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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
SHERMAN IS BURIED
REMAINS OF LATE vIcE-PREsi.
DENT ARE INFERRED IN FAM
llY MAUsOLEUM At UTICA.
TAFT AND SENATE PRESENT
All O%stentatlon 10 Avoided In Con-
nection With Rites Over Statesman
President Issues Proclamation
and Asks Country to Honor Dead.

Utica, N. Y, Nov. 2.-The remains
OF James S.. Sherman, late vice presi
dent of the United States, who died
on Wednesday night, were buried In
Forest Hill cemetery in the family
mausoleum recently erected.
The most unostentatious funeral
services compatible with Mr.. Sher-
mans high position were held over
the body Saturday.
President Taft and the entire son.
ate were present as well as many
other prominent men of the country
There was a private service held in
the morning in the Sherman home
on Genesee street for the Immediate
members of the deceased's family, and
at two o'clock Saturday afternoon
public services were held in the First
Presbyterian church OF Utica. They
were conducted jointly by Doctor
Holden, pastor OF the Reformed Dutch
church of Washington, of which Mr.
Sherman was treasurer, and DR.. M
w. Stryker, president Of Hamilton
college, Of which he was an alumnus
The body lay In state at Oneida coun,
'ty courthouse from 3 o'clock Friday
afternoon until 9 o'clock at night
The pallbearers were intimate friends
of Mr.. S~hermap's, friends whom the
vice-president selected before his
death. Messages Of coincidence have
been received from all parts of the
world.
Washington, Nov. 2.-All official
Washington and the thousands OF
friends OF the late Vice-President
Sherman mourned his death Thursday
at the capital city Of the nation.
where he was so we'll and affection
,ately known.
The president issued a proclamation
taking official notice of the death OF
Mr.. Sherman and giving instructions
to the navy, army and American diplo-
matte corps to pay honor to the mem
DRY OF the dead vice-president.
BY the instructions Of the procla-
nation, the American flag was dis.
played all around the world at half
mast during the funeral ceremonies
and until sunset OF the day of the
o~bsequies.
At every naval station, on board
every battleship and on all ships a
salute of nineteen guns vas fired, be-
ginning at the hour fixed for the fu-
neral service. For thirty days officers
OF the military establishments will
wear mourning badges on sword and
uniform.
Senator Bacon, president protein,
OF the senate. announced the death of
Mr.. Sherman to all senator's, and the
sergeant-at-arms of the senate sent
them a copy Of the proclamation Of
the president. The house was rep
resented by q committee. The sena-
tors and representatives met in New
York and by arrangements made there
by the sergeant-at-arms OF the senate,
the statesmen were taken to Utica by
special train.
"A great many Of the judges OF this
district attended the funeral. All the
courts, from the United States Su-
preme court down. adjourned out Of
respect to the event Of the vice-presi-
dents death.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
SPOUSE IS ACCUSED
MRS. CONWAY coNFEssEs HUs.
BAND KILLED SOPHIA SINGER
IN CHICAGO.
SAYS ROBBERY WAS MOTIVE
Asserts Crippled Acrobat Hit Woman
With "BiIly"-says She Pleaded
for Girls Life-Grows Hysterical
and Faints.

Chicago, Nov. Tin a confession
here Friday, Mrs. Beatrice Ryall Con-
way accused her husband, Charles D.
Conway, with the murder of Sophia G.
Singer, Baltimore heiress. The con
tioning by the police. and after
Charles r. Warthen, who was t. have
married Miss Singer, confronted the
woman and shouted accusations at
her.
He did It," she said. Conway did
It, l was opposed to violence. l
didn't want her hurt. But he didn't
heed my words. He went ahead. He
struck her. l said he ought not to do
1t. 1t wasn't necessary to go SO far.
He struck her again. didn't know
she was dead" Then the woman
paused. She looked around her for a
second.
Il didn't know she was dead. /
didn't want her hurt" che repeated.
Again she paused. Conway was my
husband she began again. II had to
stick with him. We Ned. I had to
stick with him. We didn't know she
was dead until we saw the papers aft
erwards."
The woman paused again. She had
gone deadly white. She endeavored
to say something more. but instead
slipped from her chair and fell to the
floor unconscious. Later, after she
wal revived. she wrote her confession
In. full.
At the time Mrs. Conway consented
to tell Of the murder her husband was
In . cell In the station. He had not
been questioned since arriving ut the
station and was kept In ignorance of
his wife's reported accusation against
him. :
At one point in tho examination
Mrs. Conway. otherwise known -
Beatrice Ryall. was confronted by VIII
liam r. Warthen. the dead woman's
nance.
Mrs. Conway dramatically accused
Warthen Of numbering Miss Singer
and Warthen was - emphatic In his
accusation Of the woman and her hus-
band.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
Home Life Of the Birds.

Unlike most birds, the grebes do not
brood their eggs continually. 1t is only
at night and on cloudy days hat you
will find them at home. AS soon as
the III has risen and warmed the
chilly morning air the old bird leaves
her nest, and, collecting decaying veg
citation from the shore or bottom of
the lake, she covers the eggs with a
thick layer and leaves the sweltering
mass of streaming muck to hatch them
while she spends the day in idleness
or play.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
4 FUEL SHORTAGE
COAL FAMINE MENACE OVER
COUNTRY Is GROWING
MORE SERIOUS.
0 N ROE COMMISSION ACT
Drastic Recommendations for Relief
o. Freight Car Shortage Sent to
Railways and Shippers in Middle
West and North.

washington, d. C.-Shortage of
freight cars, the menac OF a coal
famine, and industrial paralysis in
some parts of the country has become
80 serious that the interstate com
merce. commission has proposed to
shippers and railroads drastic recon-
mendations for it's relief, with a thin
" yelled intimation that should they
fail to remedy this situation the COM
mission itself would find a way to do
70.
1.-THE condition is acute" declared
Commissioner Frank X. Lane, who for
several weeks has been conducting an
inquiry. Great institutions Of the
country-the University Of Michigan
1t Ann Arbor, for instance-are prac-
tically without fuel and cannot get 1t
because there are no cars for its trans
pcrtation. II an immediate remedy is
d found people in parts Of this
country will be freezing to death be-
cause Or their inability to get coal"
The car shortage is said to have
been found to be due in part to delay
In unloading cars, the slow movement
OF freight cars and failure OF rail-
roads to return cars to the lines own
ing them. In the latter case 1t is said
railroads hold cars. paying q nominal
charge for their use. This the COM
inis6ion denounces as nothing less
than theft.' The investigation Of
slow movement Of freights developed
that q freight car averaged about
twenty miles q day, and that while
one was moving thirteen were stand
ing still.
The commission makes several sug-
gestiOns for the Improvement of the
freight q movement, as follows:
THAT = higher per diem rate shall
be made to apply for the use Of cars
- between the carriers.
s'That an inspection service be at
III instituted, which shall report to
the commiA4ion violations OF the rules
existing whidh are intended to insure
the return ofAequipment to the home
line.
THAT operating officials be instruct
"a 70 make fuller use OF locomotives
Iand cars ~ increasing the speed OF
freight trains. m average movement
" less than tw1ntysnve miles per car
par day IL not adequate TO the need Of
tines such - this. An increase Of
eedls&tantambunt 70 an increase in
equipment"
The commissions recommendations.
aA-A - >a{A AAawaWtnW - thn
railroads and shippers OF the United
States. points out that the commerce
ana industries 81 the United States
would suffer- great loss were = car
shortage to continue. It points out
tha4 besides the suffering which would
6ollcw : coal famine from lack OF cars
industries throughout the country
would ~ stopped ~ Lack Of raw ma
storialg and the people It large. would
sou6or serious embarrAssments.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
CRUNCH DuRNS At JAcksoM.
Pm. opesada rhrsatsnlns Town;
Lees $4,000.

49, 1890 rf,
Loss $4,000.
Jackson. Neb.-Fire destroyed the
Catholic church and the priests resi-
6enco ana damaged the sisters acad.
00y ana tAosparish hall here. The
property los was S31,000.y covered by
41g.0oo Insurance.
~. sWllliaM J. O,sullivan. The par
~ Drteek.ssWa1 Severely burned on the
1900 n sroscuinS the blessed sacra-
1ent.a1A the.SaacFed vessels from the
1hogna0G The injuries resulted
jelIineipallyvs from coatact With the heat.
IT. nseo1a
MnnnaU 80 townspeople who
s101kero1 abontsths burning buiadlngs
An1le1onltystn fsssluinins the priest
- aaklng : Anal TRIP into the
G1A1 a~ftees1Aosnre ~ made constd-
Gnnnos hoalNay
sN1k a9oeoct ooOoWhego In the furnace
u WNn6e ~ Aad started to heat
G611nee ~ the Sunday services,
W0Sirool5Uoootblo fof tho blase. a par
St1S6 ShnnteG1 Golng through the town
- oaeaock ~ the nre and turned
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
Gen. Homer Lea Dead

Los Angeles, Cal. Nov. 4.-Gen.
Homer P. Lea, famous throughout the
world as the personal adviser Of Sun
Vat e during the Chinese revolu-
ton and as the author OF The vaior
Of Ignorance" died here Friday.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
New Jersey Strikes Costly.

Trenton. N. J., Nov. According
to figures complied by the state bu-
reau Of vital statistics, $1,9s6.O00 was
lost in New Jersey In the last year
through strikes. The total number
Of days lost was 1904, 900.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
France Wins Balloon RACE

Berlin, Germany, Nov. France
wins the Gordon Bennett international
balloon trophy, regardless OF the per-
formances Of the Dusseldorf and the
Isle de France, which have not yet
reported.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
j. 3. snead Granted eall.

Fort Worth. Tex, Nov. IL. B.
Snead. the rancher who. shot and
killed AL g. Boyes at Amarillo, was
granted ball by the appellate court
herr last Wednesday. The bond was
fixed ct $4,000.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
ar p~.den.powsll Wsds.

London, Nov. 1.-Gen. Sir Baden
Powell. the hero Of Mafeking, wal
married at Parkstone Dorset to Miss
Olaye Soames Of this city Wednesday.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Hon. Radderly.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
rhIrtv voIc.noes Erupt.

Sydney. N. 8. W., Nov. 2.-Thirty
volcanoes are in eruption on the Is
land Of N~inafoon in the Tongan
group, and many remarkable changes
in the physical features Of the island
have resulted.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
okI.hom. a.nk cIoeed.

Washington, Nov. 4.-Comptroller
Of Currency Murray was advised Of
the closing Of the First National
bank Of Welburton, Okla, Friday, be-
cause Of the ~defalcation Of the cash
Ter. The shortage IL 100000.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
German Aviator Killed.

Berlin, Nov. Lieut.. Morris Ham
burger of the imperial aviation corps
was killed Wednesday while making a
night I'VE Oberwiesehfeld, when his
aeroplane fell 200 feet. This 10 the
2O7th air fatality.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
Woman Kills SELF In /, Hotel.

Joliet, Ill, Nov. Mrs. Mabel
Plumbe OF Chicago shot berself
through the head in the Hobbs hotel
here. Her body was found fully
dressed on the bed Friday. The rea-
son for the suicide is not known.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
,,eeme ~ N,ar Rauneatlon.

UWS0Ui0 TX NO0v StAStHCaksONs
Washinxton. Nov. 1.-Thirty-two
states have notified Secretary Knox
Of their ratification Of the proposed
income tax amendment Of the federal
constitution and four have notified the
state department Of their rejection.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
Awarded $4,000 Damages.

Sioux Falls.-A jury in the United
States court, after a trial lasting two
days, returned a verdict awarding An
ton Martinson, a laborer, damages in
the sum of $4,000 against the J.. B.
Nelson Construction company, of Man
kato, MINI. The plaintiff sought to
recover in the sum of 100000 for in
juries while employed by the company
in the work of constructing the new
court house at Brookings, S. D.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
New Sank at stureis.

New Sank at SturgIS.
Pierre.-The Bear Butte Valley
bank; with a $4,000 capital, has organ
lied at Sturgis. 1t is understood to be
a sort of successor to the defunct
Meade County bank. The stockhold-
T. Craig, Ben Baer, w. E. Adams,
Kirk G.. Phillips, Roscoe Keene, Am.
Anderson, w. D.. Hall and Joseph
Meyer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
PLows WITH
Interesting Experiment by a Farmer
Near Pierre. ~

near TICTTCs II
Pierre Flowing with dynamite, as
mare with other methods OF cul-
tivation, is to be given a practical lest
on the Wadleigh ranch, north OF mis-
city, next year. Mr.. WadNigh has
lust completed the breaking OF a little
over an acre by the use OF dynamite,
and finds that he has stirred thesoll
to a depth of about five feet. Ad)oin-
ing the acre he is working up another
acre with a subsoil plow II next
spring will pillow a third acre In the
usual manner of preparing for crop.
These three acres will be planted TO
corn, and all will receive the same
kind Of cultivation. at the same time,
and a practical test OF the difference
will be shown.
While there has been complaint or
the damage done by the dry weather
in June in the central part OF the
state. several reports are worthy or
mention. w. w. Hewitt, in southeast
ern Potter county, reports a yield or
planted to those vegetables, produc-
ing a lot Of food for cattle from that
sized area.
Fred LIE P'"nt. on the newly opened
country wee. # the Missouri, near the
new town of Trail City. raised 100
bushels Ct potatoes to the acre on a
3O-acre tract. Neither of these were in
any way irrigated, and the return is
secured by cultivation and care.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08

Face Term in Prison.
Sioux Falls.-The case of the United
States VS.. D. B. Bowersox, Orville
Bowersox, Mary Bowersox and A. D.
Shepard, which was pending trial in
the federal court at Sioux Falls, came
to an abrupt termination when D.. P.
Bowersox, Orville Bowersox and A. D.
Shepard appeared in court and with
drew their former pleas of not guilty
and entered pleas of guilty to the
seven counts in the indictment, each
charging the several defendants with
conspiring to defraud h United
States of the title to certain of its pub
lie lands by means of illegal entries
made by dummy" entrymen.
The lands involved are in Trip
county, S. D., and the defendants are
residents of Trip county, Orville
Bowersox and A. D. Shepard having
been engaged in the banking business
there for some time.
Sentence will be pronounced on the
defendants by Judge Elliot about Nov
ember 6.
Mrs. Mary Bowersox, wife of D.. B.
Bowersox, one of the defendants in the
case, was unable to be present in
court when the case was called up by
reason of having to undergo an oper-
alton for appendicitis at a Sioux Falls
hospital a few days before. Her case
was continued until December IS,
when she will be placed on trial for the
offense of conspiracy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
THE DISASTER TO THE TITANIC

of life boats and life rafts was piti- fully inadequate. Not more than one person in three on board could be taken. Life preservers there appear to have been in plenty, but these axe practically useless in a disaster on the high seas, and must have been doubly useless in the waters about Cape Race, where the frigid polar currents meet the Gulf stream.
 The lesson to be drawn from the catastrophe is that adequate meas ures must be taken for the salvage of life when the ship is irretrievably wrecked.
 No vessel can be built, apparently that will certainly endure the tre- mendous shock of collision with rock or iceberg, though doubtless the builders of the Titanic believed they had created an unsuitable" ship. The vessels of the future must be made as safe as human ingenuity can make them, but they must be equip ped with life boats and life rafts up- on the theory that they may be to- tally wrecked at any instant, and provision must be made for every person on board.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16

The later reports from the wreck of the Titanic show an almost com plete disaster. It would appear from such facts as are available at the moment when this editorial is writ ten that the great ship, making her first voyage, the last word that civil iization had offered in the ship build CTS art, went down in the darkness of early morning, few hours after striking an iceberg, and before any of the craft rushing to her rescue could reach her.
 The life boats appear to have been hastily manned, and the women and children placed in them and seit away from the ships side, beyond the suction of the whirlpool she would make in sinking.
 And here was the weak spot the owners had left, in their precautions against disaster. Everything that human ingenuity could device to make the Titanic safe within herself had been accomplished.
 The precautions that were devised in case she should prove unsafe were entirely insufficient. The equipment
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
WILBUR WRIGHT, 45 TODAY,
 A "CRAZY CRANK WHO MADE GOOD

owning wheels" became experts in repairing. Naturally of mechanical turn of mind, they decided that a repair shop would afford interesting as we'll as profitable labor. The first place of business was mere shanty. Their initial invention was a glider, constructed along the principles of a kite, and it was while testing this machine at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, that they hit upon the plan of building a similar contraption with a motor and attempting the conquest of the air. When they returned to Dayton they began work in earnest on this idea, and the result was the Wright aeroplane.
 Although the wrights were the first to perfect a heavier-than-air ma- chine, and make it fly, other men in various parts of the world were en- ragged at the same time in similar experiments. One of these was Hugo Hattulath, of New York, who on Jan. 8, 1900, filed an application for a patent for flying machine, his spec ifications including wing-tip flexing device. Although Hattulath is now dead, his patent is said to threaten the validity of the Wright patents This month the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia reversed the action of the United States Commis sioner of Patents and authorized the reinstatement of the Hattulath pat ent.
 Both of the Wright brothers are modest, unassuming, democratic Americans, and the honors heaped upon them by the people and gov- ernments of the United States and other nations have not gone to their. heads. In fact, they wear the same size hats as in the old days when they were "crazy cranks,'' and the objects of the good-natured ridicule of their Dayton neighbors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
SPRING TIME

CWritten for The Farmer by Cora
 Hartman.) The birds are crooning sweet and low, Across the sky the soft clouds go, And over hill and dale and plain Fall misty veils of sh'owering rain. Like a faint violin. the Spring winds And here and there the grass blades
 show. Buds are swelling on bush and tree Just tipped with green, they seem to
 be. And now the birds burst forth in
 sound.
 A gleam of sunshine gilds the
 ground. The rain drops glitter in the air, And sparkle like wet diamonds there.
 know, The fish are swimming to and fro. Calmly swimming in the water clear
 and cold In the shadow, molten silver. in the
 sunshine. furnished gold. Bending near, the Cowslip shows It's golden buds, and the purple sweet
 flag grows. And water cress and white violets
 blow. And moss cupped, their pale blue
 sisters. nod in rows. Under "the satin bark of birch trees
 high'' The wee pink Tipped Arbutus children
 lie. Only to those, that love them, they
 breathe their fragrant sigh, But hide. under the dead leaves, from
 careless passers by. And we, who are more than bud or
 blossom or wing or song, Know that with Ills guidance, things
 cannot go always wrong. We who are His children, Children of
 Eternal Spring. Will lift our heads in courage and
 defy Fate's cruelest sting. We'll cast aside the dead leaves, the
 rubbish of our fears. We'll grow again the plant of Hope
 well watered by our tears. We'll bid defiance, now. to Winters
 icy darts. And all athrill with Nature, we'll have
 Springtime in our hearts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16

The first definite step in the tragedy which led to the execution of the ill., fated Emperor Maximilian of Mexico was taken half a century ago today, when the French declared war against Juarez, the President of Mexico. The English and Spanish alliesfwere withdrawn from the ex- petition, leaving the French to prose- cute the war for the establishment Of an empire on the ruins of the Mexi- can republic. For time the Euro pean invaders were successful, and by 1864 held possession of most of Mexico. The occupation continued until 1867, when the United States, again a united country, assumed 8 hostile attitude toward the disturbers of American peace. France then de- serted the cause of Maximilian, leav- ing him to his fate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
HOME HEALTH CLUB

wHOOPING COUGHAThis afflic- tion, peculiar to children as a rule, is so-called because of a peculiar "whoop' in the paroxysms of the second stage of the disease. It is contagious and usually occurs epi- demically and is self-limited. fOne att tack of it generally immunes the sub- ject from having it again. It has three distinct stages, if proper treat ment does not conquer it in the first. The patient may show evidence of the disease in AS hours, or it may not become palpable for eight weeks af- ter exposure.
 Whooping cough is much more dangerous ailment than is generally supposed and it is liable to serious complications under improper treat ment that bring about other afflic- ruinous to a child's general health, or the wreck of some special function. It's first stage is more catarrhal than otherwise, the onset being caused by common cold and lasts from one to five weeks. many of the symptoms be- ing those Of hay fever and acute ca tarrh, such as sneezing, watery eyes, headaches, slight levers or chilliness, indisposition and frequent coughing.
 Treatment should be applied in the first stage, and if carefully and sen sibly given, will generally ward off the second stage. The patient should be warmly clothed. seasonably, and especially the feet should be kept warm and dry. After diluted acetic acid bath and a good rubbing with olive oil. or almond oil. put the child to bed and apply dry heat to the feet. Give cup of hot ginger tea with 1-2 grain of cayenne pepper added. To relieve the paroxysms of coughing, give from the twelve tissue clements (obtained in a Homeopathic drug store) Kali Mur in tablet form of about the 9th trituration, to tab- lets according to the age of the pa- tient 6 times daily. Generally this will suffice to check the disease.
 The second stage-if it has not been turned aside-is extremely distressing to the child and alarming to inexper- fenced attendants. More severe