The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-02-08
EXCESSIVE DRINKING
IS PROBABLE REASON
OF EDWARDS SUICIDE
Recent Eccentricities of County
Official Brought to Close
at Kansas City.

Yankton, S. D., Feb. 3.-LittIe fur
Their is known here this morning of
Tfion1as Edwards, who was found dead,
shot through the head, on a driveway
at Kansas City, yesterday. The indica-
tons point to suicide. Edwards was!
in ompany here last Sunday with a
! young southerner who registered under
the name of C. j. Taylor, of Memphis,
Tenn. They left together for Kansas
City. Excessive drinking ending in
mental breakdown and dependency,
those who know him best say was the
cause of Edwards taking his life.
Kansas City, Mo, Feb. "A we'll
dressed man, shot through the head,
was found along the bushes about 30
feet from the Kersey Coates drive, be-
tween Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
Two feet away from hin was a revolv~
er, with one empty shell in it. An iden-
LITIGATION care in his pocekt gave the
name Of Thomas Edwards, Yankton,
S. D.
A message has been sent to the
Eagles lodge, of Yankton, of which the
Identification card showed the owner to
be a member. No reason for suicide,
however, has been learned.
The body was found by B. A. Wal
dron. TOT East Ninth street, who is en-
ployed by the park board. Tn man
had evidently been dead -four or five
hours. He appeared to be about As
years old and prosperous. He regis
tered at the Convention hotel, Twelfth
and Broadway, Tuesday, January 80,
and left there yesterday.
cURTlss REGARDS NEWSPAPER
OPPOSITION AS AN ASSET
Aberdeen, S. D., Feb. 3.-Ira O. Cur
| tiSc- candidate for. tho rnr,,I1Saor nm
nation for congress from the Second
district in opposition to Charles H..
Burke, he present incumbent. opened
his campaign this week in a speech at
Columbia. Curtiss is the man who, as
a state senator from his county, at the
last session of the South Dakota legis-
lature, introduced the bill, which be-
came a. law, providing that the meas
ures submitted to the initiative or ref
erendum, under the provisions of the
state constitution, shall be submitted to
the voters in pamphlet form, instead Of
being printed in the official papers Of
each county, as the old law provided.
Curtiss' action deeply angered the
newspaper publishers Of the state, not
so much because Of the provisions of
the law itself, they claim, as on ac-
count of the language used by Curtiss
in advocating the measure, In which he
called the newspaper men "grafters"
and other unpretty ame Curtiss
was subjected to much criticism from
the press for a time, and after the ad-
journment Of the legislature announced
his determination to run for congress.
He claims in his speeches that his bill
saved the state SITS, 600 annually, and
Is making his campaign largely on his
record as the author of the pamphlet
law. With but a few exceptions, every
paper in the district he seeks to rep
resent either ignores him completely or
opposes him violently, but Curtiss pro-
fesses to regard the opposition of the
newspapers as an asset, and expresses
a determination to speak in every
township in the district between now
and Tune 4, when the primaries are
held. He is perhaps the only candidate
In the United States who seeks office
on the ground hat the are
opposed to him.