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Pocahontas star herald., 1912-03-15
A CHECK BOOK

easier carry than wallet filled with currency silver gold
adds dignity to transactions and gives much satsfac
tion
Checks of value except the person whose favor
drawn
Can afford to keep money at home pocket
when you can have without check book this strong
bank?
Randolph County Bank
Pocahontas star herald., 1912-03-15
DR.. TRACY, EYE SPECIALIST

/ have visited Pocahontas several
times in the past ten years and will
be pleased to give any of my friends
a free examination for glasses to re.
heve cross eyes, weak sight and
nervous headache. A record of
your glasses will be kept by N. A.
Chllds, optician, who can have new
ones made for you in case of loss or
breakage.
Enquire of any physician here
about my responsibility. Charges
are most reasonable and advice Is
free. % If
Pocahontas star herald., 1912-03-15
Mrs. Kent Dead

Friends of Deputy Grand Master
w. M. Kent, of the Masonic Lodge
of Arkansas, will be sorry to learn
of the death Of his wife which oc.
Cured at their home at Charlotte
last week.
Pocahontas star herald., 1912-03-15
A BANK DRAFT

the safest cheapest and most convenient and business ike
method for sending money through the mails.
Safest because paid only order lost destroyed
you can easily duplicate When paid is filed away in
vault and furnishes legal receipt Of payment made.
No application to fill out red tape of any kind and no
cost The time you have money send call and try
one of bank drafts will find this helpful service at the
Pocahontas State Bank
Pocahontas star herald., 1912-03-15

The firm of Bennett & Rice is
offering some special inducements
for spring trade. Read the half
page ad in this issue.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
WRITES AS LIFE IS EBBING
Woman Suicide Tells How It Feels
When Near Death.

ST. Paul, June While dying by
her own act, Mrs. Caroline Goodspeed.
aged twenty-four, wrote a last letter to
her husband telling how it felt to be
slowly nearing death by means OF ihs
haling gas.
A letter left by Mrs. Goodspeed, at,-
dressed to her husband, told that sb3
had turned on the gas. Evidently al
the gas began to take effect Mn.
Goodspeed wrote that she felt muol
better after having Inhaled the %
sonous fumes.
Differences said to have existed b !.
tween Mrs. Goodspeed and her hu =
band, DR.. +. S. Goodspeed, dentt
OF Two Harbors MINI. are believed
to have caused Mrs. Goodspeed to en-
her life. The couple had been parte
three years, Mrs Goodspeed hayln
lived in St Paul
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
SITUATION is IMPROVING
Believed Cuban Revolt Will Soon Be
at an End

Washington, June 12.-General Ivo-
net with 700 insurrectos is said to be
cornered about twelve miles from Sag
made Tanamo, on the north coast of
Oriente. This information was re-
ceived here through the American e-
CATION at Havana 1t is believed the
negro revolution in Oriente province
will be short lived
Disturbances continue in Santa
Clara province, the consular agent at
Sagua La Grande reporting the situa-
tion serious. The regular army garri-
sons have been withdrawn from Cal
bairien and Remedies. only rural
guards remaining. Seditious bands
also are reported in this vicinity.
Alarm still prevails in Cienfuegos and
the people are continuing TO concen-
trate in the city.
The absence of any fresh outbreaks
in Havana has encouraged the state
department in the belief that the
measures already taken to show the
purpose of this government to main
tain order in Cuba have been sufficient.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
Senate Committee Favors|
Closing Canal to Them.
ONE EXCEPTION IS MADE
Railroad Owned Vessels May Use eig
Ditch If Engaged in Transoceanic
Traffic, but a Strict Ban Is Provided
" Coastwse Trade is Their Line.

Washington. June l2.-The senate
committee on interoceanic canals
favorably reported the house bill to
open, protect and operate the Pana-
ma canal and to govern the canal
zone. The bill retains the house pro-
vision eXemptng coastwise vessels
from canal tolls and embodies an
amendment strictly regulating rail-
road owned vessels.
The senate amended the house bill
to provide that no ship owned, char
tered, operated or controlled by rail-
road, or in which any railroad had
any interest whatever through any
holding company, stockholders or d.
rectors in common or otherwise,
should be permitted to enter or pass
through the Panama canal IL engaged
in the coastwise trade between the
United States ports.
Any ship Of American registry, how
ever owned or controlled, would be
permitted to operate through the canal
In transoceanic trade up to and from
Ollellal VI CuToJeau CouHtlleS anu oA
Its way might do a coastwse trade be-
tween ports Of the United States and
intermediate foreign ports.
This privilege, however, would not
be permitted to any ship owned or
controlled wholly by any railroad. un-
less it be in transoceanic trade. The
coastwise trade to be allowed such
vessels will be strictly to or from
transoceanic ports and not to ports
of Canada, Mexico. or Central and
South America.
The committee added additional re-
strtctions to protect coastwise trattic
by requiring that a rainroad owned ship
passing through the canal must have
at least so per cent of it's cargo con-
signed to transoceanic ports.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
Dean Sterling Gets
Senatorial Nomination


Pierre, June 12.-With all
the counties in except Hard
ing and Bennett on senator,
the figures are: Sterling 25, :
694, Gamble n 453, and the
votes of these counties are not
likely to cut the Sterling lead
much under 900.
Private kilograms on coun-
ties yet out give the place of
secretary of state to Hepperle
by about 700.
Byrne for governor has d
lead over Egan of close to
10, 600.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
Young Indians on Trial for
Brutal Murder of Roland Judish

confessions should not be con-
sidered against Jonah Star. the
same being held to have been
hearsay testimony, and conse-
quently inadmissible.
The state closed it's case Tues
day evening, shortly before ad-
journment of the court. The
defense Immediately made mo-
ton for a directed verdict of ac-
quittal in the case against Jonah
Star, which motion was argued
on both sides and was taken un-
der advisement by the court
until the following morning.
The murder of Roland Judish
was one of the most brutal in
the criminal annals of Roberts
county, and the perpetrators Of
the horrible crime can not escape
punishment, Much credit is due
Sheriff John Swanson, States
Attorney Batterton and his as
sistant, Thomas Mani, in getting
the strong chain of circumstan-
tial evidence which has been
forged by the state against the
defendants.
On the convening of court
Wednesday morning, Judge Nc
Nulty overruled the motion for
a directed verdict of acquittal in
the case against Jonah Star, and
the defense then opened it's case
to the jury.
In the case of defendant High
Bear. the plea of self-defense
was interposed. but an attempt
was made in the case against
Jonah Star to establish an alibi.
Two families of Indians were
produced on the stand who tes-
titled that Jonah Star was at
home during the night Of the
murder. and that he was not
absent from home at any time
during that night. The prosecu-
ton made a successful attack
upon the testimony Of witnesses
produced by the defense with
reference to the case against
Jonah Star.
The defense closed it's case
Thursday afternoon, and the
state offered brief rebuttal tes.
timony. The arguments to tie
| jury were then begun, the open.
ing argument being made by At
j torney Mani for the state.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14

Chicago. June 12.--The Taft major
ity on the national Republican COM
mittee credited the four delegates at
large from Kentucky and the six dele
gates from the First, Second and
Fourth districts to Taft In the case
Of the delegates at large there was a
bitter fight, the Roosevelt men charg-
ing that the delegates had been delib-
erately stolen from Roosevelt as the
result of a conspiracy on the part of
the Taft men. On this contest the
vote stood SO to H.
In the case of the First district con-
test the vote was unanimous for the
Taft delegates.
The case of kentucky's four con-
tested delegates at large was the first
called.
The Kentucky Roosevelt contestants
for the places of delegates at large
were only two in number although
the state is entitled to four seats at
large in the national convention. The
Taft faction had named a complete set
of delegates but the names of f. c.
O'Rear and Leslie Combs were all
that appeared on the roll as Roosevelt
contestants
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
LOOKS LIKE WILSON WON
But Clark Men in South Dakota
Won't Concede Defeat.

Pierre, S. D., June 12.-Revised fig
ures of the South Dakota primary
election, with nine counties unheard
from, indicates that Wilson delegates
won in the Democratic contest Clark
managers, however, do not concede
the state, declaring that the missing
territory will change the apparent re-
suit. Latest figures give Wilson dele
gates 4,o5S; Clark delegates, headed
by Lee, 3,949. Actual results are not
expected to be known until the Off
cia count after the state officers have
returned from the Chicago convention.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14

for the conference when Roosevelt
reached the Outlook Office from Oys-
ter Bay.
Before talking with Roosevelt Gov
ernor Stubbs gave no intimation of his
mission, nor did the colonel tell what
he expected to hear from his lieuten-
ant. But that it was an important
matter that brought Governor Stubbs
post haste to New York was apparent
from the fact that his coming was un.
heralded from Chicago. He came on
the heels Of George w. Perkins and
other Roosevelt workers. who took to
Sycamore Hill all the most startling
intelligence from the seat Of war.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
100000 MEN WILL STRIKE
Order Sent Out Which May Tie Up
All Great Britain Shipping.

London, June I2,-Three hundred
thousand transport workers in this
island will give mp their Jobs and all
foreign and coastwise shipping will be
tied up indefinitely if the union men
obey the orders of the general coun-
Gil Of the Transport Workers fedora,
ton which sent kilograms to every
port in england, Scotland and Wales
calling for national strike
The ship owners decided to reject
q compromise which the government
has been attempting to arrange.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
AN ATRo(|oUS CRIME

The news of an unspeak-
ably cruel and atrocious crime
committed on the person of a
farm hand near Odessa, Mimi,
was brought to this city Sun
day evening. It seems that
the farm hand in question was
on his way to the creek to
spear some fish when he met
up. with three hoE'oeS, who in
vited him to take Il drink with
them. He did so: in fact,
he took two drinks, shortly
after which he lost conscious
ness, as the booze was doped.
When the farm hand went to
sleep. the h o b o es went
through him, securing a gold
watch and about $2O in cash.
After robbing the man. the
hoboes proceeded to mutilate
his person with the spear in
d horrible manner, and left
him lying on the prairie,
where he remained for seven
hours before he was discov-
cred. The injured man was
taken to the hospital at Or
tonvi!le, where he is lying in
a precarious condition. The
perpetrators of the fiendish
crime We're apprehended at
Montevideo, and the officers
had difficulty in frustrating q
lynching bee.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
South Dakota Siftings
A Women's Relief Corps has
been organized at Madison.

A Women's Relief Corps has
been organized at Madison.
-SDS-
Veblen will hold an Old Set
tiers reunion and picnic on June
%.
-SDS+
Rapid City's new waterworks
system will be completed on
July Is.
The first Indian Y. M. C.. A.
convention ever held in the state
took place at Flandreau last
-SDS-
Neal Dennis, an old-timer in
the Black Hills country, was
found dead on the road from
Keystone to Hermosa, the victim
OF runaway accident.
Alma Ommen, the l6-year-old
daughter of a farmer living north
of Chamberlain, committed sui
eide by taking quantity of
Paris green. Dependency over
a love affair was the cause of
the rash act.
-SDS-
1t is now authoritatively stated
that Gov. Vessey will leave South
Dakota at the close Of his term
as chief executive of the state.
He will go to Philadelphia,
where he has purchased an in
tefest in a business enterprise.
-SDS-
At a meeting held at Sioux
Falls, June 8, Of representative
men and boosters from Mime
haha. Moody, Lake, Miner, Han
son and McCook counties, a dist
rict development league was or
ganized and will be auxiliary to
the state DEVELOPMENT league.
Similar district leagues have
been organized in other parts of
the state and the work will be
pushed until all parts of South
Dakota will have been covered.
-SDS-
The Grand Army and Women's
Relief Corps of South Dakota
. held their annual encampment
at Mitchell last week. Over 200
old soldiers marched in a parade
covering the business districts.
Aberdeen was selected as the
i place for the next encampment.
A resolution was adopted to
petition the state legislature for
the appropriation of sufficient
money for the employment of a
professional nurse to be install.
ed at the Soldiers Home at Hot
Springs.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
INJURIES PROVED FATAL

While Robert Mulloch, a
young man employed on the
Woodland farm, seven miles
north of Browns Valley, was
riding a motorcycle, Tuesday
afternoon, he was thrown
violently from the machine,
sustaining internal injuries
from which he died the fol
lowing afternoon, in the hos
pital at Browns Valley.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
Ashes Fall at Dawson.

Seattle, June 2.-Dlspatches from
Dawson, Yukon Territory, 600 miles
northeast of the volcanoes, said vol
canic ash fell there. The people Of
Dawson had not heard of the Katmai
eruption. Other points in the Yukon
valley reported light fall of ashes
and Eagle, Alaska, near the interna-
tional boundary, reported hearing dis
tant explosions.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
Wife Dead; Husband Held.

Sturgis. S. D.. June l2.-Mrs. Ed
ward Southmaid. who resided on
ranch in Big Bottom. twenty miles
north Of Sturgis, is dead from gun
shot wound which, according to cor
oner's jury, was not self-inflicted. Ed
ward Southmaid. her husband, asserts
she shot herself. SouthmaN was TAX.
en- into custody,
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
STUBS MAKES HURRY TRIP
Governor Quits Chicago for Conference
With Roosevelt

New York, June Ex-Governor
Stubbs Of Kansas, who has been on
the firing line in Chicago for Roose
welt since the national committee be-
gan to hear the contests, hurried into
New York to tell the candidate the
latest details and the stage was set
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
YOUTH GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE
Attempted to Hold Up Auto Party Ia
Real Western Stvlo.

Grand Rapids, Mich, June 12.-Lito
imprisonment at Jackson was the sen,
tence passed upon twenty-year-old
Millard Johnson in the circuit court
for attempting to hold up an automo-
bile party just outside the city Satur-
day night. Johnson and a companion,
armed with pistols. attempted the rob
berry in real Western fashion. but ono
OF the members of the automobile
party knocked Johnson down. The
latter's companion fed and still 10 at
large.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
Five Hundred Volcanic Ref
ugees Crowded on Board.
VILLAGES UNDER ASHES
Kodiak and Woody, Alaska, Covered
With Lava to Depth Of Foot as
Result of the Eruption Of katmai
Volcano.

Kodiak, Alaska, June 9, via Tug to
Seaward, June 12.-Kodiak and
Woody island villages are buried UNI
der foot Of ashes as a result of the
eruption of Katmai volcano beginning
Thursday afternoon and lasting forty
eight hours. No lives have been lost
here, but many other settlements near
the volcano must have suffered In
describably.
The revenue cutter Manning was in
port here when the eruption began
and furnished refuge for all the in
habitants of the town, 500 men, wom
en- and children, doubtless saving
many lives. The Manning is now
serving distilled water and govern
ment rations to the destitute people,
the water supply having been pol
luted and springs filled with ashes.
Wireless Station Destroyed.
The naval wireless station was de-
stroyed by fire and the Manning's
work with Cordova. Dispatches are be-
ing sent by tug to Seward with an ap-
peal for all available craft to come to
the assistance of the people in the vi
cinity. The property loss will be enor-
nous.
AS soon as the hail of ashes, sand
and hot pumice stone began the Of
ficers of the Manning ordered every
one in Kodiak and nearby villages to
board the ship.
For more than forty hours the peo-
pie We're huddled together in the dark
ness of midnight. Saturday morning
it grew lighter, the Manning worked
out of the narrow channel and headed
for the open sea. She had not pro
ceeded far when the pail lifted and
she returned to Kodiak.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14
Satisfied.

Satisfied.
Ambitious Author = Hurray! Five
dollars for my latest story, 'Sfhe Call
Of the Lure!"
Fast Friend-Who from2
Ambitious Author-The express con-
pany. They lost it.-WomGn's Homo
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14

+ Instructed for Taft (uncon- :
+ tested, POI.
!. Added by national commit .
!. tee: Alabama, 16; Arkansas,
!. 16; Florida, 10; Indiana, 10;
/. Kentucky. 10.
!. Total for Taft to date, 295.
!. Instructed for Roosevelt Gun
!. contested), All.
!. Instructed for La Toilette,
!. (uncontested), SO.
!. Instructed for Cummins Gun
i contested), 10.
!. Uninstructed and uncontest-
I. ed 166.
!. Total number of delegates,
+ 1,O7S.
!. Necessary for nomination,
!. $40.
!,
:. >. y. =. =. y. y. =. y. y. >. >. =. =. ).
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-06-14

and Attorney John l. Davis, of
Benson, Mimi, appeared for the
state, while Attorneys Howard
Babcock, j. w. Darlington and
J. O. Andrews appeared for the
defendants.
All day Friday was consumed
in securing a jury. The next
morning, soon after the opening
of the court, the last juror was
sworn in and the state opened
it's case. The jury is made up
as follows:
M. C. Knudson
Thomas Osman
Henry Otto
Ben Eek
Carston Eggen
Martin Olson
John L. Sutton
A. L. Hillestad
Berndt Bendickson
Andrew j. Olson
E. P. Erickson
Carl Ecklund
Attorney Thoms Mani made
the opening statement to the
jury in very able manner, tell
nag them what the state expect
edrto prove in connecting the
two defendants with the COM
mission Of the crime charged.
AS soon as the opening state
ment was made, the state began
introducing its evidence. The
Judish family testified as to the
Sunday when Roland Judish was
last seen alive; how he spent
that Sunday at home with his
father, mother and brothers in
Browns Valley, and how he left
there in the evening for the
Judish farm in Roberts county.
Guy Brown and wife and Ben
VanVoris and wife testified to
having met Roland Judish be-
tween Browns Valley and the
Judish farm on that fateful SUM-
day evening. Then DR.. Sverre
was put on the stand and testi-
fed to the condition of the body,
and to the nature of the wounds
which produced the death of
Roland Judish. DR.. Taplin fol-
lowed him and testified to the
same facts, he and DR.. Sverre
having performed the autopsy
wand held The post mortem ex-
animation.
The most important witness
for the state was Sheriff John
Swanson, who went to the scene
of the murder as soon as he was
notified of the crime. and worked
incessantly until he unprecedented
the two defendants.
All the personal effects Of the
dead boy, consisting of a suit of
clothes, a pair Of shoes, q shot
gun and revolver. which were
found to have been in the pos
session of Joe High Bear. one Of
the defendants, were fully ider-
titled by the Jud:sh family and
by Otto Johnson.
The first real clash between
the attorneys occurred when the
state attempted to introduce the
alleged confessions of High Bear,
made to States Attorney Batter
ton. his assistant, Thomas Mani,
and Sheriff Swanson. After
much argument and innumerable
objections by the defense, the
court finally permitted the state
to introduce all of such confes-
sions and statements made by
High Bear, but instructed the
iuru that such statements and
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-06
EDUCATION NOTES..

Two-thirdrs of the high schools
In the United States now have COM
plte four year courses.
A compulsory school attendance
law for Alaska is urged by DR.. P.
P. Claxton, United States Commits
sioner of Education, who has charge
of the schools for natives in the Ter
ritory.
or 82,224 school children recently
examined by medical inspectors in a
large city school system only 1921
we're free from physical defect; the
remaining 53,503 wefe found physi-
cally defective in one or more partic-
ulars.
Instruction in elementary mining
Is recommended by the British Board
of Education for schools in mining
districts. 1t is suggested that such
instruction can be most effectively
given, not In separate and detached
lessons, but In connection with the
regular school subjects.
oCpdllG oCLOOlS dT6 necessary lot
the proper solution of the vocational
school problem in the United States,
according to Edwin G. Cooley, of Chi
cago, special investigator of voca-
tional education. These schools, says
Mr.. Cooley, must not be regarded as
substitutes for thep reent schools,
which are doing satisfactorily a nee
essary work, but as supplementary to
them.
There is a high school over a store
at Norris, Missouri. Four families
who wanted their children to have a
high school education without going
to town for it, established such a
school over the village store. Nine
teen pupils, s girls and IA boys, at
tended this school last year. The
course OF study is that of standard
high schools, and the work
Is fully approved by the State author
tiles. Other country high schools Of
the same kind are planned.