, former
superintendent of the city water
works department, was nominated
mayor on the democratic ticket. He
defeated former Aid. Schmedeman,
chairman of the democratic state
central committee, and Aid James
P. Hyland. A. G. Kroncke was nom
mated for mayor on the republican
ticket without opposition.
Portage.-M. J. Downey, the pres
ent incumbent, and e. S. Baker, were
nominated for mayor.
Rice Lake,. G. McClelland and
M. S. Hines were nominated for may
or and T. J. Tucker, Timothy Der
gan, Henry Wiz and George A
Bairer for councilmen.
Menomonie. - j. R. Matthews,
present incumbent, and Carl Pieper,
were nominated for mayor Four
were nominated as councilmen out
of a field of twelve
Superior.-F. J. Van Buren,. Clean
Government club candidate, and Jo-
seph S. Konkel, were nominated for
mayor over five other candidates in
the first primary under the commits
sion government. ...
Janesville.-Jame A. Father and
James Cronin were chosen candi-
dates for mayor in the first primary
election under the new commission
form of government
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
BhTTLESHIP MAINE Is
SUNK FOR LAST TIME
Old Hulk Is Buried in Sea Near Scene
of Disaster With Military
Honors.

Havana. The remains Of the
nonored and much loved old bat
teship Maine were sunk in the ocean
today with appropriate ceremony
near the scene of the disaster of Feb
ruary Is. 1898
The obsequies attending the burial
were full military. just as though
the old hulk was human. There
was a parade Of naval escort,
the booming of ships guns in salute
and the soldiers and sailors doxology-
taps.
Following the funeral ceremony for
the dead men came the obsequies
for the honored ship. The North Caro-
lima and BirmingL am attached giant
tow lines from their sterns 20 the
bulk-headed half of the Maine and the
march to the burial grounds was be-
gun.
When the cortege reached the
burial ground, which is about nine
miles from Havana harbor. the chap
lain of the North Carolina offered
prayer, after which the bulk-heeds in
the Maine were opened and she sank
IN sixty fathoms of water.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
Indian Girls Good Shot.

One of the prettiest exhibitions of
craftsmanship ever seen here was
witnessed by crowd In the vicinity
of the postoffice.
One Of the halyards attached to a
flag on a high pole of a riding de-
vice snapped and the flag and halyard
twisted themselves into the pulley in
such way that it was impossible to
get the flag down. The manager Of
fered $25 to any one who would get
the flag down. Wenona, an Indian
girl, overheard him and procured her
rifle.
From where she stood to where the
flag was flying from the pole was fully
500 feet. The pulley was so well con-
cealed by the flag that only a small
piece of the top of the eyelet was
visible. Carefully sighting, Wenona
fired. and the first shot cut the pulley
from the pole and sent the flag flying
down.-Venice Correspondence Den
yer Times.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
FROZEN FODDER INJURIOUS
Siage Feed Gives Burnt Flavor to
Butter in University Exhibits
Also Poisonous to Cattle.

Madison.-The feeding of frozen
silage to dairy COWS resulted in the
butter having a burnt flavor when it
was scored in the March exhibit at
the College of Agriculture of the
University of Wisconsin
Some of the buttermakers said
that the butter was made from cream
secured from farmers who were
feeding their COWS damaged silage
and damaged shredded fodder. In
some cases the fodder was shredded
last fall while it was wet and dur
ing the winter it had nodded, and
in some cases was so badly spoiled
that it was black.
Frozen silage and spoiled fodder
are not only bad from the point Of
view of buttermaking, but, as the
university authorities pointed out
some time ago, such feeds often pOis-
on cattle.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22

Carrying Rifles, They Open Pur-
suit of CIanSmen.
WOMAN Is KILLED IN CABIN
Wife of Sidna Allen Shot DEED and
Husband Is Seriously Wounded by
Pursuers In Commandment of
Cabin in Mountains.

Hillsville. Va. - A dispatch sent
by Attorney General Williams. who
is here investigating the tragedy
that resulted in the deaths of five
persons when mountain outlaws shot
up the county courthouse. says that
1t is probable that armed friends
of the Allen brothers will attempt to
Williams said the situation was so
precarious that he would not discuss
it even with Governor Mann at Rich
mond. Double guards have been
thrown around the Jail.
Sidna and Floyd Allen. two Of the
chiefs of the band which rode to the
Carroll county courthouse Thursday
and assassinated Judge Massie. Prose
cutor Foster and Sheriff Webb, are in
custody. both wounded severely.
Sidna Aliens wife is dead. She was
shot in a battle with a posse in the
mountains while helping defend her
outlaw husband.
The fifth death was that Of Miss
Nancy Ayres, nineteen years old. She
was snot accidentally during the fusll-
lade in the courthouse.
All the free members of the assas-
sin band, probably eighteen, are up In
the mountains toward the North Caro-
lima line. They are well armed and
determined not to be captured.
Attorney General Williams declared
that Stdna Aliens bullets killed Judge
Massie.
Floyd Allen, the cause of the trag-
edy, is In the lookup under heavy
guard, but his wound is not serious
His son Victor. Cabell Strickland and
Byrd Marion were locked up as wit
nesses.
Juror Fowler, who was wounded In
the courthouse firing, is not expected
to live. The wounds Of Kane and
Wordell, other jurors, and of Goad
the court clerk, are not serious.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
FORBlDS AID TO REVOLUTION.
Resolutions in Congress Will Close
Markets for War Munitions.

Washington. Revolutions, fill
clustering expeditions, or the pro-
motion of domestic violence in any
country In Pan-America hereafter may
not hope for war supplies of any de-
scription from the United States
This principle, proclaimed in con-
current resolution, adopted by the
senate at the instance of President
Taft, is practically certain to be
passed by the house.
Though aimed primarily to meet
the inadequacies Of the present neu-
trality laws, to which the Mexican
government called the presidents at
tention, the resolutions when put into
effect will empower President Taft to
prohibit at his discretion, through the
issuance of proclamation, the ex-
portation of munitions of war to any
country with which the United States
is at peace
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
NEBRASKA POSSE
STAYS THREE MEN
Two Escaped Convicts and Cap
tive Victims of Bullets.
THIRD FEL0N Is CAPTURED
Gang Forces Farmer to Accompany
Them as Hostage and He Meets
His Death in Running
FIGHT

Omaha, Neb. = Three men were
killed in a fight between a posse and
the convicts who killed three officials
and escaped from the Nebraska state
penitentiary.
Two of the men killed were mem
bers of the convict gang. The third
was farmer whom they had forced
on the threat of death to aid them in
their fight.
The third convict, Charles Morley,
saved his life by surrendering to the
officers with whom he had fought a
running battle over two and a half
miles of country roads with horses on
the gallop. In the wagon with Morley
were the bodies of John Dowd and
John Taylor, his companions in crime,
and Roy Blunt, the innocent farmer
victim.
Armed with shotguns and revol-
Vers, while their pursuers had repeat
ing rifles, the convicts were within a
few miles of Omaha, where they ex-
pected to find friends who would
shield them, when the fatal battle
took place.
Eight miles from Omaha the officers
caught up with the vehicle carrying
the convicts, Young Blunt was
forced to lash his horses into a rum
but the officers kept up the chase.
When they were within a hundred
yards of the pursued men Briggs and
Trouton opened fire with their rifles.
The convicts replied; their shot came
rafting into the faces of the pursuers
and their horses, but their revolver
bullets were spent in snowdrifts
There was halt when young Blunt
toppled back into the wagon. John
Dowd was the next to fall. Taylor
fell the next instant
Chief Briggs shouted to Morley:
Drop that gun or I'll blow your
head off,"
Morley, who held big revolver,
dropped the weapon and Briggs or
dered him to come forward with
hands up. This Morley did
Briggs and Trouton received slight
flesh wounds as a result of the shoot
ing.
Blunt was twenty-five years old. He
had been married two months. His
young widow is Frustrated.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
Wisconsin News Briefs.

Madison.-The university regents
nave awarded contracts for the con-
struction of the following buildings:
Women's dormitory building, to the
Wisconsin Construction company,
Chippewa Falls, at something over
100000; construction of university
extension and home economics build
ing, to w. H. Grady & Co., Mime
apolis, something over 100000;
equipment of the new biology build
ing, J. H. Findorff, Madison, for
about $26, 900.
Madison.-Instead Of declaring
Assemblyman Ray j. Nye's office as
member of the assembly vacant, as
first reported, the Wisconsin supreme
court left the question open. 1t fail
ed to pass upon the constitutionality
of the two Offices of grain commits
sioner and assemblyman. On all
other points the court was emphatic
in it's rulings in Nye's favor. From
present indication he Will hold both
Offices.
Washington, d. C.-Representa-
tive Davidson has offered an amend.
ment to the river and harbor appro-
priation bill which provides for a
survey of the Fox river in Wisconsin.
with a view to determining what re-
pairs or extension, if any, should be
made to the levee at Portage in the
interests of navigation and to pre-
vent injury to the government works
on Fox river
Chippewa Falls.-Lee Moore. 28.
a brakeman on the 500 line, was in
stantly killed at Auburndale while
attempting to make a flying switch
on an emigrant car
Madison. - According to Game
Warden Shots carp SEEMING under
the supervision of the fish and game
department has been a financial sue
cess for the state as the state re-
ceived more for the fish since last
fall than it did during the preceding
year when commercial fishermen did
the work.
anitowoc.-Joseph Holsen came
to town with an egg believed to be
the record for Wisconsin hens. The
egg measures 70 inches in circum-
ference, endwise, and 81 inches
around, and weighs quarter of
pound.
La Crosse.-That farming under
certain conditions is public nuis-
anee, is the declaration residents in
an exclusive section of town, who
protest against the turning over of
vacant lots to the socialists for truck
gardens for workingmen, on the
ground that it Will injure property.
They threaten to secure an Injunction
if the plan is carried out.
Marinette. A revolver, which
William Lutier, aged IS, son of an
Iron Mountain homesteader, was
loading, was accidentally discharged,
killing James Lutier, aged 4, who
was standing nearby,
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
MINERS FARLEY is ENDED.
Country Menaced by Great Coal Strike
April /.

ApTIt ].
New York-Negotiation between
the anthracite coal operators and rep
resentatives of the miners were alb.
ruptly terminated and the menace of q
great strike beginning April l hangs
over the country
AT the final conference the operators
declined to recede from their stand of
Wednesday, while the union leaders
stood pat. The session thereupon ad-
journed sine die.
President White of the United Mine
Workers said: THE negotiations are
at an end. The operators have even
refused to discuss our demands with
US. There is nothing more to be said.
therefore. We are ready at any time
to consider any proposition which the
operators may make, if it is offered
in fair spirit; but when they issue
a statement and say that it represents
their position from which they will
not recede. discussion is useless"
The general belief is that unless
powerful influences which are at work
to prevent strike bring the two sides
together quickly, April l will see the
inauguration of bitter struggle,
which may involve the bituminous as
well as the anthracite interests
throughout the country.
London.-Having utterly failed to
reach any agreement. the conference
between the coal miners and operators
was broken Off 1t was announced
that the government will now act to
end the strike by introducing a mini
mum wage bill
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
HONOR CLEVELAND IN NEW YORK
Many Prominent Men Give Praise to
Former President.

Former President.
New York. - Exercises commem-
orative of the seventy-ffth anniver-
sary of the birth of Grover Cleve-
land were held in the great hall
Of the College of the City Of New
York. Eulogistic addresses were de-
livered by men who were closely as
ISOLATED with the deceased president
and letters paying tribute to his mem
DRY from President Taft, Governor
Dix of New York, Governor Harmon
of Ohio and others were read.
The exercises were attended by Mrs.
Frances Folsom Cleveland, widow Of
the former president, and Mrs. Daniel
S. Lamont, widow of the secretary of
war in one of the Cleveland cabinets.
Hillary D. Herbert. former secretary
of the navy under Cleveland, also
spoke, while among those who sent
tributes by letter were Richard Olney,
Cleveland's secretary of state; Sena-
tor Hoke Smith of Georgia and David
r. Francis, also members of his cabi-
net; Representative Oscar w. Under
wood. Senator Rayner Of Maryland
and Alton B. Parker.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
NOT ENOUGH THAT He WRITE
Modern Author Is Provided by His
Publisher With Another Less
Pleasant Vocation.

After dinner speaking is a part OF
the trade of authorship nowadays, the
New York correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Times-Star writes The men
who are being featured in the popular
magazines have become peripatetic
pinwheels Of oratory. They are call
ed on to sputter bon mots and spatter
humor as soon as the match is light
ed. The magazines and publishing
houses send their authors to every
banquet within reach The unfor-
Inmates have TO keep their evening
clothes by the bedside, and be ready
to slide down brass pole like fire.
man as soon as a dinner alarm is
sounded. The small fry of writer's at
tend all sorts of dinners, from the an
nual reunion OF the Sons of Sour Mash
to the feast spread by the Amalgamat-
ed Order Of Coach and Town Painters.
But the big chiefs-like the Irwin
Brothers and John O'Hara Cosgrave
and Gelett Burgess-only cover din
ners for which the three mines" are
BOUNDED. Then you can see them
taxicabs, YEARLY getting into the
first part regalia and buttoning col
lars, and muttering the new stuff with
which the diners are to be RECALLED
that night. 1t isn't any wonder that
they get away to the woods as soon as
the woods are opened in the spring.
They have to restore digestion impair
ed by a nightly procession of nine
courses and five wines I've become
a kind or refined wine agent"
said one Of them the other
day. Il ought to put out a sign: All
dinners eaten with neatness and des-
patch. We pride ourselves on our re-
finement There is just one place
where | have it on wine man. He
has to drink wine. It's part Of his
business. Whereas If | drink beer 1t
is regarded as an eccentricity of
genius"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
MARKET REPORT.
Milwaukee, March 20, 1912.

"i"d uhee, Marcn 20, l9lE.
Butter-Creamery, extras, 29c:
prints, soc; firsts, 24025c; seconds,
21@ 24c; renovated, 26@2Sc; dairy
fancy, 25c.
Cheese-American, full cream.
Twins. Tic: daisies, new, 170171hc;
Young Americas, 171a 01Sc; long
horns, 19c; Swiss, 15@171ac.
Eggs-Current receipts fresh as
to quality, 190191ac; recandled. ex-
tras, Fl @ 22c; seconds, 15016c.
Live Poultry-Fowls, 15c; roos-
ters, SC; springers, 15c.
Potatoes Wisconsin, sacked, on
track, 1.07@1.12.
Hay-No. l timothy, 21OO; clio
yer, 1850; No. 1 prairie, 1850.
Wheat-No. 1 northern, HOO
1.12; No. 2 northern, 1890
Ito Il; No. 3 northern, LOO.
Corn-No. 3, yellow, 67%c.
Oats-No. 8, white, SO Il C; stand
ard, 31ac
Wisconsin, 1928; No. 2,
1.29; No. 4, 1.24.
Cattle-Butchers steers, 5000
$751; heifers, 4.1006.60; COWS,
4.60@5.35; feeders, 4.1504.6O;
calves, 6.750S.OO.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, 7.05
@7.15; fair to best light, 6.6O@
$50; pigs, 5.00@5.90.
Sheep-Lambs, 450@7OO; ewes,
4.2505.O0.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
Royalty Travels Incounito.

Nearly every member of the Brit
ish royal family adopts a pseudonym
when travelling otherwise than on
state occasions. The duke and Ouch
ess of Connaught chose the incognito
title of earl and countess of Sussex
when they made their continental
journeys. and Princess Louise, Ouch
ess of Argyll, and the duke of Argyll
travel as Lord and Lady Sundridge,
this being one of the Argyll minor
titles.
Before her marriage Queen Maud
of Norway occasionally called herself
by the unpretentious name OF Miss
Mills. Queen Victoria always travelled
as countess of Balmoral. though, curl
ously enough, her heavy luggage was
generally labeled THE Queen"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
RAILROADS AID STEEL TRUST
Traffic Expert Tells How Subsidiary
Concerns Help Combine,


hington.-Figures intended to
show that subsidiary railroad com
panies allied with the United
States Steel corporation earn through
high freight rates large dividends
which go to stockholders of the steel
corporation and that such railroads
give an advantage to the steel trust
over competing concerns that own
none were submitted to the Stanley
investigating committee of the house
by Guy M. Freer, a traffic expert.
The Duluth, Missabe and Northern
railroad, he showed, made a return of
more than 240 per cent. on its capital
stock in 1910. when the ore rate from
Minnesota mines to Lake Superior
was so cents a ton
Of the Pittsburgh Steamship COM
pany, another steel corporation SUBJ
sidiary which carries ore down the
lakes, he said:
The profit to the steamship COM
pany in the handling of the ore was
241a cents a ton. That profit on the
total capitalization of s20,50O 900 is
16 per cent"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-22
Prepare for 1913 Highway Work.

Madison.-The Wisconsin high
way commission is doing preliminary
work to prepare for 1913 road con-
struction throughout the state. Let
ters are being sent to town chair
men advising that twill be neces-
sary to vote tax at the town meet
ing on or before September 1, 1912,
if the towns expect to build a road
or bridge under the state law in
1913. No state aid work voted the
coming spring can be built in 1912.
If bridge in a county system must
be built this year, it is necessary to
do so under the county aid law.