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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
For Good Roads

The South Dakota meridian road
convention held at Madison Friiay was
an enthusiastic meeting. Delegates
were present from Yankton, McCook,
Lake, K%ingsbury, Codington, Grant
and Roberts counties.
The state commission was elected as
follows: j. w. Hanson. of Yankton;
c. w. Johnson, of Salem; j. S. Kee
gan, of Madison; James Holsom, of
Arlington; f. l.. Lampy, of Water
town, Phil Saunders, Milbank; Howard
Babcock, Sisseton.
The commission organized by the
election of Howard Babcock, presi-
dent, C. W.. Johnson, vice president,
j. M. Hanson, secretary, and j. S.
Keegan, treasurer. State Engineer
Lea was unanimously elected a delegate
to the interstate emridian road meet
ing at Emporia, Kansas. Jan. I6. The
delegates present reported great inter-
est and enthusiasm over the meridian
highway from the counties all along
the South Dakota line from Yankton
via. Madison, Salem, WATERFOWL and
White Rock. Good road construction
was discussed at length and ways and
means considered.
The Madison meridian road boosters
club gave a banquet at the Lake Park
that evening in which one hundred del
egates participated.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
Ended His Suffering

Orson S. Craig, of Watertown, son
Byron S. Craig, captain of the night
police force, committed suicide last
week in bed at his home by shooting
himself in the head with a 45-calibre
revolver, dying instantly. He was q
years of age and had been sick with
tuberculosis for the past five years,
and for the past three months confined
continuously to his bed. Realizing that
he had but a few more months to live
and was a burden to his parents he
became discouraged and decided to end
his suffering. Before his illness he was
considered one of the promising young
men of that city, having been born and
reared there.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
You Can Take Your Choice

With the holding of the La Toilette
confab at Sioux Falls last week anc
the selection by the La Toilette cam
paign committee of candidates for
delegates to the republican national
convention, the line between the sup
porters of President Taft and the sup
porters Of Senator La Toilette in South
Dakota is clearly drawn.
The two tickets which will be in the
field and upon which the voters of
South Dakota will pass judgment at
the primaries to be held June a. are as
follows:
Taft ticket:
Delegates at Large-C. M. Day,
Minnehaha county: ]. E. McDougal,
Marshall county; d. A. Mcpherson,
Lawrence county; E. d. Brockman,
Clay county.
First District-John E. Sinclair,
Union county; Harry Chamberlain,
Brule county.
Second District--A. j. Lockhart,
Deuel. county; H. c. Behrens, Brown
county.
Third District Geo. A.. LETTERS
Gregory county; Alvin Waggoner,
Stanley county.
La Toilette ticket:
Delegates at Larger. S. vessey, of
Hughes; S. x. Way, of Codington;
DIR. Redfeld, Pennington: C. L. Dot
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
RUSSIAN STEAMER
GOES TO BOTTOM
Hundred and SeVenty-tWO Per-
sons Lose Their Lives.

Bucharest, Rumania, Jan. 12.-The
Russian steamer Russ has ~foundered
during a gale in the Black sea with
the whole of her passengers and crew,
totaling TIP persons.
The Russ. which was under the com
mand of Captain Pahomoff and be-
longs to the Russian Steam Naviga-
ton company of the Black sea and the
Danube, was steaming from Galatz to
Odessa. Among her passengers were
Carl Anuseff, who recently was APP
pointed Russian consul general at
Galatz, and his family.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
Starts School in Idaho

w. S. Thornber, formerly instructor
in horticulture in the South Dakota
state college and later professor and
of the department of horticulture in
the Washing State Agricultural college
will formally open in Lewiston, Idaho,
The lewiston Charleston school of
horticulture, a pioneer institution of its
kind organized and maintained by the
business interests of the cities of
Lewiston, in Idaho; and Charleston in
Washington, across the river and by
the orchardists who have property in
the valley, in either state.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
Gull WouId Omit

Judge LOOMS Gull, of Rapid City,
register of the land offics there and
stalwart representative candidate for
governor, last week made public the
contents of a letter to Lieutenant Gov
ernor Frank M. Byrne. of Faulkton,
the progressive candidate, in which
Gull agrees to withdraw from the race
if Byrne will do likewise. The annonce-
ment was something of a political
bombshell, but it is not thuoght that
Byrne will accent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
REV.. RICHESON TO
Be ~ELECTROCUTED
Pastor Murderer Is Given Sen
tenCe Of Death.

Boston, Jan. 10.-A plea OF guilty OF
murder in the first degree was made
by Rev. Clarence v. t. Richeson in
the superior court and he was SEN
fenced by Judge Sanderson to death
by electrocution some time during the
week of May 10, 1912.
Richeson had pleaded not guilty
when arraigned after his indictment
on the charge of poisoning Avis Lin
nell Of Hyannis. Mass. his fiancee, but
following a written confession made
public Saturday he retracted that plea
and made q formal plea OF guilty.
Richeson made eno statement. He
was In court only about six minutes.
"Of course we shall petition Gov
ernor Foss for Communication OF the
sentence said John l.. Lee OF Lynch.
burg, Va, when questioned a. to the
future plans of counsel for Richeson.
following the minister's plea and sen.
tence.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18

Lieat. Gov. Frank M. Byrne viii not
NEE LOOMS S. Gull half way in Mr..
Cults proposal that both of them with
draw as candidates for the republican
nomination for governor and leave to a
committee of twenty Of the leoding
republicans Of the state the selection
Of a new candidate to make the pri-
mary contest alone against George w.
Egan, Of Sioux Falls.
Mr.. Byrne refuses to accept Mr..
Cults proposal and declares he will
stick in the race to the finish.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18

An ancient oriental cure for cancer
was to apply a live toad to the affected
part. A well authenticated case Of this
form OF treatment was that Of the wife
Of a merchant Of Smyrna. A live toad
was strapped tightly over the diseased
part. and. 1t was said, the woman was
completely cured within a short time.
1t was a sacrifice upon the part of the
toad. however, as 1t died after II had
,een on duty twenty-four hours.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
Drew Three Years

Lofts Carter, who recently was cap
tured at Buffalo, N. Y, after being a
fugitive for several months, appeared
before Judge Jones, of the state cir
cult court in Sioux Falls, and entered a
plea of guilty to the charge of grand
larceny. He was sentenced to a term
of three years in the ~penitentiary.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
Ancient Proofreadina.

The editions of books printed 200 or
300 years ago are almost entirely free
from typographical errors, which may
be attributed TO the fact that early
publishers were generally eminent
scholars and themselves gave much
attention to the revision Of their proofs.
After reading the proofs they frequent
~ turned them over to other scholars
with the request to revise and correct.
and as the printers time was then
deemed a matter of small consequence
q perfection was attained which Is
seldom equaled by modern printers
Exchange.
The man who does you a wrong has
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
Too Suquestive.

1.-THE health officer advised me to ask
every man with whom we had domes-
tic dealings If he was careful to boil
the water he used In his business"
Yes"
well, | asked the milkman first.
And what do you think? He got mad
and wanted to lick me."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
RANCRER KILLS HIS FAMILY
He Yields AK on Wife and Daughter,
Then Commits Suicide.

Milligan, Neb, Jan. 11.-Word has
reached here that Peter Brothers, a
wealthy rancher living near here,
murdered his wife and four-year-old
stepdaughter with an AK and then
committed suicide by slashing his
throat with a razor.
Jealousy caused the wholesale kill
ing.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
No Previous EmpIoxmsn..

You say. Rastus. that you want
work for your wife," said Gunbusta,
cycling the husky darby before him
from head to foot. WAS she ever en-
ployed beforey"
mo. SIR" replied the negro noncha'
lantly; dis am her first marriage
New York Times
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18

Hon. Richard Olsen Richards. at q
public meeting held at Centerville
announced himself . progressive cam
didate for United States senator in
the republican primaries to be held
next June.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18

Maud-Miss Oldun thinks that hotel
clerk Just lovely. Ethsl-why 80?
Maud-He wrote opposite her nam
on the hotel register. "Suite 18."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
The sleep Of Life.

We talk about the sleep Of death.
How much deeper. how much sadder,
is the sleep of nfe-the un%responsive
heart. the n wakened mind, the hand
palsied by lack OF will to do!
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18
She viii Chance Then.

Mrs. era wford-Although my daugh-
ter is such a big girl. she's still afraid
Of the dark. Mrs. Crabshaw-Don't
worry about that. my dear. She'll soon
be In lOve.-Judge.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18

Tho Wifc-Big checks for dresses
win not be In demand this season.
The Husband-Thank heavenl-Balti-
more American.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-18

The man who does you a wrong has
need of pity.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-26
DEAD CATTLE IN RANGES

A Dcnyer, Colorado. dispatch
says: Secretary F.. K. Whitehead
of the bureau Of animal and child
protection estimates the loss of
cattle in Eastern Colorado at not
less than $4,000 head. and believes
that a careful survey may run
the total as high as 100 900 head.
Hundreds are still dying on the
ranges and the SHINING Of fallen
carcassos has become a regular
business he says. The stock finds
no nutriment in last years grass
which has been blcachod out by
the months of snow and rain. The
new grass when IT comes will kill
rather than save the cattle which
arc too weak to stand fresh feed.
From the little town Of Fowler
alone 2,CO0 hides have been shin.
ped, which gives an idea Of the
extent Of the industry.
William Lang Of Cheyenne.
recently acquitted of a charge Of
allowing cattle TO starvc, will lose
th~ree.fourths of his herd Of 1000.
The aggregate loss throughput the
eastern counties will be in excess
of 30 per cent. according to re-.
ports which have reached this
office.
Secretary Whitehead has nearly
a hundred now applicants for seed.
or money with which to buy seed.
for destitute dry farmers.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-26
DATA ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES

The Philippine government has
done a wise thing in sending a
commissioner, who might properly
he called a bureau Of information,
to the United States.
According to Mr.. Nj. l.. Stewart,
the commissioner who has Just ar
rived in New York from Manila
the American people are woefully
ignorant Of their island posses.
sions. and he begins at once the
work Of enlightenment. One Of
the most interesting items of
Information he gives is that
promising experiments in rubber
culture have been made in the
island Of Mindsnao. The demand
for India rubber for tires and for
other purposes is 80 constantly
increasing that If the Philippines can
in the near future produce a
good supply the value II the
islands will be established
Mr.. Stewart thinks their value
il, already established. He says
the island government Is self
sustaining and the people have
practically self.government; that
the number Of the natives who
speak English now is greater than
the number who spoke Spanish
when the Americans went in. after
300 years Of Spanish occupation.
There are 5000 public schools and
$40 900 pupils. The university of
the Philippines in Manila, has 1,4O0
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-26

students. In the islands there are
IL. 100. 900 acres of virgin hard
wood forests and 1000. 900 acres Of
the best sugar land, capable of
producing enough to supply the
United States with sugar. The
climate is extolled as being COM
Portable and healthful-the death
rate among the white population
being smaller than in New York.
Before 1898 smallpox was the
scourge of the native population.
carrying off about 40. 900 a year.
Vaccination was introduced and
the disease has disappeared.
Mr.. Stewart estimates that one
half the population of the world
resides within 1900 miles of
Manila, and he declares that the
American manufacturer is neg
Letting his opportunity. He thinks
that Manila should be the distri
buting warehouse for American
products. HE points to the not
very -creditablc fact that while
China last year spent $500, 600. 900
for manufactured goods. only ten
per cent came from the United
States. The truth is that the
American manufacturer is so busy
"hoing" the home market and
looking after tariff laws that he
has little time to look after the
markets of the world.-E1cha nge.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-26
THE LIVING WAGE

A few years ago. says the
Topeka Ca railway presi-
dent found that, to continue in
operation. his railway company
would have to retrench on all sides
until the hard times should have
passed. Because he was fair
he intended to make his change
affect all alike. He began by SUBJ
stracting a certain percentage
from his W salary then, he took
the same percentage from the
salaries of his assistants. and so OF.
down to the most unimportaut
brakeman"
So far the president had preceded
when he called on one of the high
paid workmen, laid the plan before
him, and asked il it was fair.
The man replied that, although it
was fair enough, it would not work.
Il earn enough ne said, so that
if such a percentage, or even a
larger one, is taken off my pay.
can stand it. My family will have
to live more economically, but
they will not starve. Your family
may suffer a larger cut of income
Il ali the family of any other indi-
vidual. but it will merely mean less
hooks and pictures and less to
give away. AS between your
family and my family the cut will
work. But there is a man on my
train who is getting just enough
to pay rent and keep the grocer
satisfied. He may he worth no
more than he is getting, but it is
not worth while for him to work
for less. Il you cut his wages he
will 20 under. and there is no in.
centive 10 work unless by so doing
a man can keep himself and his
family from starving.
Thus. as the ,"Capital" adds, the
living wage stands for a really
deep economic truth, and illustrates
as well as anything can the
difference between human labor
and a mere commodity.
In general outline the demand
for a minimum wage is identical
with the demand for living wage
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-26
A FOOLISH MAIDEN

This is a tale Of love. A woman
with a heart Overlooking with the
milk Of human kindnes. and feeling
lonely in her solitary life, placed
an ad in a matrimonial paper
Advertising always pays and
although her home was in Wash
ingtUn. the land where senators
crate and c~ongressmcn SEMI out
seed and rose bushes, still the ad
carried across tie continent to the
Nevada state prison, and there IT
fell beneath the eye Of Matrimonial
Mac" Mccarthy. and ne sent a
letter whirling away over TIE land
and sea TO the pining maid in
Washington. Perhaps Matrimonial
Mac" was pining behind the stone
walls of the prison and this pining
made a link between the two i'm
prisoned hearts and a chord Of
sympathy was struck whose
magnetic waves healed the sorrows
and made them ne.
How many letters passed be-
tween the two, what was said in
the burning words of love: What
promises were made and explaua-
tions given. is not for us to know
but ii few short days ago the lady
arrived from Washington to be at
the side of the mar she had learned
to love.
Upon arriving in this city she
chartered an automobile and with
the lady who had Travelled across
the continent as hor ]chapcronc.
she went to the prison and there
she met the man VINO had won her
love on the advertising plan.
They are not strolling along the
verdant paths of love nor are they
sitting beside the CRATE at even
tide, telling soft tales, tales that
lovers mouth. Even the lax laws
( 0 Nevada's p~enitantiary prohibit
some things and this is one Of them.
There will be no wedding bells
until the doors have been opcrpd
and the gay l,thario has been told
to go and sin no more. - Carson
News.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-26
WESTERN PACIFIC
ENGINE EXPLODES

Monday as we were about clos.
ing the forms we learned Of a ter
rible accident on the Western
Pacific and made brief mention Of
it. Today we learned the follow
ing particulars:
Engine No. 40, an oil burner,
drawing eastbound freight train
No. So, exploded at Antelope at
2:5S o'clock Monday afternoon.
The boiler was thrown across the
track and five freight cars were
derailed.
Engineer Casey. Fireman Reader
and Brakeman Crosby we're Instantly
killed. Their bodies were terribly
mutlated and pieces of flesh were
found 1000 feet from the track.
The telegraph wires were blown
down cutting off communication
with the crippled train. AS soon
as S .perintendent Oglivie lea rned
of the accident the wrecking train
was ordered out and by $50 it was
on its way to clear the track.
This was accomplished by 5 o'clock
this morning and trains are run
ming as usual. The cause Of the
accident is not known, but it
probably resulted from a lack Of
water in the boiler. The engine
only recently left the railroad
shops.
The dead trainmen all lived in
Winnemuc'a. The body of
Engineer Casey will be taken to
st Paul, Minnesota. for burial. He
and Fireman Reader yer not
married.
Brakeman Crosby leaves a wife
and n child at Winnemucca
Mrs. Crosby is a cousin of Mrs. J.
A. Mcbride of Elko.
The men were all trusted en-
plOyes Of the Western Pacific and
the sudden snuffing out of their
lives has cast a gloon over tneir
associates,
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-26
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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-26
THE TRUST SUPPORT OF TEDDY

The most threatening develop.
ment in the Roosevelt third-term
campaign is now disclosed when a
dispatch appears to the effect that
Attorney General W~ickersham was
in conference with the steel trust,
the harvester trust and others of
like ilk in regard to their discolu-
tion under the provisions of the
Sherman act.
Congressman Lobeck of Nebras.
ka, has been decidedly active of
late in punching up the harvester
trust by frequent resolutions pre-.
sented demanding that the at.
torney general enforce against this
trust the provisions of the Sher.
man act.
From time to time the attorney
general has been responding to
these resolutions with the promise
that within q specified time he
would launch the prosecution When
the time expired without action on
the part of the attorney general.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-26
ANDERSON

An interesting and pretty
wedding took place last night at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Harris.
MIR. Fred l.. Anderson and Miss
Hermine Westerbeek were the bride
and groom and DR.. c. X. Nugent
said the words that made the
twain one.
The groom has long been a resi-
dent of Elho County being a
member of the cattle firm OF
Eastman and Anderson of Row.
lands. He is energetic, scIf-rellant
and successful.
The bride who came from Twin
Falls, Idaho, is a native of Holland
and received the education Of a
trained nurse.
The wedding is the outcome of a
pretty little romance. An acct
dent had occurred near ROwlands,
and a wuman on the ranch had
been injured. Miss Westcrhsek
came over from Twin Falls TO
Nurse the patient. and Cupid, who
cares little for medical matters,
-
and still less for geographical dis.
tances, brought about the
acquaintance of the two young
people, which later was followed
by an engagement and marriage.
A pretty feature of the ceremony
was that little Miss Mary Harris
held the ring upon a dainty tray
until it was needed for the brides
fingers. The bride was simply
and t~atsteiulIy dressed in white
serge. Besides Mr.. and Mrs.
Harris there were present Mrs.
James Merritt. once an EIkoite,
hut nov Of St. Paul, Minnesota,
and MIR. II. l.. Ncman, the popular
clerk Of W. T. Smith and Co.
A number OF friends came ir
later and supper was served.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-26
BIRTHDAY KISS FOR BABY
BEFORE MOTHER DIES

After kissing her two-year-old
baby girl, the anniversary Of
whose birth it was, at the home of
her neighhor. Mrs. G. w. Martin.
Mrs. Maud Ward. wife of Albert
Ward returned to her home at
Third and Crystal streets about
9:45, Saturday NOR, ing and ended
her life by swallowing a small
quantity Of cyanide of potassium.
there.V succeeding in her third
attempt at self destruction since
he fret Of this month. The I'm.
fortunate woman obtained the
chemical from Mrs. Martin under
preteXt that he wished To poison
a cat. Mrs. Ward was born near
Carson City and was about 30
years old. She was married
about six years ago in Oakland.
California. In addition to her
husband and baby. she is survived
by her father. in San Francisco,
and a brother. Frank Bruettc. lives
in Tonopah. She was a school
teacher before her MARRIAGE.
Goldfcld Tribune.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-26
Heller IS SENTENCED TO
SERVE Fifteen YEARS

Harry Heller, convicted of
murder in the second degree, was
on Wednesday sentenced to fifteen
years in the state p%entientiary by
Judge Coleman of the district
court.
Motion for n new trial vas
argued before Judge Coleman last
Friday afternoon and was taken
under a%dvisement by the court until
Wednesday of this week. On that
day, the court announced that the
motion was denied and after re-
viewing the evidence in the case,
pronounced sentence on the prison.
er at the bar.
The crime for which Heller was
sentenced was the beating of Jen-
ME Fitzgerald. Il woman of the
redlight district last December.
The woman died in the hospital
from the effects of the beating sc
hours later and Heher was placed
under arrest and charged with the
murder.
The convicted man was aiken to
the penitentIary at Carson on
Thursday morning by Undersheritf
Jackson.-Ely Record.