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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
LABOR NEWS.

Girls and boys. fourteen and fifteen
years old. striking mill workers from
Lawrence, Mass. testified before the
house committee on rules which =
considering a resolution to investigate
conditions which followed attempts to
send children from the strike ridden
city. Children told OF working long
hours, how they had to pay the Amsri.
can Woolen company cents week
for drinking water. which they de-
scribed as canal water" Some ea
them told Of seeing women beaten by
police and children knocked down and
hurled into wagons like bundles a
rags"
Announcement was made ON behalf
Of the anthracite coal operators that
their decision regarding the demands
OF the United Mine Workers of Amer.
ica would not be made public until
the conference between the operators;
committee and the miners March u!
It Is currently believed the principal
demands Of the miners will be re.
jected.
The American Woolen company has
notified its agents in all Of tis thirty!
three mills in New England and New,
York state to advance wages per
cent. The order affects about 30, 0,0o(
operatives The strikers at Lawrence
Mass, have rejected the offer.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
CRIMINAL NEWS.

Bert H. Franklin, the former Nc.
Namara detective who pleaded guilty
to charge of having tried to influ-
ence juror in the trial of James B.
Mcnamara at Los Angeles, Cal, was
fined $4,000 by Judge Cabiniss, who
pronounced Franklin's conduct dam.
nable"
Because of her inability to earn
enough money to keep her four chill
dren from starving Mrs. L. F. Jellson,
thirty-six years old, of Salem, Ore,
administered cyanide Of potassium to
each of them and then drank dose
herself. All five are dead.
Standing seven for acquittal and
i've for conviction the jury which
tried John B. Sneed for the murder
OF Captain A. G. Boyce. the aged Pan.
handle cattle king. was discharged at
Fort Worth, Tex. The jury was out
liz hours.
Mrs. John Epperson of Brookfield,
Mo-, fell to the floor dead when she
received word that her daughter, Mrs.
Millie Perry. had been slain by her
husband, who then committed suicide
at Salida. Colo.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
FOREIGN TROOPS AT TlENIsIN
International Force There to Be
Largely Augmented.

Tientsin, March 6-Two United
States gunboats have been ordered to
proceed to Taku, at the mouth of the
Psiho, thirty miles to the southeast
Of this city.
Three battalions of Japanese troops
are expected to arrive here shortly to
reinforce the international garrison.
The German troops, which have
been acting as protective force along
the railroad between Poitang and
Tangshan. on the line from Tientsin
to Chinwangtao, have been withdrawn
to Tientsin, as it is considered by the
foreign commandants that stronger
forces than are at present available
here are required. AS the Peiho is
now open to traffic the railroad guards
between Tientsin and Shanhaikwan,
on the Manchurian border, are no
longer essential for the preservation
Of communication between Peking and
the sea.
Reports persist in Chinese circles
that 4 body of native troops is ad-
vancing on Tientsin, but no confirma-
tion of the rumor has been obtained
The city generally is quiet, but de-
capitations take place daily. Many Of
the shops have put up signs reading:
Already looted. Now empty"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS

President Taft will soon start a Wig
orous speechmaling campaign to eX-
plain his position on current questions
and further his candidacy for renomi-
nation Before the Republican national
convention meets in June the presi.
dent will spend many days on the
road and is expected to deliver scores
Of speeches He will travel as lar
West as Chicago, as far North as New
Hampshire and South at least as fal.
as Georgia
President Taft is to follow up
Colonel Roosevelt's New England trip.
This is the declaration of prominent
Taft supporters at the White House.
1t was decided to add to the presi-
dents itinerary when he is at Boston
on March 18 at least day or two
and include speeches at Nashua and
Concord, N. H.
Attorney General Wickersham says
that he will resign from the American
Bar association if that organization
sustained the action of it's executive
committee in ousting William H.
Lewis, negro and an assistant attor-
ney general, from membership.
James Wilson, secretary Of agricul-
ture, has broken all records for con-
tfnuous service in presidential cabi-
nets. Mr.. Wilson was first appointed
by President Mckinley in 1897 and
successively by Presidents Roosevelt
and Taft
Jim Flynn and Jack Johnson will,
meet in twenty-round bout for the
heavyweight championship of the
world at or near Wendover, Utah, on
lulY ~
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
COLONEL Makes
LETTER PUBLIC
Document Has Bearing on
Question Of Candidacy.
PREFERRED TO KEEP OUT

Felt It His Duty, However, to Servo
the Public if the People as a Whole
Came to the Conclusion That He
Should Take up the Burden.
New York, March 6.-To clear up
conflicting statements as to what he
had said in the past in regard to the
presidential nomination Colonel Roose.
velt made public letter which he
wrote last January to Frank A. Nun.
sey, the publisher Colonel Roose-
velt's object In giving out the com
munication, he said, was to refute the
charge that he was breaking promise
In agreeing to accept the nomination
IL it were offered to him.
He called particular attention to
passage in the letter in which, while
stating that he would not be can
didate, he declared that he would not
go on record as being unwilling to ac-
cept the nomination.
"To every man | talked to-" said
Colonel Roosevelt, 81 made, in sub
stance, that same statement and l
made 1t in literally hundreds of let
ters"
The portion of the Munsey letter to
which the colonel called particular at
tention follows:
"What I have said to you, and am
about to say to you, l have said not
only to other friends who think
ought to be nominated but to friends
(and even foes) who think ought not
to be nominated, provided only l could
trust their sincerity, intelligence and
truthfulness.
Accepts Task for Good of People.
II am not and shall not be candi
date. shall not seek the nomination.
nor would ] accept.it if it came to me
as the result of an intrigue. But I
! will not tie my hands by statement
| which would make it difficult or Inn
possible for me to serve the public by
undertaking a great task if the people
as whole seemed definitely to come
to the conclusion that ! ought to do
that task.
I'm other words, as far as in me lies
I am endeavoring to look at this mat
ter purely from the standpoint of the
public interest, of the interest of the
people as whole. and not in the least
from my own standpoint.
"If ] should consult only my own
pleasure and interests l should most
emphatically and Immediately an
nounce that l would under no circum-
stances run. have had all the honor
that any man can have from holding
the Office Of president. From every
personal standpoint there is nothing
for me to gain, either in RAINING for
the Office or In holding the Office once
more, and there is very much to lose"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
WASHINGTON NEWS.

President Taft has taken the initia.
tive In movement to bring business
men Of the country into touch With
the government for advice and coun-
eel in the administration of laws, the
{ enactment of new statutes and the
development of commerce. Virtually
the president proposes a national
board OF trade, broadly representative
OF all commercial and industrial or.
gantzations and of such character az
the government may recognize by a
federal charter
At cabinet meeting at the White
House 1t was deemed expedient that
PRESIDENT Taft issue a proclamation
urging citizens of the United States
to comply strictly with the neutrality
laws of the United States in all mat.
ters affecting Maxico. In effect the
proclamation is warning to Amer.
cans to stay OFT of Mexico at this
&ime
England, Russia, Germany and Japan
have responded favorably to Secretary
-Knox's invitation to place themselve:
on record with the United States for
che continued integrity of China ant.
Join action without seeking individua,
advantage in any concerted movement
Of the powers which may become dec.
essary in the present disturbances.
Startling announcements of canni.
balism among starving 'Persians are
contained in letters from Teheran to
The Persian-American Educational so.
oiety at Washington from DR.. Susan
Moody, formerly of Chicago. She do.
ciares fathers are eating their childres
and children are eating each other IN
Northwestern Persia.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
FOREIGN NEWS.

Because the coal miners had peea
able to gain government recognition
of their grievances by threatening the
business cf the country the lEnglis i
suffragettes also entered upon 3 pol
Icy of menace to trade by breaking
the windows, of shops in the NEST
prosperous section of London The
police were taken unaware and before
they were able to muster their tor IS
and restrain the women the s11seats
were covered with shattered plate
glass from the show windows of
stores.
Chinese imperial troops at Peking
have mutinied and burned and pillaged
large sections of the city. Several
hundred people have been killed The
loss by the incendiary fires are esti.
mated at $15,0O0,OO0 The foreign
ministers decided to bring into Peking
all the available foreign troops sta
toned in adjacent ports In China. A
force of 1000 troops of various ma
tionalities have reached the city.
With the exception of few small
oollieries situated in isolated districts
all the coal mines of Great Britain are
idle. The only mine in the country
where the men have decided to re
main at work is little one in North
ern Wales and here the mining is car
ried on under police protection. An
official return estimates the number
who have already laid down their
tools at 100000.
Juarez, Mex, is in possession OF
Vasquista rebels. Firing but one OF
two volleys and meeting no resistance
except few scattering shots in reply
to their first volley the rebels marched
into the town. They captured the ma
chine guns that had been brought tc
repel the rebels and took charge OF
oil public buildings
Summoned by President Madero
Colonel Beppino Garibaldi sailed from
Rome from Mexico to take command
Of the federal army in an effort tc
suppress the vasquista revolt. Carl
baldi was one of Madero's chief lieu
tenants in the rebellion against the
Diaz government
Thirty-one lives paid the penalty o1
. revolt in the penitentiary at Mon
terey, Mex. 1t is said that six of the
prisoners were killed during the out
break and twenty-five others regarded
as ringleaders were executed.
The brewery belonging to Armand
ter Bros. at Valdivia, Chile, the larg
est in South America, was totally de
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at $4,000, 600
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Powers May Take Action tt
Restore Order.
MANCHUS STILL HOPEFUL
Said to Be Planning a Movement TO,
the Restoration of the Ancien,
Dynasty-Japanese Guard at Picking
Reinforced by Twelve Hundred
Picked Men From Port Arthur.


Toxic, March 6,-Grave apprehen
sion is felt here over the Chinese sit
uation. Despite the quieting down OF
Peking, Tlentsin and the central prov
inces there is a widespread belief
among japanese familiar with the sit
uation that at most there is only a lul
In the campaign of murder and rapine
Yuan Shi kai, it is declared here, has
utterly failed as an administrator.
The entire Chinese army, it is said
is demoralized, Yuan Shi Kai's person
al bodyguard no longer fears him and
his officers are more concerned with
filling their private purses than with
attempting to restore order. In addi
ton, it is said, the republican leaders
have failed to keep their promises te
their troops and the latter, practical
ly without money and with back pay
for months due and no prospect of
getting any of it, are wavering in thei1
allegiance
Many who could aid in restorin,,
the government have taken position
of aloofness because they are not in
sympathy with the new republic. They
demand the restoration of the mon
archy. The Manchus are reported to
be planning movement to restore the
ancient dynasty. If this movement be-
comes formidable foreign intervention
must come.
The Japanese legation guard in Pc
king was reinforced by 1000 picked
men taken from the Port Arthur gar
rison. These men are all tried vet
Grams, who can be depended on in any
emergency. The Japanese government
has communicated with the powers
and has offered to send an army corps
TO keep order in China if needed. It is
not believed here, however, that the
powers will take advantage of this of.
fer because of the prevailing impress
sion that Japan's designs on China are
not entirely humanitarian.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
0UTc0I,.,E|:: MAY
Be BL.OODSHED
English suffragettes Deter:
mined to Win Ballet.
LONDON In STATE OF SlEGE

Demonstrations Have Grown Beyons
Control of the Police and Proprie
tors of Big Stores Have Specia
Guards or Board Up Windows-Wo
men Cheer Proposal to Burn Dow
the Royal Palace.
London, March Gone million de
voted women, firm in the belief tina
they have been refused rights guaran
teed them months ago by Premier AS
Quith and the present British govern
ment. and stung to anger by the calm
refusal of Asquith and his colleagues
to grant them a hearing, have brough;
about situation that threatens to
overshadow the great labor troubles
The demonstrations of the womer
advocates of equal suffrage have
reached point where the police car
no longer prevent nor control them
Violence of type peculiarly aggra
waiting has been ordered by the lead
ers and wholesale arrests, instead o,
checking it, have merely enhanced the
determination of the women.
There is grave danger that the out
come will be bloodshed. 1t is known
that Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst and
others of the leaders of the ultra mill
tant body hope that this will come
AS she was led away to her cell last
week Mrs. Pankhurst declared the
cause would have been advanced ten
years had she been killed.
1T will take martyrs to stir the
country to a realization of our bitter
determination" she cried at the meet
ing that preceded the demonstration
that began the present fight
Will Continue to Be Militant.
I'VE will be militant until we gain
our rights" said the leaders. "If oul
methods are not strong enough there
are others in reserve"
And the women who utter these sen
timents are not the rabble of the East
End. They are the representative wo
men of London. Mrs Pethick Law
renee, highly educated, a powerful
platform speaker and an editor OF
note, made this prediction:
"We will terrorize this country or
we will get our rights" she cried, and
an audience Of gentle women, refined
and most of them wealthy in their
own right, cheered her statements to
the echo.
IF we have to, We will burn down
the royal palace ITSELF" declared Mrs
Lawrence again, and that incenGiary
sentiment likewise received a cheer.
ing welcome from the women listen
ers.
The city looks as if it We're in a
state of SIEGE Nearly every big store
window is boarded up. The banks
maintain special guards outside to
keep the women away The entire
metropolitan police is on continual
duty. Every one is kept moving and
women suspected of planning violence
are rushed to the police station to be
searched
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NEWS Ct WORLD
Important EE;.ss.,.ts Ct i.Ia |.'as.; s.a:.';
in CONDENSED Fem.
POLITICAL NEWS.

colonel Ro0SeveltS own views Qi
the present political situation and his
reasons for entering the campaign
have been explained by him. AS he
trudged along the country road from
Oyster Bay village to his home at Saga.
more Hill the former president talked
freely OF his prospects and briefly
stated that his reason for entering into
q political campaign as an active can
didate was that men who share his
political beliefs had convinced him
that they needed an effective leader
AS to the prospects of victory Colonel
Roosevelt expressed the opinion that
on popular vote he would be the
choice of his party by a big majority.
How far this result might be modified
by the interposition of the machinery
OF politics he was unable to say.
The Roosevelt campaign assumed
fefnite form with the appointment of
the men who are to assume active
management. Senator Joseph M.
Dixon of Montana is the man at the
helm. His official title is chairman of
the executive committee of the Ma
tional Roosevelt committee. The ex.
ecutive committee is to have general
supervision over the campaign. Sena.
tor Dixon's associates on the commit.
tee are Frank Knox, chairman of the
Republican central committee of Mich.
igan; William l.. Ward, Republican ma
honal committeeman from New York
Walter Brown, chairman of the Ohio
Republican central committee; Cecil
Lyon, Texas national committeeman,
and Senator William Flynn of Pitts.
burg.
The political situation in New Eng.
land was canvassed at length at Bos
ton by Colonel Roosevelt and the men
who are leading the Roosevelt move.
ment in the Northeastern states. Gov.
ernor Robert Bass of New Hampshire; I;
Fred p. Hale of Portland, Me-, son of
the former United States senator, and
a score of other men active in politics
attended conference at the home of
Grafton D. Gushing, speaker of the
Massachusetts house.
Colonel Roosevelt says that it il
perfectly true that he had said he
would not be a candidate for presi.
dent in 1912. He had made that state.
ment to MANY persons. he said, but
had not declared that he would not ac.
eept the nomination if it were ten.
dered to him. He drew distinction
between becoming a candidate and
being willing to accept the nomination
That Senator La Toilette will con
tinue in the race for the Republican
nomination to the presidency and that
he will go into the Chicago convention
with all the delegates he can muster
to fight for the progressives princi
pies he represents and to battle for
the nomination, is indicated in state
ment over the senator's signature pub
Mshed in La Follettes Magazine.
To combat the governors letter.
which brought forth Colonel Roose
velt's announcement of his candidacy
the headquarters of the Taft boom a;
Washington gave out statements from
nine Republican governors. including
Governor Eberhart of Minnesota. en-
dorsing the president for a second
term.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

E ,..yus we're killed, three mee-
tally injured and dozen others less
seriously hurt in fire which musk
roomed its way through a four-story
apartment house in New York city.
William Henry Hall. . wealthy rs-
tired capitalist, is dead at New York
from injuries received when he was
struck by an automobile.
Three persons lost their Lives at .
Aee IN tenement house ct Bosto0
Nearly seventy escaped In safety. I.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
Young Hughes Heads TAFT Club.

Cambridge. Mass, March 6.-Charles
Evans Hughes, Jr., son of Justice
Hughes Of the United States supreme
court and member of the Harvard
law school. is the president of the
newly formed William Howard Taft
club Of Harvard The organization
has 200 members, with Horace j.
Smith of Denver as vice president and
Samuel M. Rinaker of Beatrice, Neb.,
% secretary treasurer.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
Forty Christians Massacred.

Peking, March GA letter from q
missionary at Hwanghsien, near Chi
fu, states that the imperial troops put
out the eyes of forty Christian con-
verts and beheaded them, saying that
they were naturally rebels.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
Coercion to Defeat Primary,

Lansing, Mich, March 6.--Governor
Chase S. Osborn sent a message to
the Legislature, which is in special sss.
sion for the purpose of enacting p
presidential primary law, calling the
attention Of the members to the "out-
saseous methods of coercion and in
anidation" which he charges are be-
hS used TO defeat The proposed Law.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
IN PREPARATION FOR STRIKE
Anthracite Coal Operators Storing UP
Supplies.

Wilkesbarre, Pa. March Cit is es-
timated here that the anthracite coal
operators have about G,O00,OO0 tons of
coal in storage in preparation for a
strike, which may come when the ex-
listing agreement expires on March 81
There is also about 100000 tons in
New York city, almost half million
tons above the normal supply. Most
Of the railroads have about a months
supply in hand.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
Many Killed at waIhaIweI.

Waihaiwei, China, March 6-It is
estimated that 1000 people were killed
in the course of the recent fighting be-
tween the republicans and the villag-
ers outside the British concessions
here. The republican troops are now
In complete control Of the situation.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
SHIPPING TRUST INQUIRY
Resolution Adopted Directs investIaa.
ton Of Combines Activities.

Washington. March Ga probe Of
the activities of the shipping trust
was directed by the house when it
adopted practically unanimously a
resolution directing the merchant ma
rine and fisheries committee to pro-
ceed at once to an investigation OF
the control of shipping by the for
eign ship combine.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
PERCY ASKED TO RESIGN
Mississippi Senate Demands Senator.
Resignation.

Jackson, Miss. March 6.-By a
strict factional vote of 26 to 13 the
Mississippi state senate passed reso-
lution demanding that United States
Senator Leroy Percy resign.
The resolution now goes to the
house Tor concurrence
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-03-08
STANDS BY THE COMMISSION
Commerce Court Refuses Injunction
Of Order on Coal Rates.

Washington, March 6-An order
was issued by the commerce court de-
nying the application for an injunc-
ton against an order of the interstate
commerce commission fixing reason
able ratas for the transportation Of
bituminous coal from Illinois mines
TO Chicago and points beyond, includ.
ing Milwaukee.