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farmer MAY DIE
William F. GruenWald Shot
When He ReSists HOldup.
Companion Did Not Report
Shooting to Officers.

Manhattan, Oct. 19.-In attempting
to evade two highwaymen. William f.
Gruenwald. a bachelor farmer and
stock raiser, residing west of the BlaZ
ing ranch on upper Deep Creek, was
dangerously wounded in the back, at
the hands of one of the holdup men.
SiXty-one shot entered the back
of the victim and fOrty-twO entered
the saddle resting upon the horse up0n
which Gruenwald was riding. Ernest
King, young man of is years of age,
who was accompanying Gruenwald,
escaped the highwaymen.
The cause of the holdup was evil
IDENTIFY to secure $500 received the dav
before by the wounded man from 4
sale of cattle. He did not, however,
have the money on him.
The story of the shooting as told
by Sheriff Frank Schermerhorn and
DR.. Clarkson, who were called to the
scene is that GrunewaId, together with
King was returning from the ranch of
Robert Grunewald eight miles distant.
When near the old farm house of the
Blazing ranch they were accosted ~
two masked men. They called to
them. Throw up your hands and hold
them -- high Both men held shot
guns, each one holding up his own
man.
Instead of complying with the COM
mand, King whirled his horse to the
rear and started on a wild gallop TO
his home, Grunewald took the other
course and putting spurs to his sad
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How to Get Rid
of Catarrh
A Simple Safe, Reliable Way and i
Costs Nothing to Try.

Those who suffer from Icatarrh know
its miseries. There is no need of this
suffering. You can get rid of it by a
simple, safe inexpensive, home treat
ment discovered by DR.. Blosser, Who,
for over thirty-six years. has been
treating catarrh successfully.
His treatment is unlike any other.
is not a spray. douche, salve. cream.
0. inhaler. but is more direct and
thorough treatment than any Of these.
1t cleans out the head, nose throat and
Iur gs so that you can again breathe
freely and sleep without that sopped up
feeling that all catarrh sufferers have
It heals the diseased mucous membranes
and arrests the foul discharge, so that
you will not be constantly blowing your
nose and splitting, and at the same time
it does not poison the Svsyem and ruin
the stomach. as internal medicines G p.
If you want to test tits treatment
without cost, send your address to DR..
w. Blosser, 612 Walton Street, At
larta, Ga, and he will send you by re-
turn mail enough of the medicine to
satisfy you that it is all he claims for
il as a remedy for cataTrh, catarrhal
headaches, catarrhal deafness, asthma
bronchitis, colds and ali catarrhal
complications. He will also send you
free an illustrated booklet. Write him
immediately.-AdV.
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IN ASYLUM A YEAR: SANE.
Boy Now Attends School in Wyandotte
County.

Kansas City, Oct. 19.-The doors of
the insane asylum, which closed be-
hind him a year ago, have opened to
Samuel Bradshaw, IA years old. and
now he is attending school in Wyan
dotte county. Kan.
The story of how a boy, then 10 years
old, was sent to an asylum and brand
ed as criminal insane and later dis
covered there, further examined and
released. is told on the records of the
Wyandotte county courts. These rec
ordS show that on August %, 1911, the
boy was brought before two physicians
and examined at the request of an un-
Gle. The records state that he had no
friends, both parents were dead; that
he had spent four years in an orphan
. age and then went to live with the
uncle who complained that he had cut
little girl with a knife.
He was sent to an asylum to await
removal to Topeka.
When his turn came the bow was
taken 10 Topeka. The authorities were
surprised to find boy among the in
sane. They questioned him. Then
they wrote to John T. Sims, juvenile
judge:
1.-The place for this boy is a reform
school if he has mishaved. He is not
insane
The boy was examined again. The
judge brought the matter before the
county commissioners. They could not
find his relatives, who had moved
from the city. So he was ordered ia
ken to the poor farm at Hornif and the
superintendent entered him in school.
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CINDER PUT OUT HIS EYE.
Workman Says Engine Was Not
Equipped With Spark Arrester.

independence. Kan, Oct. 19.-For the
loss of an eye. a. w. Whitmill wants
$2,999 and seeks to get this amount
from the Western States Portland Ce-
ment company in suit brought in the
district court through his attorney, s.
H. Piper.
The petition filed with the district
clerk sets forth that the plaintiff was
at the time he received the injury COM
planned of a Waterman employed at
the plant
The accident occurred October II,
1910. Whitmill alleges that the COM
pany kept two locomotive switch en-
gines at work in the yards switching
cars and that on the date mentioned
he was attending to his regular du-
ties.
One of the engines, he says. passed
by belching a large amount of smoke
and cinders and very large cinder,
red hot, few into his eye. The cinder
burned his eye and the eye ball and
entirely destroyed the sight of the eye,
the left one.
He claims that the engine was not
supplied with spark arrester and that
if 1t had the accident could not have
happened.
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JUMPS 90 FEET FOR LIBERTY.
Then Reformatory Youth Is Captured
Without Difficulty.

Hutchinson. Kan. Oct. 19.-Frank
Jtnes, an inmate of the Reformatorv
jumped off the Reformatory wall,
twenty feet high. in daring dash for
liberty but was recaptured and return
ed to the institution.
Jones attempted escape was one OF
the most daring in the history of the
institution. In plain sight of the Re
lorna tory guards, he was discovered
running along the broad top of The
wall. When a cry was made to stop.
he jumped.
Jones arose stunned and bruised
from. his leap and started to run, but
ne was so wobbly from his fall thar
he was captured by the guards quickly.
The Refornatory whistle did act
sound the escape signal, as Jones " As
recaptured before he was off of the
Reformatory territory.
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Company B, Seventh infantry, receiv-
ed a warrant from the chief of ord
nance appointing him ordnance ser
geant in the army to date from Oc-
tober 9. Sergeant Jahant is one of the
old timers in the Seventh and his pro-
motion is a reward for long and
faithful service. He was examined
in February. 1911, and stood No. in
a class of So which is sufficient evil
dence of his fitness for his present po-
sition. Sergeant Jahant is one of the
most popular noncommissioned officers
of the post. He is a leader in the
social affairs of the enlisted men and
is an officer in the United Spanish
War Veterans lodge of the post.
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YOUTHFUL ELoPERs MISSING.
Taken Home After Marriage They
Again Disappear.


St Joseph, Mo, Oct. 19.-The St.
Joseph police received telephone mes
sage from W. H. Tucker of Atchison,
-sking that they arrest Roy Gillings
ana wife, who is fuckers daughter.
Ci!lings is twenty years old and nis
wife is fifteen. They were taken into
custody here several weeks ago after
they eloped from Atchison and had been
rcarried by a magistrate in ST. Joseph.
At that time Tucker came here and
Icck them back to Atchison, after re-
considering his announced determn-
ration to prosecute young Billings for
PERJURY in representing to the marriage
license clerk that he and the girl were
ct age.
After the party returned to Atchisnl.
the girl resumed her place in the Tuck
er household and the boy returned to n
farm on the Missouri side of the river.
where he had been employed. 1t was
said by the brides father that tha
N erriage would be permitted to stand.
The sppposition now is that the par
enls of the young Mrs. Billings at
tempted to prevent her husband from
seeing or communicating with her and
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CUPID WATTS ON SEARCH.
Pretty Bride-to-Be Would Not Wed
Without Handkerchief.

Pretty Bride-tO-Be Would Not Wed
Without Handkerchief.
Wichita, Kan, Oct. 19.-Loss of the
hrf1e's handkerchief delayed the mar
rage of Lew William Fitzgerald of
Murdoch and Maud Marford for an
hour While Judge McCanIess was
v~aiting to pronounce the young per
sons man and wife. the young woman
was initiating her husband-tobe into
the art of finding things she had lost.
Get married without a handkerchief?
Certainly she would not. When size
discovered the bit of linen was miss
ing there was nothing to it but to fin
the article
You look there Lew" she said, an
Lew did, there being the counCv
clerks office. She scrutinized every
corner of the first story corridor and
found the handkerchief before Lew had
finished asking about the world G
series game. When the bit of fnery
was recovered the couple were mar
rie6. The young mans age is p AMI
the girls II.
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TEDDY OWES LIFE TO TWO AGENCIES: MANUSCRIPT THAT STOPPED
BULLETS FORCE and STENOGRAPHER WHO FEED THE ASSASSIN

Theodore Roosevelt may thank two
agencies that he IL alive and on
rapid road to recovery from the In
Jury that was inflicted upon him by
a mad man at Milwaukee The hrst
is the manuscript OF his Milwaukee
speech-almost 100 pagee-which the
bullet struck, and which weakened the
missiles force. The other Is Ebert
e. Martin. the stenographer in the
Roosevelt party who felled the would
be assassin before he had time to fire
a second shot into the colonel's body.
Martin is shown holding the manu-"
script in the accompanying picture
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PREFERS KANSAS TO WIFE.

Jens Peter Pedersen Thinks Anne
johanna Would Stay in Sweden.
Wichita Kan, Oct 19-In the shadow
of the fjords. one day in July, 1906 Jens
Peter Petersen kissed Anne Johanna
Petersen goodby in the real Swedl 81
faahion. When the steamer chugged
down the channel on its way to Sto TX
holm. where Jens was to take steamer
for America the land of promise, II
which he was to make a fortune. he
was lonesome. The only consolation he
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die horse, attempted to pass the two
highwaymen who stood a few feet
ahead of them.
AS he plunged past them and had
tired. The size of the shot was No. 5,
and Grunewald was tumbled to tho
horses neck, where he lay until he
reached his bachelor quarters.
Nothing was known of the holdup
until Robert Grunewald came to his
brother Williams house to secure Il
horse. Arriving at the bachelor quar-
ters, he found his brother lying half on
the bed and half off, in a deliriou5
condition and moaning to himself in
an inaudibIe tone.
The officers and physicians have no
clue to the would-be murderers ex-
cept the finding of several empty 12-
gauge shotgun shells and paper walls
at the scene of the holdup. Why Err
nest King did not notify anyone of the
shooting is a mystery which he himself
seems unable to explain.
AS many of the shot as possible
were picked from Grunewald's body
but many have penetrated the inter-
nal organs so far that death may re-
suit.
But for the heavy clothing which
the injured man was wearing at the
time, he would probably have been
killed. AS it was, many of the shots
penetrated the body six inches or
more, several lodging in the Kidneys
Mr. Grunewald after regaining con-
seriousness this morning. was unable TO
account for their knowledge of the
money in his possession unless they
had resided close by. His brother
William is of the opinion however.
that after the sale of the cattle, at
Kansas City, some one there had no
ticed the roll Of bills Robert had III
his possession and followed him home.
SERGEANT GETS GOOD JOB.
Fitness Shown by Test Results in His
Promotion.
Fit. Leavenworth, Kan, Oct. 10
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Fortunes in Faces.

There's often much truth in the saying
''her face is her fortune" but its never
said where pimples, skin eruptions,
blotches, or other blemishes disftgure IT..
Impure blood is back of them ALL and
shows the need of DIR. Kings New Life
Pills. They promote health and beauty.
Try them, % cents at Campbell Drug
Co--Adv
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SERGEANT GETS GOOD JOB.

Fitness Shown by Test Results in His
Promotion.
Fit. Leavenworth, Kan, Oct. 10
First Sergeant George A. Jahant,
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he'd was that in two or three years he

he'd was that in two or three years he
could send for Anne.
Peter landed in Ottawa. Kan, then
came to Sedgwick county. Since then
he has made money enough to bring
Anne to him. But where is Anne?
Jens wants to know. He is tired II
', a;ting, so filed suit for devorce against
her today in the district court.
His letters have been unanswered
although he has written Mrs Petersen
each month, since 1909. He alleges
that he doesn't believe his wife wants
to come to America. This country
suits him, SO he is willing to give up
his wife, rather than the country
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that the youthful pair found a way.
Should they be apprehended, it is be-
lieved. the brides father will attempt
t. have the marriage annulled, but the
Local police say they will not bother the
Couple again.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-08-02
SUCKERS STILL LIVE.

When +. 7. Barnum said the
public likes to be humbugged and
some one else that there was a
sucker born every minute-they
demonstrated their familiarity with
the situation.
Postmaster General Hitchcock
says that during the past year the
suckers of the country gave up
$l20, 600, 900 to the get-rich-ouick
takers. fhis was in the face of
the effort on the part of the postal
officials to put the concerns out of
business. What the grand total
would have been-but for the pro-
lection offerei-can only be mag
ined.
The federal government is aided
by the state and the city officials
and by private individuals all over
the country, in depressing the fax
ers. The yultures, however, seem
to prosper and multiply despite
the combined official action and the
warnings of the press.
One of the queer features of the
whole affair is that the dupes of
the get-rich-quick people are usual
ly frugal, careful, Woodworking
people. Most always they are sus-
picious of Legitimate enterprises
but when some alluring fake with
the promise of big interest comes
along they can't resist.
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NEED OF HELP Is URGENT.

Sou h Dakota farmers arr just
awakening to a full realization Of
the urgent need Of labor to help
garner the wonderful! crop now
practically al masn.it-. The
appeal going out i, more earnest
than any other call sent ouJ ~
this state for a decade past.
The great fields Of waving gram
in northeastern South Dakota zap
idly turning to gold. Preparation
is being made to harvest the crop,
a1d the deeper the farmers get into
the cutting, the more taey know
that help must be forthcoming if
they are to gather in all that the
soil has produced.
1t is therefore time for action.
The state must not lose any POI
ton Of its magnificent production
through lack Of labor. State and
municipal authorities, and CONNER
cial bodies should Immediately en-
list in the work of getting suf-
ticient hands into the fields to save
every acre, and to save the full
production Of every acre. The
country canuot afford to lose
through over-r;pe fields.
State Immigration Commissioner
Deets should enlist in the work of
producing the necessary help. City
councils should take the matter up.
Commercial clubs of every town
and city should at once boost along
the importation of labor.
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Supreme Court Has Caught Up.

Pierre, July 30.-Justice Whit
lng, OF the supreme court. leaves
tomorrow for a western trip, and
starts with a cleared calendar so
far as his assignment Of cases in
the supreme court is concerned
This is probably the first time in
the history of the court that any
Of the judges had his assignment
absolutely cleared, and while Judge
Whiting is in that class alone, all
IF the other judges are practically
up with their work, and On their
return from vacations will clear
the record before the commence
ment of the October term, which
they will start with no old cases
on the record.
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Notice of Partnership Dissolution
To Whom 1t May Concern:

~ HO'i NAo II
Take notice that the cO-partner-
ship formed by and between j. f.
Divine and j. r. Criger, engaged
in a general clothing business in
the Village of Marmarth, Billings
County, State of North Dakota,
and III the City of Mobridge, Wal
worth County, State of South Da-
kota, was by mutual agreement
dissolved on the 10th day Ct July.
1912. j. r. Criger retiring. All
liabilities and assets heretofore
contracted by the partnership are
assumed and taken over by j. f.
Divine who continues the former
business under the firm name of
j. +. Divine & Co. All Outstand-
ing accounts ard bills must lie set
tied for with j. +. Divine.
j. f. Divine,
j. r. Criger.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-08-02
Second Decade Of Aberdeen
Normal School.

Registration days Monday and
Tuesday, September 9th and 10th.
Opening day address, eleventh year
Wednesday, September 18th. a
practical institution for South Da-
kota young people Well selected
faculty and complete equipment
Flourishing normal and industrial
departments. Strong courses in
education, woodwork, metal work,
cooking. sewing, agriculture, book
keeping. shorthand, typewritipg,
etc. New training school building
in course Of construction. Write
now for catalogue containing out
line of the course Of study. Ad-
dress inquiries to the president.
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grizzly gray hair OF each temple.
Marston felt at liberty to gaze on it,
but not to read the letter. SO from the
picture he turned to the subscription.
The letter was signed Your grateful
friend, Sarah Sherwood"
Marston was satisfied to have open
ed the letter. There vas something so
pleasing in the ladyS face that ne felt
assured she would not blame him for
doing so. Virginia had evidently been
kind to her. He wondered what Vir-
ginia looked like. In fact, he wonder
ed whether she was young and fair or
a skinny old maid. He would have
liked to know what the ODD lady had
to feel grateful for. Blu none Of
these things could be known because
to read a private letter wa not to be
thought of.
He replaced the missive aInd the pho
tograph in the envelope anti, after or
dering his dinner at his club, sat down
at a table in the writing room and
wrote = brief note to Sarah Sherwood
StoIhS tho nc huu tdhch III NV ~
Of making a dead letter OH ce of him.
self that her letter might line sooner
reach its destination. This was all
that was required in the pres Misses, and
had he stopped here there would have
been nc story. But he was impelled to
say that he could not have helped see
ing the photograph which he presumed
to be a likeness of the sender of the
letter. If so, judging by the character
al expressed IN. the features. he had no
fear of being 'olamed for the. course he
had taken witch regard to its return.
Now, In th, first place, a etter from
a stranger written from a prominent
club has a standing. Club members
must pass Che ordeal of an election and
are suppose d to have some social posi-
ton. In tn e second place. a letter from
. man to q, woman including a compli-
ment Is Dot likely to pass umnoticed.
In the third place. a brief note of
thank fcom the recipient Of a favor
to the person who has conferred it Is
always tn order. The lady, who signed
herself sdrs. Sherwood. expressed warm
apprecis ltion Of Mr.. Marsson act,
which she referred to as a kindness.
But t9iss1aa not all. within q few
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An
EntranCinS
Portal
Ii Is Entered on the Wings
of Fancy
BY F. A. Mitchell

why don't You marry, John? 1t
seems to me that a man twenty-eight
years old, with "a good business and
money TO burn. should be following
the natural law
Marry. What do you take me for?
Do you know what matrimony
meanS:"
The two friends. John Marston and
Edward Taylor. had walked home to-
getber from business and had stopped
IN mt Taylor's home. The brief dia-
iogue took place while they were
standing before the sideboard. where
they were partaking of a little re-
freShment. After Marston's last as
aertiou he went on to his O 10
dress for the evening. On Il table lay
Il letter bearing the address Of Nir-
ginia Marston. 1t had evidently pass
ed through the hands of a number of
carriers, each one Of whom recon-
mended a new try"
Marston had no sisters. aunts or
cousins who We're named Virginia, and
there was no reason why he should
o send the letter on for another
try He threw it back on the table,
put on his evening clothes and was 20
ing out TO his club TO dine when he
noticed the letter and. taking it MP,
looked at it again. If it were handed
back 10 the carrier it would eventually
find its way TO the dead letter office to
be opened by a clerk. If it were for
any relative of his, why wouldn't it be
better that its contents should be ex-
posed TO Marston han to a stranger?
In any event. he could write on it
Opened by mistake by J ohm ID. Mars
ton He felt OF it, AMI there was
something stiff like p%astcboard in it.
Taking out his penknife. he slit the en-
velope and withdrew q letter and a
photograph.
The likeness was that of a very
pleasant looking old lady ta~stefully
dressed and with a couple of puffs Of
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Most Of the troubles OF coaven-
lions saws an editorial writer IL
tie Minneapolis Journal arse
from the fact that delegates 90 up
rs servants of certain candidates.
Instead of judges over all oaAdl-
dacieS. They are hobhlei by III.
structions, bound by unit rules.
bin led by partisan zeal. They
are not delegates in the proper
sense Of the word. Yet they can
he made delegates in every SENSE
of the term, if the people "lll 1t.
THIS would be accomplished if the
law forbade instructions OF any
kind. and the courts passed on
disputes DER tie election Of dele
gates. With instructions and con-
tests ont OF the way. the members
of conventions would be what they
are intended TO be, representatives.
of the people who elect them. Con-
ventiors thus formed would nine
times oct Of ten give Il better e
suit than primaries, which are
without feasibility and which tend
to throw the nomination to the
candidate who can muster the
greatest campaign fund.
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LESS BOWEL TROUBLE
in MOBRIDGE

Mobridge people have found out
that A SINGLE DOSE of simple
buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as
compounded in Adler-i-ka, the
German appendicitis remedy, re-
liexes constipation, sour stomach
or gas on the stomach INSTANT
LY. This simple mixture anti
septicizes the digestive organs and
draws off the impurities and it is
surprising how QUICKLY it
helps. Thamas Church, druggist
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Notice for Bids.

Notice is hereby given that seal
ed bids will be received by b. j.
Olson, clerk of Flora School Dis
trict, up to II O'Clock noon on Au-
gust 20, 1912, for furnishing the
necessary coal for the schools of
said district-coal to be delivered
to the schoolhOuses in the city.
The board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
Dated July %, 1912.
b. j. OLSON,
Clerk of Flora School
District No. 10.
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A few more days. and you may
hear the whistle of the threshing
engine rs it begins at daylight its
long grind in the fields of South
Dakota.